Join MAX Master Jason Levine as he teaches the essential skills required for producing quality audio for your video productions. Our focus will be on Adobe Audition, along with a discussion of integration with Adobe Premiere Pro.In this session, you’ll learn how to:• Remove background noise to save your recording• Work with multitrack sequences for total control over audio mixing• Retime audio and automatically sync your sound in Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Audition

Demystify the process of 3D animation with Adobe After Effects, which not only offers features for working in 3D, but also serves as a stepping-stone to more advanced 3D programs. In this session, MAX Master Colin Smith will help you dip your toes into the water of 3D animation and compositing.You’ll learn how to:• Track 3D elements with complete control over depth of field, shadows, and reflections• Extrude text and shapes into 3D using After Effects and Adobe Illustrator• Work with advanced 3D programs alongside After Effects

Join in the fun for one of the most entertaining sessions at MAX, where Adobe worldwide design evangelists compete against each other in a creative cage match. From Photoshop to Illustrator, InDesign to Adobe Muse and Adobe Digital Publishing Suite — there's no telling what amazing tricks and techniques you'll pick up while they attempt to out-do each other.Come cheer on our participants:• Rufus Deuchler: World-renowned designer, author, teacher, and presenter, he's dedicated to helping creative pros bridge the gap between knowledge and application of publishing software programs.• Terry White: He's a best-selling author, fan-favorite presenter, avid photographer, Adobe Certified Expert and Creative Suite Master, with over 30,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel and over 19,000 followers on Twitter. White is a force to be reckoned with!

Adobe Prelude helps you review, ingest, log, select, and export video, similar to how Photoshop Lightroom is used with images. Join MAX Master Jason Levine for an introduction to Prelude that will help you get the most out of this powerful production tool.In this session, you'll learn how to:• Organize your media from a shoot• Leverage the power of metadata to log your footage• Speed up your editing process using the unique logging features in Prelude

Art Director Chris Georgenes talks about his game Sausage Kong, and uses Adobe Photoshop Touch  to create characters from the game. He also explains how he sees Tablet Apps improving his workflow.

Check out the awards ceremony from the 2011 MAX conference in Los Angeles CA.

Creative Director Brian Yap talks about his work in Adobe Ideas, and how it allows him to design anywhere.

In this episode, Ron Santos shows you a sneak peek of a potential new way to use Adobe AIR to create applications that communicate with the physical world via Near Field Communications (NFC).

Learn how to use Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5.5 to create rich, engaging prototypes and application interfaces. This session will introduce you to features in Flash Catalyst CS5.5 that enable your team to build compelling, Flex-based projects. It will cover the concepts and workflow involved in using Flash Catalyst and show you how to use Flash Catalyst to enhance static designs created in Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop and easily integrate with Adobe Flash Builder. Even if you've used Flash Catalyst before, you'll want to attend this session to discover the many new features offered in the latest version.

Hear from Peter Ryce and Alistair Lee, Adobe Connect evangelists, about how you can modify an existing Flex application, or create a new one, to offer rich collaboration features when used in an Adobe Connect meeting room. They will demonstrate how the free Adobe Connect Collaboration SDK lets Flex developers create views based on role, synchronize data within meetings, and communicate with other objects within the Adobe Connect meeting environment.

Come to this session to learn the best techniques to create 2D Adobe Flash technology–based games for the consumer TV space. With the introduction of Adobe AIR for the digital home, game developers using Flash can now expand their work to yet another platform, while reusing the same code base and tools (Flash Professional CS5.5, Flash Builder 4.5.1, and so on). Paul Clancy, lead developer at PlayJam, will talk in depth about TV game types, screen constraints, input methods, best practices, publishing, and distribution. Don't miss the opportunity to take your games to the big screen.

Learn how Adobe OnLocation, Adobe Premiere Pro, and Adobe Audition — all included in Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium — can help you shoot and produce a successful interview. Interviews are a very efficient way of creating content — inexpensive to produce, effective for gathering and presenting information, and easy to edit.

Learn how Adobe will be deploying language resources, or "language packs," to mobile applications in the field. Cloud-based localization will enable sending language updates and fixes to applications within minutes. This will eliminate the cumbersome need to build and test new installers for each localization update, as well as the need to push these through the delivery channels. The new approach allows rapid turnaround and supports frequent product releases and their often small increments, keeping in line with standard agile development practices.

Join Tom Nguyen and Thibault Imbert, product managers for the Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR runtimes, for a deep dive into all the new features introduced in Flash Player 11 and AIR 3. The web is going to change, and this session will show you how to be prepared.

Learn how to use Adobe InDesign CS5.5 and Adobe Digital Publishing Suite to create and deliver engaging applications on tablet devices. Leave this session with a good understanding of the workflow and technology required to build interactive documents that combine the beauty of print with the engagement of rich media to create an all-new reading experience on the latest touch screen devices.

Build essential Adobe Photoshop CS5 skills to produce images that look great, load fast on the web, and work well in Adobe Flash Professional. We'll reveal optimization techniques for making images look their best, debunk web resolution myths, show quick and easy ways to correct composition, tone, and color, and demonstrate how to recover image detail using Camera Raw on JPEG files. You'll learn how to automate many common tasks without creating complex Photoshop Actions, plus discover many other Photoshop shortcuts. By adopting these workflow tips, you’ll save time on everyday tasks and have more fun.

Join Aaron Pedersen and James Polanco, the developers of WorkflowLab and Maque, as they discuss desktop development best practices, review common issues often missed by developers, and look at how the new Adobe AIR 3 features are making AIR for desktops an even more powerful technology option for cross-platform applications.

Customer Experience Management allows a new way of thinking about delivering digital experiences in the enterprise; reframing the problem not just as a technology challenge, but as a design opportunity. Join Steven Webster, Senior Director in Adobe’s Technology and Innovation group as he invites a panel of Adobe’s user-experience leaders and innovative customers, to share their work, best-practices and learnings in designing solutions for today’s digital enterprise.

Enjoy 10 short demos that showcase Adobe's Web Experience Management solution, part of the Adobe Digital Enterprise Platform. This quick introduction will equip you with a broad overview of functionality, technology, and integration points to other Adobe products including Adobe Creative Suite and Online Marketing Suite.

Work anywhere with Adobe mobile apps and get professional results. In this session, you'll get an overview of creative mobile apps. Learn which apps are best for you and get a sneak peek at what's new. You won't want to miss this!

Join the team at Buck for a fast-paced, inspiring session showcasing high-impact creative projects developed using Adobe tools. Specializing in design-driven creative, Buck's directors and artists use animation, visual effects, and live action to collaborate with clients and produce work that is visceral, innovative, and diverse. You'll leave with new ideas and inspiration for creating memorable, engaging content for use across industries and devices.

Discover the principles of design that can lead to the creation of visually compelling cross-platform applications. ThRead is a collaborative project between Adobe and renowned design company Method. It is a unique reader application that allows the simultaneous consumption and organization of information, created using the newest mobile development features in the Adobe Flex SDK. We'll take you through some collaborative processes that worked for us throughout design and development.

Be sure to attend this session if you want to know more about how to use Adobe Alchemy in real projects. Alchemy enables the conversion of C and C++ code into high-performance ActionScript bytecode for use in Adobe Flash and Adobe AIR applications.

Explore new techniques in Adobe Creative Suite that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Work more efficiently with shared content by mastering Smart Objects; benefit from tips and tricks for placing native content in Adobe InDesign and other components; and learn how to reuse print content for your web designs, share swatches and other content, and much more.

See how illustrator and animator Sanjay Patel uses images to craft compelling stories. From over 14 years of work at Pixar to his visually rich illustrations of the Hindu mythology of Ramayana, Patel will share his artistic methods, including how he goes from paper, pen, and pencil to highly detailed work in Adobe Illustrator.

Get the scoop on Adobe Edge, a new motion and interaction design tool for HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. Adobe Fellow Mark Anders will demonstrate how to build beautiful, interactive HTML that incorporates rich design and motion. He'll also show you the standards-based code that Edge generates and how to enhance it. Get an edge on expanding your expertise as a next-generation designer for the web.

Jump-start your designs! In this lively session, Rufus Deuchler, Adobe's worldwide evangelist for design, will deliver killer tips and cool techniques for your favorite Adobe design tools: Photoshop CS5, Illustrator CS5, and InDesign CS5.5. Productivity, accuracy, and creativity are what this session is all about.

Come hear the latest news about Adobe AIR, a runtime that allows developers to build applications for a wide range of devices including Android powered smartphones and tablets, the iPad and iPhone, BlackBerry PlayBook, TVs, and desktop computers. In this session, we'll provide a review of basic code samples and discuss new capabilities available to developers for building AIR apps. In addition, you'll have an opportunity to explore upcoming features with members of the product team.

See exciting new developments in academic publishing on mobile devices. This session will showcase periodical and research-oriented projects initiated at Case Western Reserve University and Indiana University that use Adobe Digital Publishing Suite for publishing scholarly information to the next generation of tablet devices. Learn about the unique requirements and challenges of publishing such documents and how to make the best use of multimedia and interactive design. Plus, explore how to employ the analytic features supported by Digital Publishing Suite for conveying complex information.

Join this session to learn how to use analytics and testing data from the Adobe Online Marketing Suite to make better decisions about creative design. You'll hear from Adobe's marketing experts, who will share industry insights on what works and what doesn't when it comes to creative campaigns for digital content. This session will highlight use cases from the Online Marketing Suite, including Adobe SiteCatalyst and Adobe Test&Target.

Dive deep into the new ActionScript worker API with Jason Williams, senior Flash Player engineer, and Krzysztof Palacz, senior computer scientist on the virtual machine. During this session, Williams and Palacz will cover how this new feature works and how to design your application using ActionScript workers in Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR. If you're curious about leveraging multicore architecture in Flash, this is one session you shouldn't miss!

End users today expect the same experience from the legacy systems they use in the office as the social systems they experience at home. In this session you'll learn how to extend and enhance your existing back-end applications using Flex, Adobe AIR, and Data Services to leverage legacy data sources with .NET Adapters, IIS plug-ins, or the SAP Connector for Data Services.

Find out how to leverage Adobe After Effects to create engaging and rich online advertising campaigns. Learn how PointRoll combines the power of After Effects with Adobe Flash Professional to create compelling and highly interactive rich media that's ready for the multiscreen environment. In this session, you'll also find out how to optimize your video for web deployment, establish best practices, embed metadata/cue point markers for integration with Flash, and use tracking data from mocha for After Effects CS5.5 (included with After Effects) to enable dynamic video.

Take a deep dive with us into the architecture behind a successful mobile video deployment, highlighting how the rapid growth of smartphones and tablets is unlocking new opportunities for companies to reach millions of of users. This session will cover the Flex mobile framework, encoding, the video player architecture, monetization, authentication, delivery, protection, and tracking. It will provide best practices to optimize for different hardware platforms, screen sizes, and network conditions with a single codebase and provide an outlook for future trends and technologies.

Learn how to extend compositions created in Adobe Edge and integrate them into existing web pages. Josh Hatwich, Adobe senior computer scientist, will walk you through its JavaScript runtime and show you how to integrate projects made with Edge in real-world scenarios, such as deploying to a content management system, integrating with dynamic data, or extending compositions by adding interactivity.

Learn techniques and lessons from real-world mobile application development, including UI/skinning approaches, custom components, platform integration, application architecture, and device dependent considerations. You'll come away better prepared to embrace the industry-shifting paradigm change that mobile development promises.

Check out the roadmap for the Adobe Flash Platform. In this session, the Adobe Flash Platform product managers will present an overview of what they're planning for the next major versions of Flex, Adobe Flash Builder, Adobe Flash Player, and Adobe AIR.

Join the Adobe Video Solutions product management team to learn more about the key technologies used to deliver high-quality and fault-tolerant live and on-demand video experiences, and see some eye-popping demonstrations from broadcasters using the technologies today. During this session, you'll learn about Adobe Flash Media Server with HTTP streaming, Flash Player and Adobe AIR for desktop and devices, HTML5, Open Source Media Framework, Adobe Flash Access, Adobe Pass for TV Everywhere, and how companies have put these technologies together to deliver some of the largest video events on the planet.

Learn how Adobe Document Exchange Services can save you time and money. See how Adobe customers are using cloud-based solutions to accelerate business results, including: •Adobe EchoSign – Securely sign, send, track, and store contracts online •Adobe FormsCentral – Easily create, distribute, collect, and analyze online forms and surveys •Adobe SendNow – Instantly send and manage digital documents without the hassle of overnight delivery services and FTP sites •Adobe CreatePDF and ExportPDF – Create PDF documents online and convert PDF files to Word •Acrobat.com – Improve team collaboration with web conferencing and shared workspaces

Dive into the details with ESRI and the City of Boston to hear how they built and deployed a critical application across desktops and devices. The City of Boston needed an executive dashboard for the mayor to "see" the state of the city in situations such as snowstorms. It was originally intended to be web-based and displayed in City Hall; however, Adobe Flash Builder 4.5.1 and a good MVC pattern implementation have paved the way for iPad app development. This avant-garde approach has motivated city officials to evaluate how else they can apply the app.

Learn how to use Stage 3D (aka "Molehill"), the new low-level GPU-accelerated APIs in Adobe Flash Player, to develop high-performance 2D games. Thibault Imbert, product manager for the Adobe Flash runtimes, will explore these new APIs and their usage inside game frameworks and engines. Stage 3D is going to change the web for 2D and 3D gaming, and this session will show how to make the most of it.

With the democratization of publishing and design that the Adobe product line has enabled, many find themselves creating content without having a formal design background. In this session, you'll learn the top ten practical tips for achieving consistently beautiful typography. We'll cover topics such as choosing and combining typefaces, the anatomy of type, understanding leading and how it relates to type size and column width, the proper use of white space and break characters, using special glyphs like em and en dashes, quotation marks versus inch marks, how to create visual hierarchy, and much more.

Learn how to tap into the many accessibility features the Adobe Flash Platform has to offer. Flash Player, Flash Professional, and the Adobe Flex SDK have integrated support for screen readers and other assistive technology to get you started, as well as keyboard and captioning support, allowing you to build applications that are easier for everyone to use.

Watch live demos of innovative applications built by your peers that take advantage of the unique capabilities of the new Android Sony Tablet devices. Hear the developers talk about their experience using Adobe AIR to develop their apps for a single-screen and a dual-screen Sony Tablet. Learn more about Sony Tablet features and how you can win up to US$130,000 for your breakthrough app by entering the Adobe AIR App Challenge, sponsored by Sony (www.airappchallenge.com).

See how the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite can help you create rich and engaging content and applications for tablet devices including Android, iPad, and BlackBerry PlayBook. Join Colin Fleming, Adobe digital publishing evangelist, to learn about Digital Publishing Suite Professional and Enterprise Edition features and to get an overview of the workflow that leads from Adobe InDesign to your own custom application. This session is great for designers who are new to digital publishing and want to get a better understanding of how it works, as well as the benefits.

Join Tom Nguyen and Thibault Imbert, product managers for the Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR runtimes, for a deep dive into all the new features introduced in Flash Player 11 and AIR 3. The web is going to change, and this session will show you how to b

Learn expert tips and techniques to get the most out of Adobe Illustrator. Reduce the time you spend on mundane tasks and gain more time to focus on the activities that matter: the creative ones. Brenda Sutherland, Illustrator product manager, will show you how to work faster, smarter, and much more smoothly. Once you've tricked out Illustrator and made it the custom vehicle you've always wanted, you'll experience life in the fast lane by shaving valuable time off tasks you perform every day.

Discover how to break free from your desktop and create anywhere. Creative professionals are working in new ways with their Adobe desktop products by starting with mobile applications, and then bringing their work into the powerhouse products they already love like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and more. Come see for yourself the advantages of going mobile.

Kevin Lynch shares how the Creative Community member of the Adobe Creative Cloud can support collaboration with other creatives around the world and inspiration in your own work.

Kevin Lynch describes Creative Services: hosted services in the cloud that can help in the production and delivery of your creative media.

Kevin Lynch, Adobe CTO, introduces the major transformations taking place at Adobe, including Adobe's Creative Cloud strategy, and how they will enable the next generation of creativity.

See what's new with 3D in Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended. Learn techniques for using features such as new Adobe Repoussé technology, enhanced 3D realism, a rich library of materials, painting in 3D, and so much more. After this session, newcomers to 3D in Photoshop will be well equipped to quickly and easily add 3D to their repertoires, and experts will benefit from must-have techniques for speeding up their workflows and making amazing designs.

Join Adobe engineers Sebastian Marketsmueller and Grayson Lang for a deep dive into Stage 3D (aka Molehill). Marketsmueller and Lang will cover how to get started with GPU acceleration in Adobe Flash Player and what can be done with it, from a simple triangle to a complete 3D framework.

See live demos exploring the unique features in the new Sony Tablets and demonstrating how to develop your Adobe AIR app to display on both single- and dual-screen devices. Find out about exciting opportunities on Sony’s Android tablets, including the Ado

Come learn about the new Adobe SocialAnalytics product, how it works, and how it can be used to optimize your company's brand and digital content. SocialAnalytics is part of the Adobe Online Marketing Suite and is geared for enterprise application.

You thought the Super Bowl was the place to view the best commercials of the year. Wait until you see the Adobe MAX keynote commercials. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll be amazed.

Ben Forta hosts, "Technology Street" and talks to puppets HTML and Flash about how they are getting along.

Adobe MAX 2010 attendees share their first impressions about Adobe Acrobat X.

Ben Forta, Adobe's Director of Evangelism interviews Paul Gubbay, VP Design and Web Engineering at Adobe and John Resig, father and lead developer of the JQuery JavaScript library as they discuss Adobe and its relationship to HTML5, and Adobe's work supporting JQuery.

User expectations and experiences are evolving rapidly, and Adobe has long taken the lead in creating the tools and services to design for the future. Join us to be inspired (and, yes, entertained) as we show you the future of building interactive and engaging experiences in ways you've yet to imagine.

A crack team including an experience researcher (Duane Nickull), a designer (Paul Trani), and a developer (Ming-En Cho) work to improve both desktop and mobile applications for Adobe’s Customer Service representatives. Lee Brimelow is the host.

Brett Error, VP of Omniture's Business Unit, presents a lightning round about optimizing mobile applications.

Four contestants compete to create the best shopping application, using the mystery ingredient: Flex. One team (Deepa Subramaniam & Narciso Jaramillo) builds a mobile application and the other team (Doug Winnie & Adam Cath) builds a browser-based application. Serge Jespers is the host.

Special guests Kevin Lynch, CTO, Adobe, and Rishi Chandra, Google TV Sr. Product Manager, discuss Google TV and support for Flash.

Two shopping network hosts (Desiree Motamedi & Heidi Williams) invite Danielle Deibler to promote a new applications store for developers called Adobe InMarket.

Kevin Lynch, CTO, Adobe, discusses the video revolution across screens, including phones, tablets and TVs. Kevin describes browsing with Flash on TV, AIR applications on TV, and multiscreen video production. Guest is Marc Goldberg CTO of Epix.

We are in the midst of a revolution across a variety of screens, new input methods, new formats, new distribution models and you are at the forefront of this.

Kevin Lynch, CTO, Adobe, discusses how multiscreen is transforming the experience for enterprise customer-facing applications as well as internal applications. Guest appearances by David Nuescheler, Day CTO and Mike Lazaridis, RIM CEO.

Kevin Lynch, CTO, Adobe, talks about what multiscreen means for tooling at Adobe. He demonstrates Photoshop Express’ Content Aware Fill and a color mixing palette on tablets.

Kevin Lynch, CTO, Adobe, discusses how Adobe tools work with HTML to help make websites work well across all form factors.

Kevin Lynch, CTO, Adobe, talks about the major transformation occurring in the publishing industry as they move their brands to a digital experience. Guests include Martha Stewart from Martha Stewart Living and Joe Simon from Conde Nast.

Kevin Lynch, CTO, Adobe, talks about the migration of games to multiscreen and how Adobe is helping to enable this innovation within Flash Player.

At the Adobe MAX conference, thousands of designers, developers and business leaders converge to discover the next wave of opportunities fueled by the explosion of rich content and applications across multiple screens, the merging of digital content and commerce, and workflows that bring design and development together.

Adobe's Director of Evangelism Ben Forta has spent countless hours preparing keynotes and sessions for Adobe MAX 2009. In this interview, Ben takes a break from planning to provide the inside scoop on this year's premier community event.

Ted Patrick has spent endless hours planning more than 200 sessions for Adobe MAX 2008. In this interview, Ted provides the inside scoop on this year's premier community event.

For the Pepsi Max It campaign, Proximity BBDO created a dynamic online gaming experience that let players control six real-life claw machines connected to the Internet. The game was created using Adobe Flex 3, AIR, Bridge CS4, Dreamweaver CS4, Flash CS4 Professional, Photoshop CS4 Extended, and Adobe Premiere Pro CS4.

Mark Hamill hosts the 2009 Adobe MAX Awards. The Adobe Max Awards are a global awards ceremony that recognizes the best uses of Adobe software for creating engaging experiences.

At MAX 2009, Kevin Lynch demos new features in Adobe AIR 2, including support for mass storage devices and native application processes.

On the scene at Adobe MAX 2009, Edge Managing Editor Julie Campagna delivers a snapshot of this year's event, including announcements, technology previews, and commentary from attendees.

Duane covers Adobe MAX 2008, interviewing Steve Jones (Capgemini) and Bola Rotibi (Macehiter Ward-Dutton). Code tutorial for Flash Builder 4 web services using the new Flex 4 components!

Duane starts the first of a two part series covering Adobe MAX and interviewing Redmonk founder and industry superstar James Governor. Code and Tunes includes using AMF to connect to a database from Flex.

Joel Geraci interviews Doug Winnie and Ted Patrick on Adobe MAX

MAX 2008 is an event unlike any other. Its unique combination of education, interaction, and genuine fun continues to attract a larger, more exciting audience every year.

Join Paul Betlem and Pritham Shetty, as you'll hear about Adobe's product roadmap for video, the Adobe multiscreen strategy, and ways to deliver better video experiences with new tools, clients, and servers.

Evangelists Duane and Piotr discuss the upcoming Adobe MAX event In Milan (D29 2008) from a Beer garden in Berlin.