Author: Nick Hodge

More Stuff

OK here we go. 4 new products. 2 new versions of classics, and 2 completely new Adobe applications.

AfterEffects is for MacOS X 10.2, Windows 2000 or XP. The following applications are Windows only

  • Adobe Premiere Pro: more editing, less rendering. Picture in picture is way easier. (no more having to be a rocket scientist with Picture-in-Picture)
  • Adobe EncoreDVD: wow! this is a fun product; easily create DVDs
  • Adobe Audition: This is the result of Adobe’s purchase of Cool Edit Pro. I’ve been using this today to clean up some old audio tracks I had lying around. Wow.

Video (Windows Media Player 9) of the Sydney MINI2 Meet 18 May 03 here: MINI2 Video, 18th May 2003. Created with Adobe Premiere Pro, of course.

Adobe’s vision for the Enterprise: Intelligent Document Architecture

www.adobe.com facelift

Even www.adobe.com gets a facelift after a couple of years.

Wow! we do some great software. In Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 we added the ability to capture still frames from video footage files. Then using the Filter>Video>De-interlace, I could create half-decent still shots from moving footage!
The results are here at the bottom of Sydney MINI2 Meet 18 May 03

OK, I am very naughty. I have 42 days owing of PTO (holidays, vacation) which is 50% over the Adobe legal limit. Oops!

Phone works in the US

For the first time, and on my 20th trip to the US, my mobile phone works in this country. Woohoo! 19 of the 20 trips have occured in the last 10 years, which also about how long I have used a mobile phone. In that time, my phone has never worked here. India, UK, Singapore, NZ, Thailand – all OK. USA, no. I can even SMS!

Piha

Arrived in the US. Again. Managed to take a side trip on the way to Auckland airport to the prettiest place in the world: Piha, June 2003. This scenery is less than 1 hour away from Auckland International Airport.