Livemotion versus Flash

[wolter]

Don't clash with Flash

Elsewhere in Silicon Valley, people are wondering what happened to Adobe's ambition to best Macromedia's Flash animation software with its own LiveMotion software.

Rumors grinding through the mill suggest that that ambition has clashed with reality in recent months, resulting in a major reorganization of the LiveMotion group, including deep layoffs.

Adobe said reports of LiveMotion's death were greatly exaggerated, but did allow that the unit had been subsumed by Adobe's digital video group and that some foreign-language versions of the product (Italian, Spanish and Dutch) were discontinued. As a rule, the company does not discuss layoffs, but one manager allowed that if the Rumor Mill had heard someone in LiveMotion had lost his or her job in recent months, "it was probably true."

Adobe has been sweating it out trying to chip in to Macromedia's market share in the Web authoring and animation arena. In an earnings call in March, CEO Bruce Chizen admitted that LiveMotion hadn't lived up to expectations, and called it more of an add-on to Flash, rather than a replacement for it.

"It's clear Macromedia has done a good job in creating a standard with Flash," Chizen said in the call. "Am I happy about that? No. But I'm a pragmatist."

(Quelle: http://news.com.com/2011-1088-933381.html)

[Madokan]

Ich persönlich bin sehr enttäuscht von Live Motion 2 - da hab ich mir mehr versprochen.

Aber auch die erste Version hat sich nicht durchsetzen können. Sehe kaum marktchancen. Was nützen mir die Bitmap Spielerein, die bekommt man auch via Photoshop hin.

Nun ja war ein netter Versuch von Adobe !

mfg
Matze K.

P.S.: Ich weiss ein hartes Urteil, aber wir wissen auch das Adobe es besser kann - siehe Photoshop. Dabei sollten Sie auch bleiben !

[wolter]

wobei ich die zweite version ganz passabel im vergleich zu flash 5 finde. sind einige gute ansätze drin wie zum bsp. die automatisierungsskripts (das wäre in flash auch super).

gruss,

sascha.