Adobe LiveMotion, shares the fate of Microsoft Liquid Motion.
Both applications were quoted as ‘Flash Killer’ various times.
Now, Microsoft will have a new ‘Flash Killer’ code named ‘Sparkle’ with LongHorn, it is reported. But this is clearly 2-3 years away.
On January 4, 2000, there were rumours of the Adobe’s “Flash Killer”.
On February 9, 2000 during keynote address at Seybold Boston, Adobe offered a peek at LiveMotion, the company’s new Web animation tool, the long-rumored Macromedia Flash “killer.” [source]
Microsoft discontinued Liquid Motion on January 26, 2000. (LM 1 was first released as a public beta early May 1998, around the same time Macromedia had the public beta of Flash 3).
LiveMotion 1.0 was released on May 22, 2000. [more]
LiveMotion 2.0 was released on January 7, 2002. [more]
Quoted from LiveMotion site (today):
“Adobe® LiveMotion® software is an essential tool for professional Web designers and developers who need to create dynamic, interactive content in a variety of formats, including Macromedia® Flash™ (SWF) and QuickTime.” This writes just above the ‘discontinuation’ announcement!
Adobe will discontinue LiveMotion 2.0 effective November 15, 2003.
If you are a developer planning a ‘Flash Killer’ application, make sure you don’t have ‘motion‘ in the name. It certainly won’t do any good.
And rather than a ‘Flash Killer’ application, a ‘Killer Flash’ application might be a wiser choice, if you ask me.
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http://www.peterjoel.com/blog/index.php?archive=2003_11_02_archive.xml
lol, nice summary : ). Another case of motion sickness. I never really ‘got’ Live Motion, it was trying to squeeze out an established player by offering fewer features. I’ve been looking at Avalon etc a lot recently, it seems pretty nice, but there is a lot of miles between a reasonably featured spec and a great tool for creating multimedia. Svg knows all about that. That and the $100.00+ ‘plugin’ fits on 2 dvd’s (or perhaps a single holoCube by the time it ships!). Still, something to watch for.
Great to see your writing here…
Cheers,
Robin
Also, my friend told me, that Adobe buys CoolEdit which is not so bad sound editor. But I believe Flash will survive. Flash is strong enough to be alive. [Loudly]: “and forever” %)
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haa! this was so refreshing.. thanks!
Also see:
http://www.asvguy.com/2005/04/adobe_and_macro.html
It seems 2 years after LiveMotion, Adobe will have the real thing.