AIR and its implications for video

Beet.TV has an interview on AIR and its implications for video with Ryan Stewart, a Rich Internet Application Evangelist for Adobe. Beet.TV has more from the Adobe Engage conference, just scout around.



Apparently Microsoft's Silverlight will be in the spotlight next week. Silverlight 1.0 is primarily focused on video, and word is that the features management wanted could only be done now in Flash (which is often done on the Mac inside MS). That should change with Silverlight 2; see Scott Guthrie's blog post First Look at Silverlight 2 (beta release 1).

Update: there's more on this from Adobe VP David Wadhwani (and more analysis on Beet.TV and a 2007 overview in The Architecture of Flash):



Update 2: eWeek (3/3/08) talks to CTO Kevin Lynch about AIR and Open Source in Adobe Floating on AIR.

Adobe Director 11 Does Physics & 3D

Create Digital Motion notes the upcoming release of Director 11, which does more Flash plus AGEIA Physics and 3D rendering with DirectX 9.

Not sure what you'll find if you scratch the surface...

RichFLV among Adobe AIR Apps to Check Out

Read/WriteWeb has a coupla articles on Adobe AIR, which was launched at the Adobe Engage 2008 event today in San Francisco: The Best Things About Adobe's AIR Platform and 6 Adobe AIR Apps to Check Out.

RichFLV (pictured above) seems cool; it let`s you edit .flv files and metadata.

There are more AIR apps at the Adobe AIR Marketplace, and John Dowdell and Ryan Stewart note other press coverage.

Update: Lee Brimelow has an article on Streaming Media on Building Video Apps With Adobe AIR.

Update 2: Adobe released a new version of the desktop color harmony browser kuler.