Adobe Launches Director 11

Adobe Systems Inc. announced Adobe Director 11 software, a major upgrade to the company’s powerful multimedia authoring tool for building interactive applications and rich content.

“With the new Director 11, users can unleash their creative capabilities and broaden their market reach with less effort, producing more engaging multimedia applications in less time,” said Naresh Gupta, senior vice president at Adobe.

The latest release contains a flexible and easy-to-use authoring environment enabling multimedia authors, animators and developers to create powerful interactive applications, games, e-learning and simulation products.

With Director 11 or a combination of Director 11 and the Adobe Shockwave Player, users can author once and publish content for the Web, CDs/DVDs and the desktop simultaneously. Users are also allowed to add Adobe Flash SWF files to Director projects, play them in Director and Shockwave, and easily edit them with Adobe Flash CS3 Professional. In addition, Director 11 supports a wide variety of third-party add-ons creating the most extensible authoring environment possible.

“No other technology can deliver hardware-accelerated 3D entertainment on a Web page to as many people worldwide as Director and Shockwave,” said Gene Endrody, CEO and founder, MaidMarian.com.

Adobe Director 11 is expected to be available by the end of March 2008.