I just read that Adobe is going to buy Macromedia. Ever since I touched that atrocity named “Flash”, I've been hoping that this would happen. I'm sure anyone who's ever dealt with Macromedia's “Freehand” will also let out a big sigh of relief. I won't say it's a brilliant move, because I don't know of a single good Macromedia product. Only that entrenched Flash thing...

Although, it's actually doubtful that Adobe will fix Macromedia's products, because their users would get all confused. In the past, when I've had to work in such environments that required dealing with “designers”, I've found that Mac users are only surpassed in cluelessness by Freehand users. That's saying a lot, since I've had a Mac designer tell me that Windows can't “draw a smooth line”.

As far as Flash... Adobe has a Flash product. “InMotion”. And for actually doing animation, it rocks Flash. But Adobe is not really that great at doing motion products. Their still-image stuff is the best, but Premiere, After Effects... blah. If you want to see what some REAL compositing/editing software is like, try out: www.discreet.com.

Now, if discreet (Autodesk) could just manage to get Adobe, we'd be living in a nice world. This is in spite of Microsoft selling off Softimage to *horror* Avid. Microsoft should have worked on a fork of Softimage, scaled down to home users. Movie Maker|DS anybody?