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Hollywood Designer 3.0 announcement
« on: October 17, 2010, 01:24:00 PM »
After almost 3 years of development, Airsoft Softwair is very proud to announce the long awaited third incarnation of our famous Hollywood Designer. Hollywood Designer 3.0 is a multimedia authoring system that runs on top of Hollywood and can be used to create all sorts of multimedia based applications; for example presentations, slide shows, simple games, and programs. Thanks to Hollywood, all multimedia applications created using Hollywood Designer can be exported as stand-alone executables for the following systems: AmigaOS3, AmigaOS4, WarpOS, MorphOS, AROS (x86), Windows (x86), Mac OS X (PPC), Mac OS X (x86). This is a feature that is truly unique in the Amiga world.

Hollywood Designer 3.0 is a huge update and has endless new features and improvements over the previous versions. We do not want to bore you, so here are just some of them:

* Support for global project timeline: allows scheduling of slides in millisecond precision! (great for sync'ing slides and music)
* Introducing action events for much more artistic freedom
* Almost 40 different action events are supported!
* Unlimited number of effects can run simultaneously
*Unlimited number of anims can run simultaneously
* Incredibly powerful effect handler: page effects can run simultaneously with object effects
* Thumbnail view of all slides in the project
* Support for hotkeys during presentation mode (pause, forward, backward...)
* Event system completely redesigned - much more powerful now!
* All fonts can be linked into executables generated by Designer - no more worries about missing fonts!
* Support for platform independent text rendering: TrueType text looks exactly the same now on every system!
* Text objects can be rotated and distorted now, too
* Support for real layer transparency and tinting
* Inbuilt scaling engine allows promotion of projects to any screen mode
* Layer z-order is no longer tied to order of layer appearance
* On-the-fly animation of layers is possible using a special action event inspired by DPaint's "Move" functionality
* Mouse pointer can be changed during presentation
* GIF anims can be embedded in projects
* Supports cool new MUI 4.0 features (MorphOS version only)
* Added support for object anchor points
* Over 50 new transition effects
* UTF-8 support for all text objects
* Buttons are handled completely asynchronously now
* Projects can now be exported as AVI videos
* Lots of other changes, optimizations and bug fixes

Without a doubt, Hollywood Designer 3.0 is the definitive multimedia solution for all Amiga compatible platforms, but as a picture is worth a thousand words, we have made some screenshots of Hollywood Designer 3.0 running on MorphOS 2.6. You can view them on our web site.
      
Hollywood Designer 3.0 is a very stable and mature multimedia authoring system. We would like to emphasize that it is not only suited for personal use, but also for professional commercial customers. Ferrule Media, for instance, have created an info channel containing over 700 unique slides in a single project with Hollywood Designer. Hollywood Designer was designed to handle these huge projects efficiently so that they can run 24 hours a day and 7 days a week without any visible memory fragmentation!

Hollywood Designer 3.0 will be available exclusively for AmigaOS 3 (m68k), AmigaOS 4 (ppc), and MorphOS (ppc). It is scheduled for release around Christmas 2010. Please visit the Airsoft Softwair homepage for more information and screenshots.
 

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Re: Hollywood Designer 3.0 announcement
« Reply #1 on: October 17, 2010, 05:51:16 PM »
Great, looks good!

Just one question, do you have a URL pointing to the Demo Version?  Website still has old info on the previous 2.1 version. :(

Included it on my website that will be arriving in November, here is the temporary web address where the site is parked:  Constructive feedback always taken on board.  Unconstructive feedback like why isn't MorphOS and AROS mentioned will be ignored.

http://www.uploads.beaverpromotions.co.uk/amiga/apps.html

Ah nvm, not released yet, haah should read it all.
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Offline Matt_H

Re: Hollywood Designer 3.0 announcement
« Reply #2 on: October 17, 2010, 06:44:19 PM »
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* Projects can now be exported as AVI videos

Bingo! This is a critical feature. :)
 

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Re: Hollywood Designer 3.0 announcement
« Reply #3 on: October 17, 2010, 06:53:30 PM »
Great news: thanks for supporting the Amiga and your hard work with this project.
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Re: Hollywood Designer 3.0 announcement
« Reply #4 on: October 17, 2010, 07:59:25 PM »
It seems to be very very interesting!
Is it like TV TOOLS (AMIGA) from TECSOFT IMAGES? (or SCALA MM?)
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Re: Hollywood Designer 3.0 announcement
« Reply #5 on: October 17, 2010, 08:20:03 PM »
Quote from: softwarefailure;585274
Hollywood Designer 3.0 will be available exclusively for AmigaOS 3 (m68k), AmigaOS 4 (ppc), and MorphOS (ppc). It is scheduled for release around Christmas 2010. Please visit the Airsoft Softwair homepage for more information and screenshots.


Ive been waiting for this and hoping it would arrive on AROS. Is there any technical reason there is a 3.x version and not one for AROS?

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Re: Hollywood Designer 3.0 announcement
« Reply #6 on: October 17, 2010, 11:18:02 PM »
I like the idea of AVI output. :-)

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Re: Hollywood Designer 3.0 announcement
« Reply #7 on: October 18, 2010, 06:48:19 AM »
Very good news, thank you Andreas!!!
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Re: Hollywood Designer 3.0 announcement
« Reply #8 on: October 18, 2010, 04:24:10 PM »
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Ive been waiting for this and hoping it would arrive on AROS. Is there any technical reason there is a 3.x version and not one for AROS?

Good question. Maybe it has to do with current lack of a stable ABI, maybe it's due to the little community of AROS users (but it's only a temporary issue, since AROS acceptance is growing). Anyway, AROS users can use the 3.x version as well, under emulation =)
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Re: Hollywood Designer 3.0 announcement
« Reply #9 on: October 19, 2010, 09:50:46 PM »
Congratulations to Airsoft Softwair!

We have been using Designer 3.0 for some time now, and I the software is amazing! Version 3.0 is really a powerful tool to create both software and presentations.
The stability is also superb – the 700pages-project Airsoft Softwair is talking about is not a simple slideshow but a program called Dental Info. Each page is pretty complex containing 25-50 objects to create interactive menus and navigation-system. The source code alone is 10 mb and Designer has no problems at all handling it. Being able to compile this into an executable that works on all flavors of Windows is great!

In my eyes Hollywood Designer 3.0 is the most exciting software released for the amiga + clones for several years! I'm looking forward to see what other users comes up with once they get their hands on Designer.

Screenshots of the Designer-made Dental Info are present at here.

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Re: Hollywood Designer 3.0 announcement
« Reply #10 on: January 08, 2011, 06:31:28 PM »
Does anybody know anything about the release?