Tuesday, October 18, 2005

MAX Conference : Day 2

Just got out of a general session where Macromedia was showing off its latest products and marching out some of its 3rd party developers. Adobe was here to show how Adobe After Effects will integrate with Flash, and it was pretty cool. The presenter took a Quicktime movie, created an alpha channel to remove the background from a moving figure with AE, then imported it into Flash, where he could mouse around the movie and change the background color in real time as the movie was playing. Very cool. Took a class this morning that showed off Captivate (formerly Robodemo) which was pretty interesting and useful for my job in making interactive training programs. Also took a class showcasing the next generation of ActionScript for Flash. Won't be coming up for a while, thank god. I was just getting semi-proficient in ActionScript 2. Was fun seeing the future, though. Looks like that aspect of Flash is just going to get more complicated but hopefully I can get my job to send me to classes. My next workshops today are for SCORM-Compliant eLearning Content with Flash and Captivate, Flash Game Development (which should be fun) and Advanced ActionScript 2.0. Then I gotta motor back to Hollywood for a Talent To Go workshop tonight with John. Should be fun, although I'm gonna need a major caffeine boost shortly.

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