Major Product Upgrade Advances Multimedia Authoring Environment

Adobe today announced Adobe® Director® 11 software, a major upgrade to the company’s powerful multimedia authoring tool for building interactive applications and rich content. The latest release contains a flexible and easy-to-use authoring environment enabling multimedia authors, animators and developers to create powerful interactive applications, games, e-learning and simulation products.

With Director 11 or a combination of Director 11 and the Adobe Shockwave® Player, users can author once and publish content for the Web, CDs/DVDs and the desktop simultaneously. This robust environment complements Adobe’s ecosystem of creative products, enabling users to add Adobe Flash® SWF files to Director projects, play them in Director and Shockwave, and easily edit them with Adobe Flash CS3 Professional. In addition, Director 11 supports a wide variety of third-party add-ons creating the most extensible authoring environment possible. Director 11 also enables content creators to localize applications through Unicode, create new levels of lifelike motion in games and simulations with the Ageia™ PhysX™ physics engine, and deliver more engaging experiences with enhanced text and native 3D rendering.

Top features in Director 11

• Support for more than 40 video, audio, and image file formats
• Native 3D rendering with DirectX 9 support
• Advanced physics with the included AGEIA™ PhysX™ engine
• Support for Adobe Flash CS3 Professional software and video created with Flash
• Unicode support, including multimode publishing
• Enhanced text rendering engine
• Enhanced user interface
• Enhanced Script Browser and full JavaScript support
• Bitmap filters
• Xtra plug-ins

More info:
Adobe Press Release
Adobe Director 11 Product Page

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[Nutrox]

That is sounding good. OMG, I said Director is sounding good!

I haven't looked into the finer details of it yet but if it uses the same kind of script syntax as AS3 (ECMA) then that would open up some seriously big doors for developers, and I would definitely purchase it.

[Laveklint]

Man I left Director 8-9 years ago... So director have droped LINGO?
I think this sounds pretty cool.. Don´t know if I will use though...

But I agree with you Nutrox

AS3 (ECMA) then that would open up some seriously big doors for developers

[bemerx25]

Unfortunately it looks like it doesn't support AS3 - look under the scripting row on the comparison table here: http://www.adobe.com/products/director/compare/

[Nutrox]

Boooo! It is still using Lingo.

[mehmet22]

I would of never thought director would be released again.

[sims11tz]

WoW.... Back from the dead, wonder for how much longer.

[John B.]

Originally posted by mehmet22
I would of never thought director would be released again.

So did I! I thought that Director was good as dead and that a future release of Flash would incorporate some of Director's features in a new and improved way. Guess I couldn't have been more wrong!

[dezion]

An upgrade that has been LONG overdue. I did a survey with Adobe more than a year ago in regards to the next Director release. It looks like they didn't listen to some of my suggestions. I was hoping for a more thorough overhaul than just additional features. The additional video codec support will be nice and would have been beneficial since Director MX days. At least it hasn't died.

[rmduran]

Now this is the best news I've heard ever since the CS3 announcement. True, long overdue, but greatly welcome! yay! And I'm actually so glad to see Lingo still around, live and kickin'. I only hope its not a pale release as GoLive was.

[xervia]

This is really disappointing. there is no way Director can ever catch up with Flash. What i was also craving was the integration of the cool Director features into Flash. Although i think Flash is on its way there, especially in terms of handling video files. Anyways i look forward to giving the new Director a try, just for the benefit of doubt.