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Kevin Lynch demonstrates next generation Flash Player

October 24th, 2004 | Category: Adobe Flash.

Very cool recording by Moock: Kevin Lynch showing the next generation of the Flash Player at a Flash conference in Tokyo. Kevin demonstrated the run-time capability to render bitmap effects like drop shadow, glow, blur, color matrix, and bevel. Apparently there will be full ActionScript control of these effects at run-time, as well as full support in the Flash authoring tool which is code named “8ball”.

He also showed that there will be support for alpha channel in video. Lynch changed the background of a running video in the player and interacted with elements playing behind the video, showing the alpha capabilities. How sweet! Last but not least; he showed better text rendering and huge player performance improvements (up to 10 times faster?).

Let’s hope we get to see more of this and in better quality (sorry Moock, pun not intended ;-)) at MAX in New Orleans!

8 Responses to “Kevin Lynch demonstrates next generation Flash Player”

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  1. 1 N Rohler Oct 24th, 2004 at 1:25 am

    Whoa! That’s going to be some powerful stuff. I can hardly wait!

  2. 2 dominick Oct 24th, 2004 at 4:43 pm

    this is really great news. I think i understand better what they were talking about when they mentioned that 8ball would be a designers release.

  3. 3 mark Oct 25th, 2004 at 12:56 am

    The link is down, is there any way someone can send me the movie?

  4. 4 Simon Oct 25th, 2004 at 5:44 pm

    The speed improvements look incredible! I’m presuming this enhances the runtime of complex vectors as well as bitamps?

  5. 5 Simon Oct 25th, 2004 at 5:58 pm

    ‘bitmaps’ (also fixed link). duh.

  6. 6 Matt Oct 25th, 2004 at 8:41 pm

    Any rough estimate on when we will see this release? Early 2005?

  7. 7 Steve Oct 25th, 2004 at 10:54 pm

    I sense more and more backlash over the flash player because of those nasty “coverall” ads. I wonder if this new version will introduce user preferences as to allow/disallow those much like popups and popup blockers today.

  8. 8 Peter Oct 29th, 2004 at 1:06 pm

    @Matt: macromedia has announced that this release is planned for the second half of 2005.

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