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Adobe discontinues development of LiveMotion 2.0

updated 01:35 pm EST, Fri November 21, 2003

LiveMotion discontinued


Earlier this week, Adobe announced it would , its tool for professional Web designers and developers to create dynamic, interactive content in both Flash (SWF) and QuickTime formats, according to a posting on its Website: "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. Adobe will maintain person-to-person technical support for LiveMotion until March 31, 2004. In addition, complimentary technical support will be available until further notice via the Adobe Support Knowledgebase and User to User Forums on the Adobe Web site."


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    Lame Duck

    While more intuitive to use for animation than Flash, it was never going to make it without a solid scripting language.

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    shame

    Though not as powerful, LiveMotion was a great animation tool for those who find Flash a but difficult to pick up. It was a great easy way to make animated flash type banners, and such graphics quickly and easily. Flash is backasswards and difficult to pick up without dedicating days and weeks to learning basic animation principles. Those same animation/timetable principles with LiveMotion could be learned in a few hours.

    But, that's about as far as it went with ability. Flash is more powerful once you learn it.

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    so, basically...

    ...flash wins. hail to the king, baby.

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    Right on

    I'm not a big fan of Flash.. however, [to Adobe].. don't mess with Macromedia Flash..

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    It had postential

    If Adobe had just given us Illustrator with the After Effects timeline and a scripting language they would ahave had a serious Flash-killer on their hands. Instead they decided to 'rescue' the worthless ImageStlyer and give us LiveMotion.

    My hatred for the Flash authoring environment is exceeded only by my disappointment that no one else has been able to do it better yet.

    Protip for Macromedia:
    A TIMELINE IS NOT A VERY GOOD WAY FOR PEOPLE TO AUTHOR INTERACTIVE PRODUCTS WHICH USUALLY DON'T OCCUR IN A LINEAR FASHION.

    ahem.

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    good riddance!

    Had some really cool potential - mostly timeline related - the rest was unpredictable garbage - SEE YA!!

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    maybe...

    macromedia can now "adopt" the after effects handling of animation that livemotion used (and was possibly its one true killer feature), now that LM is out of the running. perhaps they'll incoporate it into macromedia flash mx 2006 pro SE, or whatever mangled name they decide to curse it with by then...

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    Will Adobe exit web?

    Just a general question - how does GoLive compete against Dreamweaver?

    Will Adobe focus on Acrobat, video & print related technologies and less on the web? Acrobat could continue to focus on the web and dynamic PDF documents.

    Macromedia seems purely focused on web with Freehand and Director as somewhat odd characters in the family. I love Director for projects and never used Freehand. I miss SoundEdit 16 updates. :)

    Since I invested in the GoLive/LM 2.0 bundle, can I get a discount off the new CS packages? ;)

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    flash sucks anyway

    too bad this does nothing to mitigate the plethora of bad, boring, self-indulgent Flash intros and navbars on the web.

    Flash is great for interactive stuff, but just insuferable as a substitute for straightforward DHTML.

    http://www.zombo.com

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    re: it had potential

    Protip for Macromedia:
    A TIMELINE IS NOT A VERY GOOD WAY FOR PEOPLE TO AUTHOR INTERACTIVE PRODUCTS WHICH USUALLY DON'T OCCUR IN A LINEAR FASHION.

    The new Flash Proffesional version, or whatever they call it, has an option to work timeline-less. It's sort of Flash reworked for programmers.

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