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  • Mediasite Live: Sonic Foundary’s Breeze w/ Hardware

    With Breeze’s price tags between 20k and 200k (or just call them to discuss), I can see why Sonic Foundry coupled with Sony would hit this market hard. They know video and audio pretty well. Let’s hope their approach to marketting this product is better than their approach to offering almost identical software under different sub-titles (ACID DJ, ACID Pro, ACID Jazz, etc. all the same product with 3 miniscule features missing from each, just enough to tick you off. Do I rant about that enough?).

    At any rate, they even have hardware bundled with it. The entire site is ripe with marketting info… a little overload for me. Funny, though, go to the FAQ if you just want the quick low down, and see how many times the word “rich” is on this page… dang new trend! Well, sure beats hearing “XML” everywhere I go.

    Oh yeah, and ignore the picture of that one dude looking intensely at the screen in the blue light (first picture in the slideshow you see on the homepage)… he looks like the DC sniper; guess they better change that one quick, huh? *ahem*

    <a href=”http://www.sonicfoundry.com/support/faqs.asp”>FAQ</a>

    Disclaimer: Just in case there is no discrepency, there are many differences between this technology and Macromedia’s Breeze. The similiarities, however, will be known by my boyz over at Flashcom, so I thought it was interesting to see what others are doing.

  • Flash 7.0.1 Updater

    Just doin’ my part. (French and German also available)

    <a href=”http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/downloads.html”>Downloads</a>

    <a href=”http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flash/updates/mx2004/update_fmx_2004.exe”>English Updater EXE</a>

    <a href=”http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flash/releasenotes.html”>Release Notes</a>

  • What’s Next?

    My co-worker, <a href=”http://www.erikbianchi.com/”>Erik</a>, has brought up an interesting question: What’s Next? He’s specifically referring to the progression of programming. First came procedural, then came OOP, but what comes after that? Here’s what I think.

    Read on…

  • JSAPI Library “Item” Property bug?

    I seem to be getting incorrect return values from JSAPI via MMExecute for the following Item object property on Compiled Clips:
    – linkageExportForAS

    The property determines whether or not the symbol in the library is exported for ActionScript (so you can use attachMovie using it via its linkage name). I’m getting a string of “undefined” returned, but all compiled clips that I can see are exported for ActionScript by default. The other properties, like “linkageExportForRS” work as expected; “undefined” if not capable of being checked, false if not checked. I’ve tested in my Window SWF and as regular JSAPI being run via the Command menu.

    Is this a bug? Can anyone else confirm?