Dave Burke - Freelance .NET Developer specializing in Online Communities

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[non-.NET] No more Adobe LiveMotion

Adobe LiveMotion is one of those Adobe products I purchase whenever a new version is available, along with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat.  I've been so .NET-driven for the last, oh, year, that I haven't put serious time into staying in touch with my Graphic Designer's side, though I still do a fair amount of graphic design work as part of my job.

Regarding LiveMotion, it was the animated image component of the group competing with Flash.  I went with it after a lot of deliberation, concluding that I wanted a more integrated graphic design environment and wanted to stay with Adobe. 

I just saw this on Adobe's site tonight:

Effective November 15, 2003, Adobe will no longer distribute LiveMotion 2.0. Though Adobe has decided to concentrate its efforts in other areas, we want to thank our loyal LiveMotion customers for their support.

Here's the full url.

The good news is that I always viewed animated images as something that doesn't bring real business value to applications--web or otherwise.  I'm always looking for good use of animated images in applications, but at this point in time and in my particular environment I just didn't see it.  So I'm happy that I haven't spent hours and hours learning a package which is going away....unlike the year of my life I spent learning COM....

 

Posted: Nov 17 2003, 11:32 PM by daveburke | with 2 comment(s)
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Shannon J Hager said:

I've never actually heard of anyone who used this product before, it always seemed like Microsoft's attempt at Flash in the late 90's, Liquid Motion (I think that is what they called it). Did LiveMotion actually work for you and your needs?
# November 18, 2003 12:14 AM

Dave Burke said:

Shannon, As I said, I just never found a use for it. I use Illustrator quite a bit, Photoshop everyday, and Acrobat every week or two, but LiveMotion, no. I opened it up several times, took a look around, and didn't get it. That, coupled with the fact that I couldn't see how I would use it to impress my employer meant that it went unused permanently.

So in a word, no. I was looking for something similar in functionality to Photoshop that output to .SWF, that was about it. Still, I was hoping for big things from version 3.0 to get me motivated. Guess it ain't gonna happen. Thanks for your comments!

# November 18, 2003 12:24 AM
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