Title: First autumn meeting
Location: OFVM Film Oxford
Link out: Click here
Description: Flash user group meeting
Start Time: 19:30
Date: 2009-09-24
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First autumn meeting
Monday, August 24th, 2009Flash Catalyst and Builder betas
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009Hey, the betas are public now, go forth and download:
- Flash Catalyst: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcatalyst/
- Flash Builder 4: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashbuilder4/
There is a ton of new content on Adobe Labs about these products. Here’s a few links to get started:
- Flash Builder and Flex 4 SDK: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashbuilder4/tutorials/
- Flash Catalyst: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcatalyst/tutorials/
- Flash Platform videos: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flash/videos/
March meeting – 24th March
Monday, March 9th, 2009This month is mostly given by our sister Adobe User group: www.flashoxford.com
Away3d and the future of 3d in Flash
Hosted by Rob Bateman, a Flash developer who has been integral to the creation of Away3d a realtime 3d Flash engine. He will provide an overview of this exciting open source project and discuss examples of work created using Away3d. This session should be of interest to coders and animators interested in cutting edge Flash development.
For more information on Away3d check out Rob’s blog at http://www.infiniteturtles.co.uk.
Venue: OFVM – Film Oxford, 54 Catherine St, Oxford, OX4 3AH
Starts at 7.30pm
Location: http://tiny.cc/ghNTd
Last night’s talk – and offer
Thursday, February 5th, 2009Many many thanks to Paul Forsey for a great talk on panoramic photography and for bringing all that great kit.
Paul’s web site is at www.stepintothepicture.co.uk
You can see some of his panoramas here.
Paul talked us through the complete process, from building your own tripod head to taking the photos, to using RealViz Stitcher Pro (Mac or PC).
I think Autodesk (makers of 3DSMax) have taken over the software, and seem to sell it as Stitcher Unlimited online for £300.
Paul did mention Adobe Photoshop’s built in Photomerge option, but in CS3 it’s doesn’t give brilliant results. However, the upgraded CS4 Photoshop has been partly promoted on the back of enhancements to its built-in stitching app, so somebody should give it a try! Here’s the help, so get stitching if you’ve got CS4 and let us know how you get on. We can post results here.
As an extra incentive, if you do send us a panoramic photo, whether created in Flash, Stitcher, or CS4 alone, you’ll get an extra credit towards the next software raffle.
John (from Flash Oxford, hello!) then talked us through a couple of add-on apps for Flash which could achieve similar results. Paul’s panoramas require Quick Time to display, and apparently fewer people on PC have QT installed than the Flash Player. And I’m not paid to say that either.
Next month’s meeting is on Tuesday March 24th, so note the change of weekday. It’ll involve a talk about 3d Flash, so again, check here or the Flash Oxford web site for more details soon.
Alun
