Comments on: Poll: Which Adobe product workflow is the most important to improve? http://madowney.com/blog/2006/02/16/poll-which-adobe-product-workflow-is-the-most-important-to-improve/ Mike Downey is the Principal Evangelist for Platform Business Development at Adobe Systems and focuses on Adobe's platform technologies including AIR, Flash, and Flex. This is his personal blog. The views expressed on this site are his and his alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of Adobe Systems, it's employees or partners in any way. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:21:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Roman Laney http://madowney.com/blog/2006/02/16/poll-which-adobe-product-workflow-is-the-most-important-to-improve/#comment-1681 Roman Laney Thu, 23 Mar 2006 06:08:21 +0000 http://madowney.com/blog/?p=201#comment-1681 Anyone want Flash workflow to move towards other Adobe apps instead of the other way around? The Flash environment is my first stop in a long line of apps to get my final product. Sure I use Flash inproperly ( tv animation) but man does Flash make it difficult to export artwork to illustrator, and is iffy beyound belief when exporting any thing above the standard 72 dpi. A perfect export to Illustrator, Photoshop and After Effects, including all layers, would be amazing! That's where I would really like to see some improvements. Anyone want Flash workflow to move towards other Adobe apps instead of the other way around? The Flash environment is my first stop in a long line of apps to get my final product. Sure I use Flash inproperly ( tv animation) but man does Flash make it difficult to export artwork to illustrator, and is iffy beyound belief when exporting any thing above the standard 72 dpi. A perfect export to Illustrator, Photoshop and After Effects, including all layers, would be amazing! That’s where I would really like to see some improvements.

]]> By: Nick http://madowney.com/blog/2006/02/16/poll-which-adobe-product-workflow-is-the-most-important-to-improve/#comment-1680 Nick Thu, 02 Mar 2006 11:57:32 +0000 http://madowney.com/blog/?p=201#comment-1680 NOt only is workflow in it's widest sense important, but if you take the close integration between Captivate and Flash, where the import of the project brings all components e.g. tweens and such - imagine the possibilities if flash could take in a After Effects project in the same way! This just has got to be done! NOt only is workflow in it’s widest sense important, but if you take the close integration between Captivate and Flash, where the import of the project brings all components e.g. tweens and such - imagine the possibilities if flash could take in a After Effects project in the same way! This just has got to be done!

]]> By: Mike Downey http://madowney.com/blog/2006/02/16/poll-which-adobe-product-workflow-is-the-most-important-to-improve/#comment-1679 Mike Downey Wed, 22 Feb 2006 06:30:27 +0000 http://madowney.com/blog/?p=201#comment-1679 This is true, Josh. We have the Flash authoring team (my team), the Flash Player team, the mobile Player team, the Flex framework team, the Flex Server team, the Flex Builder team, the Apollo team, etc, etc. It's a big project. :) This is true, Josh. We have the Flash authoring team (my team), the Flash Player team, the mobile Player team, the Flex framework team, the Flex Server team, the Flex Builder team, the Apollo team, etc, etc. It’s a big project. :)

]]> By: Josh Tynjala http://madowney.com/blog/2006/02/16/poll-which-adobe-product-workflow-is-the-most-important-to-improve/#comment-1678 Josh Tynjala Tue, 21 Feb 2006 22:28:37 +0000 http://madowney.com/blog/?p=201#comment-1678 People need to realize that there are a LOT of people working on Flash, in several (I assume) different teams. They're still working on speed improvements and all that in the player, but a completely different team handles working in the IDE and integrating with other programs and formats. Flash is a big project with many different parts. People need to realize that there are a LOT of people working on Flash, in several (I assume) different teams. They’re still working on speed improvements and all that in the player, but a completely different team handles working in the IDE and integrating with other programs and formats. Flash is a big project with many different parts.

]]> By: John Dowdell http://madowney.com/blog/2006/02/16/poll-which-adobe-product-workflow-is-the-most-important-to-improve/#comment-1677 John Dowdell Mon, 20 Feb 2006 18:46:21 +0000 http://madowney.com/blog/?p=201#comment-1677 whoops, looks like the markup didn't go through... was supposed to read "One of the biggest differences was supposed to have been addressed in Firefox 1.5", with this link: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/emmy/archives/2005/11/firefox_15_avai.cfm whoops, looks like the markup didn’t go through… was supposed to read “One of the biggest differences was supposed to have been addressed in Firefox 1.5″, with this link:
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/emmy/archives/2005/11/firefox_15_avai.cfm

]]> By: John Dowdell http://madowney.com/blog/2006/02/16/poll-which-adobe-product-workflow-is-the-most-important-to-improve/#comment-1676 John Dowdell Mon, 20 Feb 2006 18:45:17 +0000 http://madowney.com/blog/?p=201#comment-1676 "How about tackling the HUGE speed problem with the browser plugin on OS X first?" Nero, how does your machine do if you shut down the browsers and open in a Projector? This could tell us whether it's the Player, or the Player/browser interaction, which you're suffering with there. (One of the biggest differences was supposed to have been addressed, but the final reports on the Bugzilla entry suggest that it may not be a complete solution.) “How about tackling the HUGE speed problem with the browser plugin on OS X first?” Nero, how does your machine do if you shut down the browsers and open in a Projector? This could tell us whether it’s the Player, or the Player/browser interaction, which you’re suffering with there.

(One of the biggest differences was supposed to have been addressed, but the final reports on the Bugzilla entry suggest that it may not be a complete solution.)

]]> By: Mike Downey http://madowney.com/blog/2006/02/16/poll-which-adobe-product-workflow-is-the-most-important-to-improve/#comment-1675 Mike Downey Mon, 20 Feb 2006 06:42:33 +0000 http://madowney.com/blog/?p=201#comment-1675 Hi Nero - I must admit that I haven't heard any complaints that Flash Player 8 is half as fast as Flash Player 7 on OS X. In fact, with the OpenGL optimizations that we did in Flash Player 8 we've seen as much as a 30% improvement in graphics rendering on the Mac. That said, the Player team continuously focuses on performance improvements with every release and continues to make significant progress. The next release of Flash Player, Flash Player 8.5, includes a new ActionScript Virtual Machine (AVM2) which, when combined with ActionScript 3.0, can improve script execution performance by as much as 10x. You can check out the early alpha of Flash Player 8.5 for the Mac at http://labs.adobe.com. Thanks, MD Hi Nero -

I must admit that I haven’t heard any complaints that Flash Player 8 is half as fast as Flash Player 7 on OS X. In fact, with the OpenGL optimizations that we did in Flash Player 8 we’ve seen as much as a 30% improvement in graphics rendering on the Mac.

That said, the Player team continuously focuses on performance improvements with every release and continues to make significant progress. The next release of Flash Player, Flash Player 8.5, includes a new ActionScript Virtual Machine (AVM2) which, when combined with ActionScript 3.0, can improve script execution performance by as much as 10x.

You can check out the early alpha of Flash Player 8.5 for the Mac at http://labs.adobe.com.

Thanks,
MD

]]> By: Nero http://madowney.com/blog/2006/02/16/poll-which-adobe-product-workflow-is-the-most-important-to-improve/#comment-1674 Nero Mon, 20 Feb 2006 04:58:47 +0000 http://madowney.com/blog/?p=201#comment-1674 How about tackling the HUGE speed problem with the browser plugin on OS X first? Then we can work on more features that I'll never use. You guys are making Flash so very complicated, and guys like me who rely on raw speed (I'll admit bitmap caching was a godsent) are getting screwed just because the standalone player can fly and the brower plugin runs about half as fast as 7's in OS X. How about tackling the HUGE speed problem with the browser plugin on OS X first? Then we can work on more features that I’ll never use. You guys are making Flash so very complicated, and guys like me who rely on raw speed (I’ll admit bitmap caching was a godsent) are getting screwed just because the standalone player can fly and the brower plugin runs about half as fast as 7’s in OS X.

]]> By: Mike Downey http://madowney.com/blog/2006/02/16/poll-which-adobe-product-workflow-is-the-most-important-to-improve/#comment-1673 Mike Downey Fri, 17 Feb 2006 07:12:46 +0000 http://madowney.com/blog/?p=201#comment-1673 Lalo - Good question. We do have a few plans to improve the Premiere Pro to Flash workflow but the scope of the work is fairly straight forward. The more complex workflows are present in PS, AI, AE, and FB. The level of integration that we support can go pretty deep with these products so we want to get a feel for which are the most important to users. Thanks, MD Lalo -

Good question. We do have a few plans to improve the Premiere Pro to Flash workflow but the scope of the work is fairly straight forward. The more complex workflows are present in PS, AI, AE, and FB. The level of integration that we support can go pretty deep with these products so we want to get a feel for which are the most important to users.

Thanks,
MD

]]> By: Mike Downey http://madowney.com/blog/2006/02/16/poll-which-adobe-product-workflow-is-the-most-important-to-improve/#comment-1672 Mike Downey Fri, 17 Feb 2006 07:10:49 +0000 http://madowney.com/blog/?p=201#comment-1672 Graeme - I agree, it is pretty ugly. However, it's REALLY easy to use. If you know of a better-looking polling app that just spits out some HTML that I paste into my blog post as I did with this one let me know. Maybe I should contact the BlugFlux guys to see if they'd be interested in prettying up their polling app with Flash... MD Graeme -

I agree, it is pretty ugly. However, it’s REALLY easy to use. If you know of a better-looking polling app that just spits out some HTML that I paste into my blog post as I did with this one let me know.

Maybe I should contact the BlugFlux guys to see if they’d be interested in prettying up their polling app with Flash…

MD

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