Windows® 98/Windows Millenium Edition/Windows 2000/Windows XP/Macintosh OS 9.1, 9.2, OS X 10.1 version Adobe® LiveMotionTM 2.0 New Feature Highlights Fast, efficient design Adobe LiveMotion 2.0 software delivers an environment for rapid, efficient design and development of and development of interactive Macromedia® Flash™ (SWF) and QuickTime content for the Web and other electronic media. interactive content Building on the groundbreaking features debuted in version 1.0, LiveMotion 2.0 combines design, coding, and debugging tools in an intuitive user interface to swiftly create scripted animations. An essential tool for both Web designers and developers, LiveMotion offers ActionScript support, robust scripting tools, a flexible authoring environment and integration with industry-standard Adobe software to enable a streamlined workflow with more creative control. Create Versatile Content–From sophisticated navigation systems, to e-commerce applications, to XML- based chat rooms, support for ActionScript expands the level and type of dynamic content that can now be developed with LiveMotion 2.0. Completely flexible, LiveMotion empowers users to create and deploy intelligent Flash (SWF) files for the Web and other on-line and off-line delivery platforms. Accelerate Your Design Workflow–Through innovative scripting technology and custom user interfaces, LiveMotion automates the design, development and production of interactive content. Streamline Productivity–Tight integration with Adobe content and video creation solutions, interoperability with third party Flash (SWF) authoring tools, enhancements to the object based timeline and a non-destructive authoring environment minimize production time while maximizing creativity. This document describes the new features in LiveMotion 2.0 in addition to product contents, pricing and availability. Create Versatile Content ActionScript Support–Through inventive use of ActionScript, designers and developers can deliver a range of interactive Flash (SWF) content while improving site performance, streamlining navigation, and reducing download times for a more engaging and informative end user experience. ActionScript, supported by a full featured scripting toolset, makes building interactive training tools, Web front ends, advanced e-commerce tools, complex mathematical modeling, sophisticated menu systems, data driven product pages and more, both efficient and cost effective. On and Off-Line Delivery Platforms–LiveMotion goes beyond creating Flash (SWF) files, QuickTime videos and graphics for the Web. Integrate and deploy animated content in CD-ROM interfaces, interactive Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, PDAs, wireless phones, product demos, promotional kiosks and more. LMChat is an example of an XML chat room. Heavy duty.com is an e-commerce site. 2 Import and Export Multiple File Formats– LiveMotion provides a choice of import and export file formats that offer designers and developers the flexibility to choose the file format that best fits their project requirements, design expectations and target audience. Import and Export file formats: Flash (SWF)–Deliver interactive animations Import formats: GIF, JPEG, created in LiveMotion as optimized, compact PNG, EPS,TIFF, PICT, Flash (SWF) files exported to the ubiquitous Photoshop (PSD), and Flash (SWF) player. Flash (SWF) content Illustrator (.AI 7.0 - 10). developed with LiveMotion 2.0 can be viewed Support for more than 20 consistently across all browsers and platforms sound formats, including matching the designer’s creative vision. MP3, AU, AIFF, and WAV Create interactive animations for Web deployment and other electronic QuickTime–Export LiveMotion 2.0 files as delivery platforms such as animated Microsoft Powerpoint presenations. Export formats: Flash (SWF), streaming QuickTime movies with visually QuickTime, GIF, JPEG, PNG, rich bitmap effects such as softness and distortions. LiveMotion uses sub-pixel rendering for bitmaps and Photoshop (PSD), animated vectors to ensure high-quality video output without the bitmap artifacts commonly found in Flash (SWF) GIF, and streaming MP3 output. Its support of 8-bit alpha channels enables smooth compositing of LiveMotion video with other audio media in After Effects®. LiveMotion compositions exported as QuickTime can also be edited in Adobe Premiere®, composited in After Effects, and made into interactive streaming media in GoLive®. Export streaming QuickTime Video. MP3 Streaming Audio–Expanding from its earlier support of WAV, AIFF, and other audio formats, LiveMotion can now import MP3 audio, and export streaming MP3 audio to SWF or QuickTime. Streaming MP3 support in SWF means that audiences can start playing back sound more quickly, and animations and sounds can be kept in synch. Additional File Formats–LiveMotion 2.0 also supports import and export of traditional graphic file formats such as GIF, animated GIF, PSD and EPS. A complete list of import and export file formats can be on the side bar to the left. Stunning Type Effects and Easier Text Editing–The Photoshop-based text engine in LiveMotion enables sophisticated typography and effects. Words and letters can be converted to animation-ready objects in a single step using the “convert into objects” command. Seamlessly style and animate individual characters in 3 a text block or retain the word as a single, animation-ready object. Animated text effects can be saved as Styles and easily applied to new text objects and shared with other users. Because of its non-destructive object model, text remains fully editable. Add bitmap effects such as shadows and highlights, rotate, scale, skew and more – text changes can be made at any point in the animation process. And, because text is easily updated right on the canvas, last minute editing is much faster. Integrated Content Creation Tools– LiveMotion provides the integrated drawing tools you’d expect in a professional animation tool, such as the industry standard Bézier pen tool for creating and editing precise paths, as well as standard Polygon, Ellipse, and Rectangle shape tools. Rulers, Guides, and Grids, and Animate text as individual objects and save text effects as Styles for use in multiple Selection and Transformation future LiveMotion projects. tools, round out the toolset. LiveMotion lets you design and edit original artwork without relying on outside applications. Integrated Raster and Vector Tools–LiveMotion 2.0 offers the flexibility to create both vector and raster artwork in a single application. Built-in vector tools allow you to produce and control the appearance and size of shape and text objects. Create and animate vector artwork, while keeping file export size to a minimum. By adding raster effects such as softness and lens effects like twirl and quantize to its animation kit, LiveMotion can create artwork that breaks the design constrains of simple vectors. Visually enrich animated artwork with textures, drop shadows, bevels, blending modes, layer masks and more. Quickly drag-and- drop pre-built bitmap effects on to objects from the Textures, Library or Styles palettes. When ready to export a final composition, LiveMotion 2.0 allows the designer to determine the compression of individual objects in order to balance download requirements with design objectives. The Preview Export Optimization feature indicates if a selected object will export as a bitmap or a vector image, in addition to its exported file size. Per Object compression optimizes and controls the file size of individual Easily access both objects and allows the designer to instantly see the appearance of objects change as the file settings are raster and vector tools in the tools adjusted. These two powerful features combined, allow the final output file to be as small as possible palette. without compromising the design of the entire composition. LiveMotion offers more control over object creation and editing. New to version 2.0, objects can be animated off the canvas. LiveMotion retains the bounding boxes of off-canvas objects as an indication of orientation and provides the flexibility to reduce magnification below 100% - which also is helpful when working with large compositions. Robust compression tools allow control over file export size and image quality. 4 Styles–LiveMotion 2.0 comes packed with pre-built animation sequences and graphic effects saved as Styles so you can start building animated content right out of the box. Styles can be applied to any object with simple drag-and-drop. Plus, any custom animation or effect can be saved as a Styles for future use. Accelerate the Workflow Through Application Extensibility Automation Scripts–To keep pace with client demands, designers and developers are expected to create advanced, dynamic content but in less time and with smaller budgets. To do this, design and production have to be streamlined and made more efficient. Through innovative scripting technology, users can script LiveMotion to automate any animation task or series of tasks that are part of the design process. Just as you would create scripted artwork, you can now script the authoring application itself. Using automation scripts, which are written in JavaScript, repetitive or complex elements of the animation process can be quickly automated. For example you can create a script that can animate text on a path. To do this manually would require a user to animate each letter individually and then place each character one-by-one along the path. One automation script can save an entire