Tuesday 19 Feb 2008 - 10:10
Adobe has announced Director 11 software, the first major upgrade to the multimedia authoring tool since the company acquired the software along with the rest of Macromedia's portfolio back in May 2005.
The latest release contains what Adobe calls 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 Shockwave Player, users can author once and publish content for the Web, CDs/DVDs and the desktop simultaneously. This environment is designed to complement Adobe’s ecosystem of creative products, enabling users to add 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 an extensible authoring environment. Director 11 also enables content creators to localize applications through Unicode, create new levels of lifelike motion in games and simulations with the Ageia PhysX physics engine, and deliver more engaging experiences with enhanced text and native 3D rendering.
Director 11 also boasts new features including support for Adobe Flash 9 technology and bitmap filters to simplify adding characteristics, such as shadowing or glow, to text or images. The product offers language support with both JavaScript and Lingo — the native scripting language of Director — for programming in more than one language, as well as an enhanced script browser to save programming time by breaking out the code and code snippets with drag and drop capability.
Adobe Director 11 is expected to be available by the end of March 2008 for £705 plus VAT for the full product and £209 plus VAT for an upgrade from the prior three versions. The product runs Mac OS X 10.4 on Intel Macs, and Windows XP/Vista. Support for Mac OS X 10.5 has not be confirmed by Adobe at the time of writing.
Digital Arts Staff
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