Feature Requesteritis: Adobe Comes to Town

Today, I made the kind folks from Adobe endure a two hour meeting about our wishes for future versions of their video and imaging products. Both Steven Warner-Swirsky, Director Engineering of the Digital Video Group, and Bruce Bullis who's responsible for the APIs of their video products, were most kind to come visit us in Stockholm. Thanks to Fredrik Johannesson for setting up the meeting!

In return, we much too quickly demonstrated what might be the world's first use of Flash for realtime data-driven broadcast election graphics in fullscreen. In two weeks we'll know if we can see the death of yet another broadcast dinosaur, or if the bleeding edge of realtime graphics became too sharp. :-)
I'll try to post an interview from behind the scenes of the development of the software and the system, plus some photos from the election night live show. I'll unfortunately be manning a realtime graphics system from the dinosaur, but I have high hopes for the future development of Flash as a broadcast system.

On top of my wishlists for AE was better support for import and export of 3D data and renders (I want my cameras, nulls, lights and render passes), 16-bit float modes like Shake, GUI-plugins like radio buttons so I can create easier-to-use Animation Presets with choosable options (unlike this one that consists of several presets,) plus integration of the entire feature set of Nucleo Pro right into the AE box. Oh, and throw in a script recorder so that I could easily create the foundations for a script that could then be tweaked.