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The newest version of the Pixel Bender Toolkit has been released on Adobe Labs. This is pre-release 6, but it is also version 1.5. This new version includes the ability to edit, compile and run Pixel Bender Graphs (supported in Photoshop and After Effects). It also has a number of bug fixes, specifically in areas around PBJ generation.

You can get it from the Pixel Bender Technology area on Adobe Labs, and please let us know about any issues or suggestions for the next release in our forums, our Adobe Group or on twitter.

My team is hiring! We're looking for a white-box QE with C++ and scripting experience.

For more information: http://cooljobs.adobe.com/frameset.html?goto=er-viewjob&refnode=440636

Brian Ronan, a developer on the AIF team has just started a new blog specifically on developing Hydra kernels. Hopefully, he'll make up some of my ample posting slack...

Some news, the long-promised technology preview 2 of the AIF Toolkit is nearing completion. Just ironing out the last few minor bugs and testing the installer now. This release will feature the final syntax of the Hydra 1.0 kernel language. Since my last post we've added a couple things to the language to make it more capable for advanced video and image application usage. I'll post more details and some tips and tricks when the new version is posted.

Stay tuned because we still have some really large surprises around Hydra to announce between now and the official release...

So, I was hoping to get out a new version of the toolkit before the end of last year. One that would support all platforms. The good news is that it is pretty much done. I decided to wait on a couple features that the team was finishing up and that pushed it out a bit. I'm doing the final cleanup and the team is fixing a couple bugs that we found and then I'll get it out ASAP. So not too much longer now... Sorry for the delay.

Hey all, I'm still getting out from under the mountains of mail I received during the MAX conference, so I'll be posting more on MAX and Hydra (tons of blog postings in the community!) soon. In the meantime, I wanted to let you know that we've posted our slides from our talk at MAX as a PDF. Download it here.

I'll be posting the code that I wrote live on the stage to the labs wiki soon.

The AIF team is having a coming out party at MAX and all of you are invited! Bob Archer and I will be speaking on Wednesday on from 3pm to 4pm.

Image and Video Processing using Adobe Image Foundation's Toolkit for Flash

Kind of a boring title, but we're engineers, and I promise the talk will be pretty exciting. Especially after you see the Keynote presentations...

"Discover a new language for image and video processing (developed by Adobe Image Foundation) that will soon be available on Adobe Labs. In this session, we will demonstrate tools for writing and testing the language, explain how to write efficient algorithms, and share examples of the possibilities for development. We'll also show how these tools were used to create some of the video processing effects shipping in Adobe After Effects CS3."

I want to talk more, but I don't want to ruin the surprises that we have in store. If you are at MAX, come by and say "Hi!" I'll be around all 3 days, there is plenty of stuff for me to see too! Also, I grew up in Chicago, so I can tell you where to get the good pizza and char dogs.

So, I've been quiet on this blog for a while because my team has been working on some new technologies and I didn't want to say anything until we went public. As I mentioned in my previous post, the first version of our project is shipping in After Effects 8. We're doing an advanced hardware-accelerated image and video processing library called the Adobe Image Foundation.

Now, we are looking for someone who wants to write filters for the world's best imaging company. For this position, we are looking for a very senior person, PhD-level or extensive industry experience. If this describes you or someone you know, check out the link below:
http://cooljobs.adobe.com/frameset.html?goto=er-viewjob&erjob=60804&eresc=ER

Now that the cat is out of the bag, so to speak, I hope to resume posting a little bit more.