Comments on: The XMP Revolution is Here

By: Getting Down and Dirty with XMP and AS3

Getting Down and Dirty with XMP and AS3 — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 06:10:28 +0000

[...] of the best ways to get started using XMP is to take a look at how Adobe is using it to embed speech-to-text data inside video files using Adobe [...]

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:21:27 +0000

Has the metadata we’ve been getting previously been in a different, non-XMP format? What is the format for the data we get from MetadataEvent.METADATA_RECEIVED for an FLVPlayback component, for instance?

By: Lee Hulteng

Lee Hulteng — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:37:37 +0000

I have a question about the File Info window in Photoshop. Maybe there is a simple answer, but I’ve not found it. And, maybe this is not the place to ask but I’ll try. Why does the window open in a fixed size, and is there a way it can be altered to fit a more horizontal space? I opened the File Info window on a small screen (like a laptop) and the CANCEL and OK buttons are off screen which then will not allow me to close the window or save changes. the top of the window is off the screen too. So I have to take the file to a larger screen to enter and save info. Thanks
Lee

By: Jake

Jake — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:23:50 +0000

Hey Brooks,

Thanks for the detailed comment. I really appreciate it. I’ll take a look at Kimili. Sounds great!

And thanks for pointing out my erroneous assumption concerning air. ;-) I was jumping to conclusions based on the chromeless nature of the app. Too bad AIR can’t handle that kind of stuff. Making some noise is a good idea.

Thanks again!

By: Brooks

Brooks — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 04:58:04 +0000

@Jake – Thanks. The Jing client is written in platform specific code (Cocoa on Mac and WPF on Windows). Jing has pretty deep hooks into the operating system (a no no for AIR) and on the video side uses some encoding libraries, third party and home brewed, that are probably a bit beyond the scope of AIR.

I’ve experimented with building a Jing style screen grab (static images) application using AIR and this would be fairly easy to accomplish except for the fact that you’re currently not allowed to capture the OS desktop with AIR (means you could only build a screen capture app that took grabs of the AIR application itself). I’d love to see Adobe empower us to do some of this stuff, so make some noise. :-)

If its any consolation, the new Jing playback wrapper (seen in this post) is a Flex application–we’re using the tech where we can.

As far as embedding goes, I use a plugin called kimili in conjunction with my WordPress install. Kimili provides the CDATA and SWFObject support inside of WP. The new Jing player supports a thumbnail, but I’m manually creating that thumbnail and uploading (yep that’s sucks, but I don’t get to dictate what Jing does). I do however use Jing’s custom embed code generation capabilities to create the Kimili embed syntax along with the URL’s to the media. I’ve done some posts on this in the past, but I’ll post the entire process again soon (probably not until the new year).

Whew…long response. Thanks for reading–I’ll try to be a little more helpful in the near future.

By: Jake

Jake — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 08:07:59 +0000

Hey Brooks!

Great content, man. I love your blog. I’m starting to use Jing and noticed that you are embedding your Jing files using JavaScript and CDATA tags and using a static .jpg prior to playback. Are you setting all of that up in Jing using the preferences panel and “Jing” tags? Would love to get an extremely brief tutorial on how you set that up.

BTW, Jing is amazing. What a great example of what can be done with AIR. Great work!!!

By: david

david — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:11:05 +0000

i want to know how i can use XMP in adobe AIR applications

By: Brooks

Brooks — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:21:00 +0000

@Troy – I’m having some issues with my blog template and those Jing wrappers in Firefox. Refresh a few times and it should come up, or just use Safari.

By: Brooks

Brooks — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:08:48 +0000

@Florian – This particular screencast was recorded with Jing as a SWF and brought into After Effects where titles were added and it was encoded to MPEG4-AVC.

I’m not permitted to say much about what Jing will or won’t do in the future, but I will say anyone interested should keep their eyes open as we enter the new year. :-)

By: troy stein

troy stein — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:35:00 +0000

I’m in way over my head, except for the marketing video at the end. :0) I appreciate you letting me read it.

FYI, for some reason the 3rd video doesn’t load for me. http://screencast.com/t/QcTQwYE8

By: People Over Process » Links for November 17th

People Over Process » Links for November 17th — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:59:09 +0000

[...] The XMP Revolution is Here"Now if only I can wrangle a few devs at work into writing XMP into the video files that TechSmith tooling creates. I’m talking cursor info, open application info, html links, captioning, callouts, quizing, the works. I’d literally be swimming in data and that my friends would make me one dangerous hombre (at least in my own mind)." [...]

By: People Over Process » All Platform, All the Time - Adobe MAX, Day 1

People Over Process » All Platform, All the Time - Adobe MAX, Day 1 — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:29:34 +0000

[...] and the BPM world of LiveCycle. And there’s plenty of excitement in Creative Suite land (XMP is an especially dorky thing that lays the lattice for niftiness, e.g., transcripts and Overlay.tv-like functionality native in [...]

By: Florian

Florian — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:21:01 +0000

Hey, thanks. That’s very interesting. I’ll have to check this out.

By the way, did you really record the screencast with Jing (or is it Camtasia 6)? Because it’s MPEG-4 and I thought that Jing is only able to record in SWF files.