CS3 Rocks Northern UK; rolls onward to MAX Barcelona
We all came down to Edinburgh (montreux), on the Firth of Forth (lake geneva) shoreline
A famous quote from Deep Purple, of course. ;) But the song from which it came is "Smoke On The Water"...and WE (the evangelists, including CSS Goddess, Stephanie Sullivan) were smokin'...Smokin' Hot with firey CS3 presentations, that is! (my, how humble of you to say! lol)
The Creative License tour re-commenced on Tuesday 9 October in Edinburgh, and the turn-out was phenomenal. Great crowd, great Q&A, and a very high-end saavy crowd, well on their way to becoming proficient CS3 experts! The same could be said for Newcastle two days later, where Karl Soule and I delivered the CS3 Production Premium story (using or new AQUO Beach Tour 2007 assets) continued to garner great reactions and responses to the new features in CS3, but primarily, showcasing our truly integrated, seamless production workflow between applications. We were also blessed with some pretty decent weather, so for a change, we actually got to 'see' a little bit of Scotland on Wednesday, and even took some groovy photos (see below).
Just landed, @ the hotel, and feelin' mighty greasy (but workin' it!)
Ummm....Castles...History: photo courtesy of Karl
Show me the way to the next Whisky Bar: Jase, Stef & Greg
Indeed, I was rather camera-happy upon arrival, as my laptop bag decided to barf & die (see Exhibit A) and Karl arrived in Edinburgh with 1 of 2 bags (bag #2 to arrive two days later! doh!). In any event, I took a little movie with my new Canon camera, from the taxi. Looking a little rough, perhaps, but that's the life...;)
Busted Laptop Bag or Dalek?
So now, with our portion of Creative License complete, we're off to MAX Europe, held in lovely Barcelona. The evangelists (myself, Greg Rewis, John Schuman, Rufus Deuchler & Karl Soule) will all be conducting CS3 training sessions (as mentioned earlier) and several other workflow sessions (some hands-on, some demo only). But if nothing else, and if you *are* attending MAX, please be sure to check out the Evangelist challenge. It was a real blast in Chicago (I know...I'm repeating...but sincerely, we had 'such' a good time!) and we can't wait to do it again. What's really so cool about the Evangelist challenge is that all the material(s) we're showing were in fact created BY US! That's cool. And again, it showcases not only our love for evangelizing the products, but our true dedication to being 'users' ourselves. But you knew that already, didn't you??
On an unrelated note, many people have been asking about Audition 3 (*not* Audition CS3, as some had incorrectly heard). Audition 3 will be out before the end of the year, and again, includes lots of great new features specific to music production: VSTi (virtual instrument support), MIDI Sequencing (with all the usual expected bits, piano roll editor, quantize/humanize, step-record, etc), New Spectral Tools including the *true* Adobe Photoshop Healing Brush (even has the same icon!!) as well as the Adobe Photoshop Paint Brush. You really won't believe your eyes when you*see* what you can do...WITH YOUR EYES! Audio mastering and restoration has become a visual medium (and as someone who has been doing it and evangelizing the concept for years now, I'll take some credit for spreading that word ;)) but it's true. If you understand some basic principles in Photoshop, you can truly leverage that knowledge to do incredibly complex restoration in Audition (and SBCS3, for that matter) without being an audio expert. Simply brilliant. However, the more (audio) you know, the further you can go.
Ok, that's going to be it for now. I was actually going to detail some additional road stories about us all taking the train, flight delays, and the usual airport chaos...but that just seemed way too uninspiring ;) Some other time, I suppose.
So, until Barcelona (starting tomorrow), I'll bid you farewell, and as always...
Blog on.