Adobe Bordeaux, the new tool oriented to designers for creating Flash Content

Heard the following rumors about a new tool , Adobe Bordeaux (via Beedigital), to create Flash contents without programming with Actionscritp 3 language.

Features:

- Easily create buttons, menus, slideshows, video controllers and other interactive components
- Customise the look and behavior of interactive components included with Bordeaux
- Visually convert artwork to interactive elements without coding
- Trigger actions and events from markers you add to your video and audio
- Create multi-page microsites as easily as dragging and dropping
- Make objects and text move, spin, resize, reveal, slide, bounce, fade, and more without using keyframes or code
- Easily control how motion responds to mouse events
- Import, trim, and encode video files into FLV
- Add audio and trim and adjust levels
- Import native Photoshop files as layers
- Import InDesign files with pages and objects preserved as individual elements
- Output efficient SWF or Adobe AIR files

Comments

[John Dowdell]

I think you may be reading too much into this. It sounds like Chad got some type of market survey, and these cover all types of proposals. I don't see anything on the Adobe website which mentions an actual release.

jd/adobe

[Chad]

John,
You are right... I did get some sort of a Market Research survey, and it did mention Bordeaux, with the list of features as above and mentioned on my blog.

Simply thought it was too juicy of a rumor not to share. Sounds like a great project. If you can create classed FLA files with a prepopulated/structured library and the associated AS3 files in shareable project, I am all for it... sounds like that is kinda what Thermo would produce but for MXML, whereas this tool is a Flash designer/developer integration point.

[John Dowdell]

I figured as much Chad, no worries. ;-)

I know that Adobe is exploring a whole bunch of projects these days, and that all are strongly shaped by ongoing feedback. Of the projects that reach completion, most change a bit by the time they reach it. That's why I take my cues from what the group actually commits to, on the website itself.

A hint of a possible future, that may be the best way to read a question in a focus group. ;-)

tx, jd/adobe