[Peter Van den wyngaert]

Unfortunately I don’t know of any decent ‘digital’ solution yet. We ended up putting a tape over the bottom navigation bar, so the users could not interact with it. I know, it’s a silly solution, but it worked 🙂 It’s a shame that the controls (when exporting to a Flash presentation) cannot be edited.

[Peter Van den wyngaert]

Everytime Adobe announces new bundles I really feel left behind, this time even more.

I own Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium, Adobe Digital Video Collection, After Effects 6.5 Pro & Premiere 6.5 (which I bought seperately), and still I cannot use the lowest priced upgrade solution.

I’m even more surprized at the strange price differences between US & European customers (and I’m not talking about exchange and tax rates here):

Example:
upgrade from Video Collection Pro to Production Studio Premium: US$649.00 / 649.00 EURO
upgrade from Video Collection Std to Production Studio Premium: US$799.00 / 849.00 EURO ???
upgrade from Creative Suite 2 Pre to Production Studio Premium: US$999.00 / 999.00 EURO
upgrade from PremPro, PS or AEpro to Production Studio Premium: US$1249.00 / 1449.00 EURO ???

IMHO: customers who bought different Suites/Collections/Upgrades in the past should really get a special deal here. I’m wondering when Adobe will annouce the Super Bundle, with all web, video & print apps in it, so they can attract new customers for little money.

Another strange thing: US customers get the Production Studio product on DVD-rom, while Europeans still get a box full of CD’s 🙂

As a long time Adobe customer (for over 10 years now), and with all these Suite/Studio/Collection releases, I as a single individual have about 3 Photoshop licenses right now…. I don’t see any need for such luxuary 🙂

[Peter Van den wyngaert]

It’s really quiet at Adobe….. I’m waiting for the announcement of a new Video Collection (3.0? > AE 7.0, EncoreDVD 2.0, Premiere Pro 2.0)

Video Collection 2.5 was announced in April 2004, so it’s about time they come up with new goodies 🙂

[Peter Van den wyngaert]

New interface: about time!

Advanced curve editor: sweet!

Particle & Text effects browsing by using Bridge? Kinda weird. I’m still waiting for realtime previews of text effects on the selected text, instead of a demo text.

NDA: not under my chair!

Getting laid by AE: where do I get that plugin? 🙂

Anyway: Q4 is here, I’m waiting.