Adobe Launches Adobe Director 11

Adobe Director 11

Adobe Director 11 is used for building interactive applications, games, e-learning, simulation products and rich content.

Adobe today announced Adobe Director 11 software which is a major upgrade to this powerful multimedia authoring tool.

With Adobe Director 11 users can author once and publish content for the Web, CDs/DVDs and the desktop simultaneously. 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.

Providing the broadest support for industry standard audio, video and image files, Director 11 also boasts powerful new features, including support for Adobe Flash 9 technology and bitmap filters to simplify adding characteristics, such as shadowing or glow, to text or images.

Adobe Director 11 offers language support with both JavaScript and Lingo — the native scripting language of Director — for programming in more than one language, as well as an enhanced script browser to save programming time by breaking out the code and code snippets with drag and drop capability.

Adobe Director 11 is expected to be available by the end of March 2008. Director 11 is priced at US$999 for the full product and US$299 for an upgrade from the prior three versions.

The product runs on multiple operating systems, including Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2, Windows Vista and Mac OS X version 10.4 on Intel-based Macintosh systems. Shockwave runs on all of those systems as well as Mac OS X 10.4 on PowerPC-based Macintosh systems.