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International News
U.S. Marine Corps Selects Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro for Mission-Critical Communications |
Product Feature
Adobe Director 11.5 |
Featured Book
Video with Adobe Flash CS4 Professional Studio Techniques |
Designer and Developer Feature
Director 11.5 adds powerful new interactive audio, video and 3D
Shockwave game accessibility
Online Seminars
Training Partners
Designer and Developer Resources
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International News
U.S. Marine Corps Select Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro for Mission-Critical Communications - Click for more |
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Adobe has announced that the U.S. Marine Corps have selected Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro as its standard Web conferencing solution. As a tactical battlefield collaboration tool for deployed troops, Acrobat Connect Pro can enable Marines to communicate more effortlessly and securely across locations worldwide. Some of the world’s most secure organisations in financial services, life sciences, and government — including the U.S. Department of Defense — have turned to Acrobat Connect Pro as a real-time collaboration solution. It not only meets the government’s highest security standards, but also enables increased efficiency and communication across networks |
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Product Feature
Adobe Director 11.5 - Click for more |
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The latest version of Adobe Director has arrived - and it offers game developers, multimedia authors, and e-learning professionals a host of new features for creating even more immersive gaming and multimedia applications.
- A new audio engine for delivering 5.1 channel surround sound and creating audio effects using real-time mixing capabilities
- Support for High Definition (HD) video content thanks to H.264 and RTMP-based streaming
- Advanced 3D capabilities, including support for Google SketchUp 3D Importer
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Featured Book
Video with Adobe Flash CS4 Professional Studio Techniques - Click for more |
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In Video with Adobe Flash CS4 Professional Studio Techniques, Robert Reinhardt goes beyond the entry-level coverage found in other books to bring you a comprehensive look at what you really need to know to produce, host, and distribute Flash-compatible video on the Web, including FLV and AVC/H.264 content. Real world examples and hands-on projects with sample video files provide the expert training you need with tips and insights that everyone can benefit from. Robert Reinhardt is a highly respected authority on Flash and Flash video. He has authored or co-authored numerous books on Flash, including the Flash Bible and the Flash ActionScript Bible, and his blog and other online articles draw a wide audience. |
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| Designer & Developer Feature |
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Director 11.5 adds powerful new interactive audio, video and 3D - Click for more
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Director 11.5 and Shockwave 11.5 now extend the already powerful Director/Shockwave software application tool to include support for several new video formats, and for powerful new surround sound audio. The 11.5 upgrade comes less than a year after the release of Director 11, and is the second major release of Director from Adobe. This article provides an overview of Adobe Director & readers can learn about the great new features in Director. Director 11.5 adds support for Import and dynamic translation of Google's popular SketchUp (skp) 3D format, giving developers access to tens of thousands of models in the Google SketchUpWarehouse . |
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Shockwave game accessibility - Click for more
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Game accessibility is the practice of making games that are universally accessible to all, regardless of age, experience and disability (www.igda.org/accessibility). Director is a great tool for making games and simulations. It also features speech synthesis support which enables you to use the speech APIs that come with Mac OSX and MS Windows operating systems. The script engine in Director is also very powerful. In this article I'll describe how you can implement 3D sounds with scripts alone (no third-party Xtras needed) and how you can setup a sound compass to enable blind gamers to orient themselves in your games. |
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| Online Seminars |
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Getting Started with Acrobat Connect Pro - Online Training Seminar Series
August 25, 2009 - September 11, 2009
CS4: Shortcut to Brilliant eSeminar Series for Designers
September 08-22, 2009
CS4: Shortcut to Brilliant eSeminar Series for Web Professionals
August 26, 2009 - September 23, 2009
Adobe Photoshop CS4 for photography with Bryan O'Neil Hughes
September, 2009
CS4: Shortcut to Brilliant eSeminar Series for Video Professionals
August 27, 2009 - September 24, 2009 |
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| Training Partners |
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Aesir (Pty) Ltd - JHB
Adobe Authorised Training Center
Adobe Solutions Partner Custom Development & Integration covering all business verticals (government, finance, manufacturing, education)
Jackie Jacobs
011 702 9000
info@aesir.co.za
www.aesir.co.za
Digicape - Cape Town
Contact Angie
084 029 9950
www.digicape.co.za
Concept Interactive - Cape Town
Contact Elethea
elethea@conceptinteractive.net
www.conceptinteractive.net
Friends of Design - Cape Town
Web Design, DTP (Desktop Publishing), and Motion graphics courses
www.friendsofdesign.net
Multimedia Centre - Cape Town
InDesign, Captivate, Photoshop, Illustrator, Robohelp, After Effects, Flash
Neil Stromin
021 790 3684
nstromin@multimediacentre.co.za
www.multimediacentre.co.za
The TrainingRoom at Apple Centre Project 3 - Cape Town
Workshops and courses offering a wide range of creative pro applications, from print design to mobile authoring These are held every Thursday evening and Saturday morning.
www.thetrainingroom.co.za
Terasys Solutions - JHB
Design, Web, Film, Photo.
082 885 2712
www.terasys.co.za
Morning Star Design - JHB
Adobe Authorised Training Center
Rehana Rajah
011 782 4297
msd@netactive.co.za
www.imsd.co.za
Billy Einkamerer's Adobe courses (not official Adobe courses) - JHB
Adobe products used include Dreamweaver CS3, Fireworks CS3 and Photoshop CS3.
billy@assemble.co.za
www.assemble.co.za
WalkerDigital
Adobe Authorised Training Centre
Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat, Captivate Dreamweaver, Flash, After Effects, Premier.
Stephen Walker
stephen@walkerdigital.co.za
http://www.walkerdigital.co.za
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| Designer & Developer Resources and useful links |
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Dax Data's home page
Adobe's home page
Designer and Developer Resources
Adobe Design Centre
Adobe Developer Resources
Adobe Labs
Adobe TV
Adobe Exchange - easy-to-install extensions, time-saving functions, code and more.
Safari Books Online - e-reference library for designers and developers
Online Forums and Third Party Blogs
Adobe Online Forums
Design Center editor community blogs
Community site for all things MX
ColdFusion Developers Journal
SimplicIT Lab - South African Flash Resource |
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