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Adobe CS4 and Adobe Bordeaux… hmm. Very Interesting.
Just got a note from Adobe on this…. In addition to Thermo lowering the bar for Flex development, it looks as though Adobe has a tool coming out to compete with Swish, etc… Very cool!
Adobe Bordeaux is the codename for a new product for graphic designers, art directors, creative directors, and others who don’t need all the capabilities of Flash Professional and want to create flash content easily without knowing ActionScript or programming.
Bordeaux enables graphic designers to efficiently create site openers, rich media banners, microsites, portfolios, and other small-scale Flash projects. Art Directors and Creative Directors can use Bordeaux to add interactivitym motion, and video to Photoshop comps or InDesign layouts to create interactive moodboards and concepts, making it possible to communicate ideas more efectively to clients and design teams.
- Easily create buttons, menus, slideshows, video controllers and other interactive components
- Customise the look and behavior of interactive components included with Bordeaux
- Visually convert artwork to interactive elements without coding
- Trigger actions and events from markers you add to your video and audio
- Create multi-page microsites as easily as dragging and dropping
- Make objects and text move, spin, resize, reveal, slide, bounce, fade, and more without using keyframes or code
- Easily control how motion responds to mouse events
- Import, trim, and encode video files into FLV
- Add audio and trim and adjust levels
- Import native Photoshop files as layers
- Import InDesign files with pages and objects preserved as individual elements
- Output efficient SWF or Adobe AIR files
This sounds great to me. I have had a post or two on the topic of Flash’s learning curve being a bit high for the newbie. As an educator, I really like this. As a developer who has to get Flash .fla files with prepped art from designers who aren’t too AS savvy, I really like this… absolutely perfect. Hope it’s not too expensive.
Posted on December 18, 2007
Brett Dec 18
This is a terrible idea. Now every AD and CD will think they can design messy clusterf–k animation roughs and hand them off to a designer to integrate.
Dev Lord Dec 18
Bordeaux is really an excited product, but what is the difference between Bordeaux and Thermo ? They seems very similar to each other.
John Moats Dec 18
Is this going to be completely object oriented, or is there going to be a slimmed-down/full version of AS? They should call the new language Lingo… oh wait…
Bill Templeton Dec 18
Interesting news, Chad…can you post the note from Adobe?
Chad Dec 18
Bill, the note was really just pretty much what is posted above… it was part of a larger survey about products/release cycles/prices,etc… Just a little tidbit in there about Bordeaux. Found it very interesting, especially since there was no mention of it at any Max conference or FOTB, etc.
Sorry, I don’t have any more information than that, really… Maybe it will appear on Labs or an Adobe blog soon.
Pat Dec 18
I think this is a great idea. We were recently complaining that the learning curve for AS 3.0 is going to leave a lot of would-be developers out in the cold. It’s quite a bit different from previous versions.
Tim Dec 19
I think that AS3 is so much easier than AS2, as long as you already have a coding background. Its so much cleaner and easier to wrap your brain around.
However I could see how their would be a huge learning curve, and if the general masses don’t keep picking up flash and LOVING it… then guess what… all of us actionscript developers slowly become the equivalent of Lingo developers (hence we die out).
So it has to be really easy for the newb and really powerful for the !newb.
MJP Jan 12
if this is true. sounds like Adobe is bringing back LiveMotion in disguise!
Lance Jan 13
Sounds like a great app.
Brett: Sounds like you feel a little threatened by it. Embrace evolution.
anan Mar 13
Yes, Guys. I think this should interesting app. I’m working in PRT field, but I’m interesting in internet media as well and don’t want to start to learn programming