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Lots of "varnish" and hype in Kevin Lynch's keynote here in Austin this morning... but laced with some substance as well. Some interesting Flash9 reveals, Flexbuilder demos, Apollo demos, and commemorative ƒ-branded sparkling apple juice all around.

In addition to the fact that all demos were shown in either the Linux player and/or on a Mac (yes, FlexBuilder 2.0 was running fine, for them), there were three cool Flash9 reveals:

* Import layered PSD files.
Respect all layers and groups, with control over import options for each layer individually (text or editable paths, add instance names, compression settings, etc.) They did not reveal the same compatibility for Illustrator, but when pressed, they did say that they have engineers from that team working closely with the Flash team.

* New menu item: Recreate Timeline Animation in Code
This is a big one, especially for designers (and the developers who love them). Adobe has hired Robert Penner to create animation classes that are used when this option is chosen. MXML is automatically written for you that exactly reproduces the timeline animation including all attributes (size, alpha, placement, easing, etc.). This code can be pasted into the actions panel or FlexBuilder.

* New AS3 components are being developed by Beau Amber and Grant Skinner.
Lighter weight and easily skinnable, to be released with Flash9.

Other notes:
- No updates to public alpha of AS3 until final product is shipped.
- Want DRM for Flash video? Use Apollo and create your own.
- Microsoft is making an appearance, with an online community product called "Wallop". (They are not advertising themselves as a MS product, that I heard from the PR girl at the bar last night.) To attend the info session, you must sign an NDA with one of the cheery girls at the desk outside the conference room. It felt a bit too much like a time-share sales session for me, so I passed. I'll wait for the tipsy geeks at the bar tonight and ply one of them for the details. :)
- Unfortunately, Kevin didn't give any hints about release dates for Flash9, outside of "next year".

More later!!

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