Hart's Dynamic Media Blog

I've been pretty remiss in posting some links lately--next week I plan on a link roundup, but for now I wanted to post a really cool customer story around Superman Returns that I've been meaning to link to for a while. The short version is that the Adobe Production Studio was used extensively in production, especially for effects and color work. Specifically, Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects Professional, Illustrator CS2, and Photoshop CS2 were used throughout the production. The full story is posted here.

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Digital Pro Sound has posted a nice overview of how the AutoComposer in Soundbooth works. AutoComposer is designed so that you can customize Soundbooth Scores to match the mood you're looking for (not to mention the length) and Frank Moldstead walks through the basics while using one of the beta scores we've posted as his example.

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It's been a good day for the awards (or, rather, for me finding out about the awards). First, I just learned that the February 2007 issue of Videomaker Magazine picked Audition for Best Audio Editing Software and Encore DVD for Best DVD Authoring Software!

Also, digitalcontentproducer.com, which is the joint web site for Video Systems and Millimeter magazines, has awarded both Adobe Production Studio and DV Rack with their Vanguard 2006 award. In their own words, "The Vanguard Awards honor groundbreaking yet practical products that were introduced in calendar year 2006."

(By the way, I haven't mentioned it before but for those of you who shoot a lot of video, you owe it to yourselves to check out DV Rack. It allows you to capture direct to disc in the field, complete with scopes and other great shot-management tools. It is one of the great tools Adobe acquired with Serious Magic last October.)

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Well, Macworld was a blast--Premiere Pro and Photoshop both won best of show! It was a lot of fun to be at the show with our Mac plans out in the public. Every time we showed the Production Studio running on a Mac we had a crowd that was standing room only, back to the back wall, and the response was overwhelming. We also had a great time showing Soundbooth on one of the demo stations all day. We got some great feedback and some even better suggestions. Good times!

Other than that, it was fun to be there for the iPhone madness--with the way people crushed in on it with cameras flashing while it was rotating under glass it was like the Louvre unveiled a new Van Gough. I'm interested to get my hands on it sometime. I do a lot of email from my Treo, so I'm suspicious of the on-screen keyboard, but the iPod features sure looked compelling. It's probably just as well... I doubt the $500 or $600 would fly past my better half. :) As for the actual video-related Apple announcement, I think iTV would be a whole lot more compelling to me if it recorded something. I'm still just not interested in buying 320x240 video. If it were a bit higher rez and had some sort of "rental" model for the movies and I'd probably be hooked. Still, it's yet another sign of the wave: broadcast is on its way down and just about all other video delivery is on its way up.

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Adobe has a series of free online seminars coming up later in January and February. The topics are:

• Possibilities + Productivity 101 with Production Studio
  
• Design 101 for After Effects and Flash
  
• After Effects 101 for the Adobe Premiere Pro User
  
• Dynamic Link and Clip Notes in Adobe Production Studio
  
• Discover New Features 101 in Adobe Premiere Pro and DV Rack HD
  
• After Effects 102 for the Adobe Premiere Pro User
  
• Open HD: Practical Production Formats for One Edit and Unlimited Deliverables
  
• Audio Production for Video Pros and Interactive Designers
  

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A very happy new year to you all. As cliched as it seems, last night as I was checking in on my email, getting together a few things, and generally getting ready to come back from a nice holiday, I was thinking about everything that this year would bring and I couldn't help but get excited by what a great year it's going to be here at Adobe. So much in the wings, and so much to do to make it all happen. It's thrilling.

But--first thing's first. This week I'm diving back into getting ready for Macworld. This will be my first real trip to Macworld. Last year I happened to be in San Francisco on other business and simply stopped by for a few minutes, but this is the first year I'll be attending the whole show. If you are planning on attending, make sure to stop by the Adobe booth to check out the demos of Soundbooth. We'll have a demo station for it, as well as ones for the Lightroom and Photoshop CS3 betas, and some great theater presentations of other Adobe magic (wooOOoo).

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