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Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro Launched

Adobe launched the new version of its web conferencing and virtual classroom solution Acrobat Connect Pro, previously known as Breeze at Macromedia. There are many breakthrough features in this release, especially when it comes to virtual classrooms.
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Adobe Announced Open Screen Project

Adobe announced the establishment of Open Screen Project, which is dedicated at driving rich Internet experiences across televisions, personal computers, mobile devices, and consumer electronics. This initiative is supported by a group of world industry leaders, including Cisco, Intel, LG Electronics Inc., Motorola, Nokia, Sony Ericsson and many others.
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Flash Media Encoder 2.5 Released with H.264 Encoding

Adobe released version 2.5 of the Flash Media Encoder, a free live video encoder which connects to Flash Media Server 3 or a compatible CDN to broadcast live Flash video streams in high quality. Apart from H.264 support the software also supports the commercial AAC Audio Encoder Plug-in, rounding off the capability to deliver high quality live webcasts in Flash. Read More

Adobe Leads High-Quality Raw Video Format Initiative

Adobe is leading a joint initiative to develop a specification that will eventually lead to a file format for higher image quality.

The company states that users can do better with the quality of digital video images. It is also developing a way to search on the audio within video clips.

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Adobe Media Player 1.0 Released with Adobe TV

Adobe launched the first public version of its Media Player (AMP) software, a desktop Flash video manager that organizes streaming and downloadable video content. AMP runs on Adobe's cross browser Adobe Integrate Runtime (AIR), and can display high res videos in 1080p, 720p or 480i.

"It's a merger of TV Guide and DVR for Internet video content," said John Loiacono, senior vice president of Creative Solutions at Adobe, in a press release.

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Adobe rewrites terms of Photoshop Express

Adobe revised the terms of service for Photoshop Express, its recently-launched web version of the popular photo-editing software.
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Photoshop CS4: 64-bit-ready

Adobe announced their plans to ship the next version of Photoshop as 64-bit-native for Windows 64-bit OSes only.

"In the interest of giving customers guidance as early as possible, we have some news to share on this point: in addition to offering 32-bit-native versions for Mac OS X and 32-bit Windows, just as we do today, we plan to ship the next version of Photoshop as 64-bit-native for Windows 64-bit OSes only," says John Nack from Adobe. 

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Lightroom 2 beta Available

Adobe released the public beta of Lightroom 2, allowing the the photographic community to provide feedback on new features and workflow enhancements. The new version comes with many enhancements on localized corrections, organizational tools, package functionality and more.

Lightroom 2.0 beta is a workflow application that allows photographers to quickly work with raw format images. With Lightroom they can manage all of their photographs; showcase them in print, dynamic slideshows, and interactive Web galleries that are a simple to produce.

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Flex 4 announced

Adobe announced that Flex 4, codenamed Gumbo, is now beginning active development. The product plan is not yet complete, but a few themes are under consideration. Read More

Adobe Photoshop Express Launched

Adobe released Adobe Photoshop Express, a Web-based version of Photoshop for editing pictures. It is in public beta and anyone can sign up.

"It is a showcase of what is the best that can be done with Flex and Flash. Hopefully, it will inspire other developers. We are also setting up a hosted services platform that we can expand to other products," said Doug Mack, the vice president in charge of Photoshop Express.

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