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April 30, 2007

Adobe Media Player Links

I think I received about 3x the number of questions about Adobe Media Player than anything else I talked about in my NAB post, so instead of trying to re-hash the press release, I've concentrated on gathering some links to the news that came from our preview.

Hopefully browsing through these links will give you a better idea of what Adobe Media Player is all about than me trying to explain it for a few paragraphs.

Posted by Hart Shafer at 05:15 PM | | Comments (3)

April 25, 2007

Guest Blogging with Jim Guerard

Jim Guerard, our VP of product management for Dynamic Media (Flash, audio, video, Adobe Media Player, and more) at Adobe joined Cynthia Wisehart as a guest blogger on Digital Content Producer. Jim doesn't keep his own blog (something about already having too many irons in the fire--we'll let him off the hook this time) so it's fun to see him posting and talking directly about what we've been up to. It's worth a read for the high-level take on where Dynamic Media at Adobe is coming from and where it's going. A quick quote:

From a distribution standpoint you can ‘create once’ in this extensive, cross platform environment–editing, digital audio, motion graphcs, etc. and then take it to film–as Rob Legato and Ron Ames do for Scorsese, or Stu does at The Orphanage–or take it to broadcast as the BBC will be doing, or to disc, blu-ray, and of course Flash.

By the way, Cynthia's offhand reference to the BBC at the start is in reference to a decision to make Production Premium CS3 the video editing package of choice on all their Windows systems! I've worked with the BBC for a long time on the radio side of things with Audition, and it's really exciting to see them adopt the whole Adobe video solution for their productions. The amount of material they put through their edit bays every week just boggles the mind.

Posted by Hart Shafer at 05:29 PM | | Comments (0)

CS3 New on Labs!

I just realized that my post that was supposed to go up last Monday, well, didn't. The big news is that we have new preview releases up on the Adobe Labs site! Posted as of Monday the 16th (all in Mac and Win versions) are:

For those of you who are curious to get your hands on what's new, or want to have the thrill of running Premiere Pro on your Mac for the first time, should go check them out.

Posted by Hart Shafer at 03:50 PM | | Comments (1)

Back From NAB

I'm back and just starting to dig out from under the backlog from last week. It was positively the busiest and most fun NAB I've ever had. For those of you who missed out on the fun we've posted a few on-demand video webcasts. The first two videos are from our Monday night event and show a demo of the CS3 apps as well as a preview of the new Adobe Media Player. The other videos are interviews with some of the Dynamic Media staff straight off the show floor talking about some of our announcements.

The Adobe Media Player was the great surprise of the show for many people. We had announced this project (codename Philo) back at the MAX conference last October and it had kind of flown under the radar. Or, for folks (like me) who saw it just greeted it with a "huh." and moved on. But with the preview the excitement from the content creators in the audience was palpable on the show floor as they saw what this could mean for them. I was watching the demos with the rest of the audience and was personally excited that I might have an easy way to put my TV shows on my laptop for travel some time soon. :)

My other observation of the show that I wanted to point to was already written about by Steve here. The number of podcasters, vloggers, bloggers, and other "new media" types covering the show was boggling. I"m not sure if it means a virtualization of trade shows, but it sure does make a lot easier to keep up on what happened even if you didn't attend. On that note, there's been a ton written about Adobe at NAB and I'll try to link to some of it soon.

Posted by Hart Shafer at 03:43 PM | | Comments (0)

April 12, 2007

Next up, NAB

If you're going to be joining 100,000+ of your closest friends at NAB in Vegas next week, make sure to stop by Adobe's booth (SL3220, where we were last year) to check out all the newness. We'll have our theater showing demos all day, and 12 demo stations where you can see the new versions up close and ask all your burning questions. Plus, we'll have a some things to talk about besides the CS3 releases (gasp, what could they be! How exciting!)

I'll be around all week and working the Audition/Soundbooth demo station for parts of Wednesday and Thursday. Make sure to stop by the booth and say hi if you can!

Posted by Hart Shafer at 09:48 AM | | Comments (1)

April 03, 2007

Soundbooth Writeups

I have another few couple of blog posts for the roundup and your reading pleasure.

First, from CreateDigitalMusic.com, a summary of the launch details for Soundbooth and their take on summarizing our comparison between Soundbooth and Audition.

Second, a short blog post that I happened to like the title of. :)

Posted by Hart Shafer at 03:02 PM | | Comments (1)

Looping Tutorial From EventDV

Over at EventDV.net, Louisa Winters has posted a great walkthrough tutorial showing how to create some music for your projects using the loops and looping features in Audition 2.0. If you're a videographer who is looking for a quick leg-up on using that part of Audition, it's a great read.

Also, looking at what Louisa had written led me to this how-to on Audition's noise reduction capabilities.

Posted by Hart Shafer at 11:56 AM | | Comments (0)