November 5th, 2008
by Jen deHaan
If you want to learn about new motion tweens in Flash, and you’re going to be at Adobe MAX, you’re in luck. I’ll be giving a short presentation as part of the QE team session, and we’ll be at the Flash birds of a feather session. This isn’t in the MAX session guide so I thought I’d blog about it so the two of you out there interested can read all about it.
More fascinating info after the jump.
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Posted in Adobe MAX, Flash CS4, Flash CS4: motion, Flash CS4: new features, General, animation, motion tween, presentations, tweens | 1 Comment »
September 23rd, 2008
by Jen deHaan
After spouting off about the benefits of the new motion model in Flash CS4, I thought I’d take a bunch of screenshots of Flash, most of which are showing new features and such. For all of the following photos, click the thumbnail to look at the full size photo.
More after the jump.
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Posted in Flash CS4, Flash CS4: motion, Flash CS4: new features, Migration, Motion Editor | 25 Comments »
April 9th, 2008
by Jen deHaan
Adobe DV guru Bob Donlon started and launched a great new site for watching video tutorials and presentations on Adobe.com called Adobe TV. Adobe TV is a site that is working to combine all of the various video resources that Adobe releases, so they’re housed in one central location. Please note that not all of the video tutorials available from Adobe are in there yet, but eventually they should all be there – so it’s like a one stop shop for learning about the products in video format. I find this pretty darn exciting, because last release I worked very hard on the Adobe Video Workshop and the Design Center for quite awhile (and of course have contributed many articles to the Developer Center) – and always knew that those resources among others are hard to find. So any steps to centralize resources and make them more discoverable is a pretty good thing as far as I’m concerned (although it doesn’t look like the Video Workshop videos are in there quite yet – I understand they will be though).
So go check it out! If you click through the “Designer” section, there are some videos on Flash. The site is also an interesting use of the technology itself.
Posted in General, Video | 3 Comments »
February 22nd, 2008
by Jen deHaan
So the world needs another Flash blog, that’s what I said. Hi. Welcome to yet another blog on Flash.
But hey, have you noticed a lot of blogs have gone from talking about Flash to talking about Flex? or Air? or… you know, things that aren’t Flash anymore and not nearly as cool and awesome as Flash?
So maybe the world DOES need another Flash blog!
Hi, I’m Jen deHaan (although a lot of people call me Jan DeHann) and I like Flash. I confess. So much so, I went back to the Flash team (I was on the Flash team as a doc writer, then left the Flash team to do instructional design for the web and video products, then came back to the Flash team because that’s where I belong. ) So two of you might be thinking “but didn’t she have a blog or something that she sort of abandoned?” Well, yeah. Actually I’ve had three blogs that I’ve abandoned. No no… four. Anyway, three of those other blogs were using old versions of Movable Type, and they’re kind of boring or outdated and I’m too lazy to make them look nice on my own. The fourth blog used Movable Type but it was for my old job I don’t do anymore. And I had this domain that is pretty wacky and hard to spell. So I guess that’s enough reasons… hey none of you are reading anymore!
OK, so on to some stuff about Flash. Flash AUTHORING, the original Flash. I hope that I won’t neglect the blog or anything. I’ll give it an honest go this time.
By the way, we’re working on some real cool things right now on the Flash team that you might have seen at the MAX sneak peeks! I’ll definitely talk about those things as soon as I’m allowed to.
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