Come and join the Oxford Adobe Groups for a social event for the summer.

Flash Oxford, Adobe CS Oxford (aka Oxford Dreamweaver User Group), and Premiere and Post, are having an informal pub gathering to network and chat. Just turn up, grab a drink, and help us thrash out ideas for future events. As ever, it’s free to attend, and there’s no ongoing committment to this volunteer led networking group for creative professionals.

You can RSVP and comment on our Adobe Groups page

The Time: 7.30 – 9.30pm
Venue: Far From the Madding Crowd pub, Oxford

Directions: It’s down the alley between Gloucester Green and Magdalen Street. Travelling up from Cornmarket, go past Debenhams then turn left after trying to buy a latte at Starbucks in the old Borders and before buying your sweater from Jaeger.

Or look at a map. Maps are good.

Adobe CS5 unleashes new ways to generate amazing work, collaborate effectively, and deliver virtually anywhere.

We’ll have screen demos of CS5 software at work, presentations, and plenty of time for networking and chat.

There’s a free drink for the first 30 and Flash Oxford are presenting their award for the best Flash animation/game entered into their competition.

RSVP at our Adobe Groups page (you’ll need to sign in to Adobe)

The Time: 7.30 – 9.30pm

Venue: The Vistors’ Room,  Malmaison Hotel, Oxford.
We’re delighted that Malmaison have very kindly agreed to allow us to hold this event in their Visitors Room at their Hotel in the centre of Oxford. This is the old prison building. Hop in a getaway car from the station and ask the taxi driver to take you to the prison. Follow these directions, or simply put OX1 1ND into your Global Positioning Hot Hotel Seeking System.
Oxford Castle
3 New Rd, Oxford, OX1 1AY (or OX1 1ND for Sat Nav)

Please note both the change of day (it’s on a Tuesday) and venue (it’s NOT at OFVM!).

Thanks!

Introducing the Open Source Media Framework with Jodie O’Rourke

The idea behind OSMF is to reduce the complexity involved in developing media players (particularly video players), and in doing so, lower the barriers-to-entry to allow many more developers to create unique and engaging players. OSMF aggregates fixes for many of the problems that other developers have toiled over, meaning you can build rapidly, safe in knowledge that your output will be stable. As a business, the standardisation of player development means that new developers should be able to join your team with relative ease, and become productive in less time.

Jodie will introduce the main features of the latest OSMF build and demonstrate some examples with code.

Venue

OFVM film oxford
54 Catherine Street
Oxford, Oxfordshire OX4 3AH

http://bit.ly/ofvm-loco

Good links stuff:

• Jodie
• Flash Oxford
• Open Source Media Framework
• OFVM

After a short overview of the ever-expanding Flash Platform, we will have a live demo of Flash Builder 4. To liven things up Flash Oxford have challenged Dreamweaver Oxford to a design smackdown.   The task is to produce a web app in just 30 minutes from scratch (well, almost from scratch). How much easier, better, and sexier is Flash Builder compared to Dreamweaver and associated tools? Join a team and help John, Tim, Alun and Glenn avoid public humiliation!

This will be followed by free pizzas and the prize giveaways. (Please RSVP email@flashoxford.com with your pizza topping request).

Prizes this month

• Two copies of Flash Builder 4 and Cold Fusion Builder 4 to be won.
• Adobe quality T-shirts
• Dreamweaver Oxford’s raffle: Adobe software to be won.*

http://www.adobe.com/flashplatform/

Hope to see you at OFVM next Thursday night!

54 Catherine Street
Oxford
OX4 3AH

http://bit.ly/ofvm-loco

Advance notice: the next meeting is Thursday May 20th – the Flash group has a visit from Jodie O’Rourke to talk about Adobe’s Open Source Media Framework.

And don’t forget, you can get a free trial of Flash Builder straight away, and you can pre-order Adobe CS5.

http://flashoxford.com/

http://www.dreamweaveroxford.com/

*Remember, for the Dreamweaver group, the more times you’ve attended this year, the more chances you have to win, and if you speak at an event, or introduce a speaker, you get yet more chances. You will receive a serial number for the single Adobe product of your choice up to a value of $2100.

You can pre-order – expected shipment date is mid May according to the site.

Watch the launch video online – see previous post.

cs5launch.adobe.com

Follow: www.twitter.com/creativesuite/

www.facebook.com/creativesuite/

Today, Google is releasing the initial integration of Flash Player with Chrome in their developer channel, behind a command line flag. Moving forward, Google will be including Flash Player in Chrome so users will always have the most current release and a safer and more seamless experience. To learn more about this integration you can visit the Chromium Blog.

thanks to all who attended last night’s action packed session. Because there were a few hitches with my very own opening session, here are a few links.

Prezi.com – the cool presentation tool.

The CS5 Photoshop preview feature: content-aware deletion on John Nack’s blog. Also check CS5.org for rumours

Thanks to Glenn for the Adobe Browserlab overview. Don’t forget to get your free Adobe ID so you can log in, and also so you can access our Adobe Groups page.

Thanks to Andy Hall for the Premiere and Post chromakey demonstration using Premiere and After Effects, and to John for the FFD magazine overview.

Next month there will be a presentation about Flash Builder 4 – Adobe’s new release for the more code-oriented Flash users amongst you.

Suggestions for speakers, topics, venues, are always welcome, just drop us a line on info@dreamweaveroxford.com or via our contact form.

The three current Oxford based Adobe User Groups will hold a joint meeting where discussions and demonstrations will include:

Dreamweaver / Photoshop. For the Dreamweaver group, Alun will give a fabulous presentation about Prezi, the Flash presentation tool, using … Prezi, the fabulous Flash presentation tool!

Glenn will walk us through Adobe’s BrowserLab.

Flash. Flash Oxford will review the latest issues of Flash and Flex Developer Magazine (FFD).

Premiere & Post. Premiere & Post will give a demo on chromakey in Premiere & After Effects using key light plug-in, (including editing of After Effect compositions on the premiere timeline.)

In other news, Flash Builder 4 has now been officially released:

http://www.adobe.com/flashplatform/

Hope to see you at OFVM on Thursday night!

54 Catherine Street
Oxford
OX4 3AH

Find us.

http://groups.adobe.com/groups/6c54b074f9/summary

Flash Oxford, Friday February 26th

7.30pm at OFVM / Film Oxford

After an extended Christmas break the Flash User Group starts afresh this Friday. We have been working hard to come up with monthly themes to take us through the year. As ever we are hoping to cater for a wide range of Flash users and provide an opportunity for informally meeting other Flash users. We also will continue our regular software give- aways.

This month we will look at Camtasia. This is a screen recording software suite that allows you to record a presentation or tutorial to a video file. You can then edit and save the result as flash web page.

There are some great features in this package and John Twycross will demonstrate how to use it and also how he has used it to teach animation. TechSmith, the makers of the software, have given us a free copy of Camtasia and Snagit to give away on the night.

Tim Watts will be introducing a competition to take place of the Adobe software raffle entitled “Slapdash”. The winner of the competition will win an Adobe software bundle worth over $2000. More details will be revealed on the night.

Finally to round off the night we will have a Flash Surgery. This is an opportunity to ask for help or advice on any projects or ideas you are working on. Feel free to bring along any work to show. This is an open session where you should not be embarrassed to ask questions and join in the discussion.

We hope to see you there.

John Twycross | Flash Oxford

email@flashoxford.com

http://www.flashoxford.com

Venue:

OFVM Film Oxford
54 Catherine Street
Oxford
OX4 3AH