Public Beta of Adobe Creative Suite 3?

[SPUY767]

Adobe are dragging the chain. They couldn't even release the new After Effects as a UB version for goodness sake!

Adobe left the Apple video editing market because it was getting hammered by FCS. FinalCut Pro does almost everything that AfterEffects will, and if you need any better compositing than FCS and Plug-ins offer, then you've probably got a copy of Shake. And with an app like Motion making motion graphics much less time consuming to produce, on the Mac side there is no need for After Effects. There is no money in spending the time developing AfterEffects for the new Macs.

 

[YS2003]

C'mon, this isn't Microsoft. ...............Adobe Betas are typically nearly production grade (in my experience), hell, I'm sure that MS would like their RC stuff to be as reliable as Adobe betas.

It is good to hear that Adobe's Beta has a good reputation to be very stable and usable. I hope Adobe will make the CS2 and CS3 files compatible with each other.

 

[Blue Velvet]

It is good to hear that Adobe's Beta has a good reputation to be very stable and usable. I hope Adobe will make the CS2 and CS3 files compatible with each other.

I don't have much faith that it will. InDesign Exchange files or default EPSs that aren't backwards compatible, anyone? Exporting stuff is a pain.

 

[spookje]

Yep, announcement thursday, downloading at friday...

 

[kainjow]

Adobe Photoshop CS3 beta to drop this friday

People familiar with the Macintosh version of the editor confirm it to be a Universal Binary which "simply screams" on Apple Computer's new Intel-based hardware.

I might just buy a CS2 license to try out the CS3 beta, simply for being an Intel binary finally. I'd actually hope that they don't do a universal binary, since that would be pretty big file size.

 

[failsafe1]

OK all you faithful Macrumor readers with a CS2 license. Download and post results and screen shots for us lowly CS users who don't have serial number. Good news all round!!