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Today, Adobe gave a sneak peek into Flash Player 10 and showed off the new RTL, multi-column text engine, the new 3D features, and the new bitmap effect scripting language, Hydra.

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Video: Flash Player 10 (Astro) Sneak Peek at MAX Chicago 2007 Keynote

  1. Thanks Aral!

    aSH
  2. thanx a lot for liveblogging MAX keynote and the video, you rock ! ;-)

    koen de weggheleire
  3. Great man! It makes it a little more bearable for those unable to attend MAX :)

    Wouter Verweirder
  4. Very interesting video – I love the liveblog!

    Baby Milo
  5. [...] Update: Recorded video from Astro keynote on Aral’s blog 3D, ActionScript, Flash [...]

    Franto.com Flash blog » Astro - first news
  6. Good effort, but the jumpcut video player just sucks. For some reason it’s not streaming properly, and they have set buffering to 0.1 seconds, so it’s really jumpy when buffering and trying to play. And pausing and waiting doesn’t help :(

    Use something nicer, Brightcove or blip.tv player (or youtube if you really have to) next time. Thanks.

    Erki Esken
  7. Thanks a lot to share this video ;)

    Tek
  8. Really really nice :) Thanks for blogging :)

    Owen van Dijk
  9. Hi Erki:

    Yeah, Jumpcut’s quality/streaming sucks but it’s better than no keynote video, right? :)

    YouTube was down and unfortunately Viddler doesn’t handle the H.264 files that iMovie exports (and I don’t have an account with a different site at the moment.) I’m still looking for a good video-to-web workflow so hopefully things will improve.

    Aral
  10. [...] Podéis ver el video de la keynote en el blog de Aral Balkan.           0 votos [...]

    MadeInFlex » Blog Archive » ASTRO: Flash Player 10
  11. [...] via Aral Balkan [...]

    Digital Motion dot net » Flash Player 10 Astro Sneak Peek at MAX Chicago 2007 Keynote
  12. Thanks for sharing,
    great video, I love the new features of the next flash player.

    Keep on going, I love your weblog

    Andre de Groot
  13. Video of Astro in Day 1 MAX 2007 keynote…

    If you missed the keynote, or weren’t able to make it to Chicago for MAX this year, Aral Balkan has a video clip of us presenting a few of the Astro features on his blog. Aral’s blog on the Astro……

    Emmy Huang
  14. OK, YouTube’s started working again. I’ve replaced the video with the YouTube version. Hopefully that should play back better.

    Aral
  15. Cool ! Thanks man :)

    as3blog
  16. [...] 新闻来自Danger的blog,恩,说了这么多,想看看的去这里,有一段Youtube的视频(如果觉得速度慢,可以试试这个加速器) [...]

    Flashplayer10 - Astro
  17. [...] Adobe demos new features of Astro at MAX. Credit goes to Aral for the video. [...]

    dispatchEvent » Are You Sitting Down? You’d Better Sit Down.
  18. The AIF image processing looks really promising. I can’t wait to dig into that. However, I was a little underwhelmed by the 3D support. Perhaps I’m just spoiled by Papervision, but I was expecting something a little more comprehensive than adding a z coordinate to Sprites. Hopefully what they showed today was just a small tease…

    brett walker
  19. [...] Aral Balkan is showing us a preview of Flash Player 10 from Adobe Max 2007. New features of the player are a multi column text engine, great new 3d features and a bitmap effect scripting language, called Hydra. [...]

    2.0 | Rich internet Experience » Blog Archive » Flash Player 10 "Astro" preview
  20. [...] Im Blog von Aral Balkan gibt es auch ein Video der Flash Player 10 Präsentation. Unbedingt anschauen. [...]

    Blog von Jens Franke » Flash Player 10
  21. RTL support.. about time.

    Who knows.. maybe http://www.amirdotan.com/the-right-to-flash/ had something to do with it :)

    Amir D
  22. 基調講演 : Adobe MAX 2007 North America…

    速報レポート。……

    メディアテクノロジーラボ ブログ
  23. Still funny how something like text columns can get an audience of cutting edge developers hyped up :-)

    Michiel van der Ros
  24. [...] Flash Player 10 sneakpeak [...]

    Jills blog » Blog Archive » Adobe news
  25. [...] Aral Balkan (flash developer and amateur camera man) filmed the event and uploaded it to Youtube so you can see the demos for yourself. [...]

    Flash 10 - first info » Binary Moon » The home of Ben Gillbanks
  26. Flash Player 10 Preview : Video from MAX 2007…

    Aral Balkan has published a video, taken during the keynote at MAX Chicago 2007, about the preview of Flash Player 10 (codename: ASTRO).
    […]Adobe showed off the new RTL, multi-column text engine, the new 3D features, and the new bitmap effect scr…

    Metah Blog
  27. [...] Video: Flash Player 10 (Astro) Sneak Peek at MAX Chicago 2007 Keynote at Aral Balkan [...]

    Just Flashing - Today’s Top Blog Posts on Flash - Powered by SocialRank
  28. [...] Yesterday, Adobe announced some new stuff at MAX Chicago 2007, I was not there, but here is video that somebody made: MAX Chicago 2007 Keynote [...]

    Paper Effect/Media Simulation In Hyrda // Now I Simon
  29. wow! what took weeks will now take minutes. and we can now finally offer our clients a real text and localization tool in flash, that is very exciting.

    Adobe really addressed some real world issues and came through wonderfully, keep up the good work!!!

    Thanks!

    craig elimeliah
  30. Fabulous Aral – thank you. Really nice for those of us who couldn’t attend.

    Liz Myers
  31. [...] Aral Balkan videoed the one new and interesting bit (according to him) of the keynote speech at this year’s MAX event in Chicago. As an aside, what is it about keynote speeches? This one sounds as unrevealing as Microsoft’s MIX:UK keynote. Anyway, that aside, the video is available on YouTube, which handily allows it to be embedded in a blog. So see for yourself what the new features in Flash Player 10 will be: [...]

    David Arno’s Blog » Adobe give a “Sneak Peak” of Flash Player 10
  32. [...] Chicago Keynote 2007 konferansında Flash Player 10 Astro tanıtıldı. Yeni metin görüntüleme tekniği, 3D özellikler ve bitmap efektleri var. İşlemcinin daha büyük bir kısmını kullanması benim için yeterli. 2 Ekim, 2007 [...]

    RenkliBlog.com » Flash Player 10 Astro
  33. This is real great and exciting news! (Both RTL and 3D).

    I hope they release some more info on how the new text API will be implemented.
    there are some stupid but critical questions, like will it support RTL input…
    and even more important will this text be picked up by Google spiders?

    and until this version comes out you can check out this RTL solution which has become quite good for RTL output.
    http://www.electroinn.com/blog/?p=3

    Gideon

    MrSimons
  34. [...] Other than fixes to broken features and other small things, there are two huge features I see in the future of Flash: hardware-accelerated 3D support, and pixel shader support. This dream became closer to reality yesterday, as Adobe announced some of the new features of Flash Player 10 (codenamed “Astro”) on Adobe Max 2007 (see a video here). [...]

    labs.zeh.com.br » Blog Archive » Seeing shades of the future
  35. [...] well.. 自從上次做過和3d及video相關的網站後..發現愈來愈多網站其實就已經開始用code來達成3d on web的效果..之前在舊版曾經post過有關papervision 3d的資訊.. 但除了這套open source 之外..其實很多人一直都在研發3D engine..前幾天和同事聊到酷炫 3D站..他就給我看他在學校所做的project…說到如何運用4個點來控制物件的視角變化.. http://nmshowcase.cias.rit.edu/flash/source/ 學生就可以做到這樣的程度…no wonder 我們公司很愛用剛畢業的強手.. 還有另一個強手 Mathieu Badimon的 Lab..也是屬於自己研發3d engine的例子之一(贏得這次flashForward)..看來數學愈來愈重要..若要玩的精準….adobe在max 2007 conference中也提到將推出flash player10 (Astro)..其中也提到將會有內建的3d component..所以in the future….3D is the trend! [...]

    NewYork÷(marc×pwang×aileen) » Blog Archive » 3D is the trend!
  36. [...] Yesterday, Emmy Huang and I announced some of the new features that will be going into Astro (The next version of Flash Player). We got a great response from attendees, and I hope you will be equally excited by what is coming next. If you’d like to see the video, take a look at Aral Balkan’s recording. [...]

    Justin’s Flash Blog » Astro at MAX 2007
  37. [...] Pour vous faire une idée de ces nouveautés, je vous propose de visionner la vidéo suivante (Flash Player 10 (Astro) Sneak Peek at MAX Chicago 2007 Keynote) : [...]

    FredCavazza.net » Des infos sur le Flash Player 10
  38. [...] Via: Aral Balkan [...]

    chblog » Flash Player 10
  39. [...] 1 октября Эмми Хуанг (Emmy Huang) и Джастин Эверт Черч (Justin Everett-Church) анонсировали некоторые новые фичи нового Flash Player-а под кодовым именем “Astro”. Их презентацию на видео можно было посмотреть у Арала Балкана (Aral Balkan). [...]

    WebService //Flash :: Еще раз об Astro - новом Flash Player-е
  40. [...] Astro, bonito nombre para la criatura. No se donde lei que escoger el codename para el proyecto era el 90% del desarrollo, tiene su gracia. El caso es que en dicho keynote propagado por el infame Aral Balkan, (infame porque es de esos que dan rabia de lo que saben), se habla de algunas de las suculentas caracteristicas del nuevo player. Vale, no es Actionscript 4, dios no lo quiera tan pronto. Pero el resto es para hecharse a llorar. Quiero decir, un nuevo soporte con texto RTL (Right-to-left), no es algo que me emocione demasiado, nunca he tenido que pelearme con una web en un idioma complejo que necesiten ese tipo de caracteristicas (toco madera). El nuevo soporte para texto multicolumna tampoco creo que me traiga demasiados quebraderos de cabeza, pero aqui se acaba mi placida vida cuando veo las 2 siguientes caracteristicas: Soporte para 3D y extensibilidad para filtros, modos de fusión y efectos de bitmap a través de un nuevo lenguaje, codename Hydra (ya empieza a tocar la moral tanto nombrecito, a mi todavía se me escapa de vez en cuando Macromedia). [...]

    sidedev.net » Blog Archive » Flash Player 10 codename Astro, o la historia de como nunca podrás dormir mas de 4 horas.
  41. [...] 3D, effets spéciaux, gestion du texte nettement amélioré… via Cavazza, aralbalkan & Lessrain [...]

    Flash “Astro” Player contre attaque « Nouveau Monde
  42. RTL is great news, but naturally will be a good while before we can start using on commercial projects. Does anyone know of any good RTL solutions that can be used with FP8?

    Philip Bulley
  43. Thanks Gideon will check that out. If anyone else knows of other solutions, please post :)

    Philip Bulley
  44. [...] (une des) source de l’info : http://aralbalkan.com/1048 [...]

    mat : Flash, Silverlight... La bonne guerre
  45. [...] Check out Aral Balkan’s post from Adobe MAX 2007, along with a video of Emmy Huang’s and Justin Everett-Church’s presentation. Also make sure you get some of your questions answered by Justin in the interview by Lee Brimelow. [...]

    My take on Hydra – Antti Kupila
  46. [...] Aral Balkan filmed the Flash 10 Astra demo: http://aralbalkan.com/1048 [...]

    nesse.net » Blog Archive » Videos from Adobe Max 2007 (Flash 10, Quake in Flash, etc)
  47. Given that Adobe are implementing things like RTL support, multi-column layouts and many other things which are being drafted into CSS3, does it not make sense for Adobe to help out the W3C CSS Working Group in drafting the CSS3 specification?

    At the moment, CSS support within the Flex framework doesn’t cover more than the basics (so much so that it’s debatable as to whether it’s CSS beyond the syntax). This could be an opportunity for Adobe to take advantage of the fact that browser vendors are slow, unwilling or unable to implement the CSS specs properly.

    Adobe’s experience within the Flash environment (which essentially follows the same box-model of browser-based DOM) would be invaluable to the W3C.

    Nathan de Vries
  48. [...] Link here [...]

    Script.it » FlashPlayer 10 (Astro)
  49. That’s a very good suggestion, Nathan. I don’t know what, if any, effort there is on that front.

    Aral
  50. [...] Y este video de la presentación, de 8 minutos aproximadamente, gracias a Aral Balkan. [...]

    Novedades de Flash Player 10 « Jorge Díaz’s Weblog
  51. [...] Visto en Cristalab, mas informaciòn en aralbalkan.com [...]

    Binamedia » Flash Player 10 - ASTRO
  52. Aren’t they part of it already?

    http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members.php3

    Zeh
  53. [...] If you want to view the sneak peeks check Aral Balkan’s blog for Flash Player 10 and Thermo and Peter Elst’s blog for the rest . [...]

    Sönke Rohde » MAX Chigaco - Short Review
  54. the new flash player features look really cool, but it seems as it somehow takes some of the fun of creating 3D away as it come “built in” to the player… on the other hand the new text features look exiting, and Hydra … well i can’t wait to get to spend a little more time with it!
    thx for posting a cool video

    dominic
  55. [...] http://aralbalkan.com/1048 (video) [...]

    fog & whisky » Flash Player 10 Demo’d at MAX
  56. [...] Am einfachsten sieht man sich einfach das Video in Aral Balkans Blog an. [...]

    flash player 10 at blog.nm-graefen
  57. [...] I am also exited about the Advanced Text Layout Support coming in version 10, take a look at this vid, thanks again Aral. After years of neglecting RTL languages (that is Right To Left writing direction – Hebrew and Arabic), and countless crippled hacks that never really worked – finally a solution seems to work good. [...]

    to De Blog » Blog Archive » Flash 10 Sneak Peek looks promising
  58. [...] Flash Player 10 Sneak (w/video!!): http://aralbalkan.com/1048 [...]

    Flash Platform Group Costa Rica » Blog Archive » Ligas de MAX
  59. [...] I really should have posted this when I first watched it, but here you are a video taken from the Adobe Max conference, showing some new features for the new player. Notably there’s now a Z rotation property for sprites. [...]

    Pocket Flash » Blog Archive » Flash Player 10 - codename Astro
  60. Flash Player 10 (Astro) 新功能 : Mdadi.com
  61. [...] You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your ownsite. [...]

    fastestda » Blog Archive » Video: Flash Player 10 (Astro) Sneak Peek at MAX Chicago 2007 Keynote
  62. [...] This presentation was recorded by Aral Balkan (flash developer and amateur camera man), and I saw it at Binary Moon. [...]

    lisbonlab » First introduction to Flash 10
  63. thanks for video
    next version player 11 cosmonaut :P

    arts
  64. Adding the z-axis is huge. If you think PaperVision is cool, I assure you you ain’t seen nothing yet. Combine real 3D distortion (as appose to tesselation/skewing) with programmable pixel shaders and it won’t be long before we see realtime reflections, normal mapping etc. in Flash. Ofcourse you still need people with a good grasp of 3D to create this stuff and the PV team should be really well poised to get the most out of the new features with a huge increase in performance. Can’t wait to see PV2 ;O)

    Oh yeh, text that’s almost upto HTML standard will be nice too.

    Peter Strømberg
  65. [...] Blog von Aral Balkan gibt es auch ein Video der Flash Player 10 Präsentation. Unbedingt [...]

    Blog von Jens Franke » Flash Player 10
  66. [...] much better text flow [...]

    Flash on the Beach 2007 « Pauls Bit
  67. Flash Player 10 : Astro, the most important release of flash since… ever ?…

    In this major release, flash has now all of the possibilities we were waiting for : fine handling of text, in all languages (it was bad in the other versions), native 3D, hydra filters (based on Adobe Image Foundation, a script language to make…

    *stef . blog*
  68. Thanks for video.
    Z-axis? That’s great!

    Polkan
  69. I bet you you still can’t do superscript and subscript properly in dynamic text fields!

    Stefan
  70. [...] here a preview video – really cool, I wonder if those shaders are HW accelerated though (via [...]

    Hardcode : Flash 10 preview
  71. Did YouTube remove the video? Would really like to see this one… :)

    Hansen
  72. Ops, seems to be working again.. sweet stuff!

    Hansen
  73. I bet you you still can’t do superscript and subscript properly in dynamic text fields!

    hotic
  74. Don’t working again :(

    webstat
  75. aralcım mesajı alıp almadığını bilemediğim için çok bişey yazamadım kendine iyi bak

    turgay
  76. What is the point, it shows in the example that the whole text direction and LTR and there is some words which is a RTL-Words and they are showing well????

    We need to see a FULL RIGHT TO LEFT (RTL) Direction Paragraph…

    Saleh
  77. Да, было бы смешно, если б не было так грустно …

    Мурат
  78. Video conferencing is indeed a great innovation of Information Technology and Communications. I guess the news media is the first user of video conferencing.

    Advantages of Video Conferencing
  79. ohhh thank you aral

    oguzhan
  80. thank you aralbalkan

    arsen
  81. Don’t working again

    irem yücesan
  82. thanks,,very nice blog

    haber
  83. Oooo Thanks…

    engelliler
  84. thansk you

    oguzhan
  85. Hi I’m Turkish. you proud

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    http://www.yaziyeri.com/index.php/topic,313.0.html

    yaziyeri
  86. Paylaşım için teşekkürler ;)

    Okan
  87. thank’s aral.

    Naxisty
  88. paylaşımınızdan dolayı teşekkürler başarılar dilerim

    ilahiler
  89. her şey çok güzel tebrik ederim

    ilahidinle
  90. siteniz gerçekten çok güzel tüm paylaşımlarınız için teşekkür ederim

    ilahi
  91. Nice blog, Thank you

    KodArşivi