As was somewhat expected, Director is entirely missing from Adobe Max 2007. Always a dissapointment. Our company was hoping to use the “send 3 for the price of 2″ special, but it now looks like it will be a send no one, spend nothing conference.
In recent blog posts a new version (and future versions) were mentioned by key people from Adobe, but it is just always frustrating that the product is entirely ignored by Macromedia (and now Adobe).
4 comments June 20th, 2007
Want to learn a bit more about Director? Adobe is offering an eSeminar this week (June 20) and next month (July 24). From the Adobe site:
Please join us for a live, interactive, one-hour online seminar to learn how Director MX 2004 from Adobe is being used to quickly create online and downloadable games, multimedia training and educational content and multimedia applications.
They will answer questions about how Director can help you:
3 comments June 17th, 2007
I talked about using Director in a session at the eLearning Guild 2007 Conference last week and it was announced (by Rick Jones from Adobe) that there will be an update for Vista later this month in the Shockwave Plug-in. Several sessions talked about using Director for Immersive Learning Simulations (ILS), particularly for the multiuser web-based content.
I’m keeping my fingers crossed that a MacIntel version will show up before the school year starts. At least a beta version over on Adobe Labs.
A few more thoughts from the conference later this week.
2 comments April 17th, 2007
This week the Game Developers Conference is going on in San Francisco. If you are there you should drop by booth number 857 WH to chat with some Director folks and talk about the product announcement. Hanford Lemoore will also be at the GDC, and will be taking part in a session on March 8 (Thursday). Don’t miss it!
Next month the e-Learning Guild will be holding their 2007 Annual Gathering. Adobe will also be at that one to talk about Director. I’ll be there to chat about ExploreLearning does with Director. Stay tuned for more info on the session. I think my voice already got recorded and put up there. I haven’t been brave enough to listen. Phones and me…not always the best situation. I’d much rather be in front of a class, or digging through some Lingo 
Add comment March 5th, 2007
Developers continue to wait for a MacIntel-compatible version of the Shockwave Plug-in and Director. Adobe has stated that they are working on this issue. The Intel-Macs were introduced more than a year ago (Jan 10, 2006) and I continue to look at stats to see what percentage of users are running MacIntels (I use Google Analytics for stats).
January was the first month where the percentage of hits on this site from MacIntels beat up on the old school PPCs. 55% of the Mac hits on this site were MacIntels. It is clear that the number of MacIntels is rapidly rising in the development sector, and I was rather surprised that the number has gone up as quickly as it has.
On some other sites I’m associated with the percentage of Macs that are Intel-based varies from 1% to 10%. In my office 50% of our Macs are now Intel-based (at least those that are in use…we never want to throw a Mac away…like my PowerBook 1400).
I’m still patiently waiting for the Universal Binary version of the plug-in. Please. Pretty please.
7 comments February 12th, 2007
The new Adobe icons have left a few people feeling a on the periodic table side of life, so one group has decided to run a contest to design a new set of icons for the Adobe Creative Suite.
Maybe one of us Director-centrists could create a new icon and we’ll just throw Director in the Creative Suite Bundle from now on.
Add comment January 31st, 2007
I know I’m late to posting about this, but…the new Adobe icons for the next generation of products was revealed back in December.
When I saw this the first thing I thought about was a periodic table of the elements (particularly the circular form of the table).
While looking around for the circular form, I found a site that has a nice periodic spiral that was created in Director (just click on the pretty picture).
If you can’t figure out what every icon represents there is a nice page at Flickr that has a note attached to each icon. How many of the Adobe icons also represent chemical elements? At a casual glance I see 7…but I could be wrong. Why seven? Is that for luck? Now I need to think of a cool chemical name for Di.
7 comments January 12th, 2007
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