Lets play a game: What do you expect to see in CS8?

[Angelo Lorenzo]

It’s that time of year again, give or take a few weeks Adobe will release a new version of Creative Suite if they hold to their promised released schedule. I’ve heard rumors of a jump straight to CS7, but that’s purely speculation.

Bugs and small nuisances aside, in a perfect world what kind of groundbreaking technology would you like to see in CS8? Adobe brought us warp stabilizer, audio auto align in Audition, and all kinds of amazing stuff we use on a daily basis as creatives. What does the future hold?

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[Shane Ross]

I think Adobe will skip CS7 and CS8 altogether and come out with CS-X! Do away with pesky things like “timelines” and tape capture…

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[Alex Udell]

Shane…yes…they are building on top of their industry standard “Premiere Elements” architecture. 😉

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[Joseph W. Bourke]

Oh…and get rid of that pesky, so nineteen nineties timeline. Building the timeline as a boxed, matrix format, while it would slow down the editor, would be sooo cool looking. Kind of like a Windows 8 NLE.

Seriously, though…some more robust, multi-user media management tools would be killer…and to jump apps for a second, add a mini-Bridge browser to After Effects, such as is being used for Photoshop CS6, but of course with scrubbing, and maybe marking I/O points which will then import to the projects bin.

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