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ADOBE DRIVE] [What's New in Version 3] Hello--my name is Terry White, Worldwide Design Evangelist for Adobe systems. Today, I have the great pleasure of talking about Adobe Drive 3. Adobe Drive is our digital asset management connection from the Creative Suite products to, not only Adobe's digital asset managed software or servers, but also those great third party solutions that are out there as well. Customers are always asking us for ways of keeping track of their assets, their files--making sure they're sending the most recent versions to their printers and publishers and other developers, to make sure that they're not potentially sending something that's outdated. Of course, with versioning and digital asset management systems in place in many large companies today, we want you to be able to use those products that you already know and love with your Creative Suite products that you also already know and love. So with that, let's take a look at Adobe Drive 3. I have Adobe Drive launched here and I'm already connected to one server. You can connect to multiple servers and, of course, they're all secure with your user name and passwords-- the same user names and passwords that you're using today. So now let's head over to Adobe Bridge. Adobe Drive is integrated into the Creative Suite products. So Bridge--of course, being the bridge between the Creative Suite products-- we have Adobe Drive integration here as well. One of the new things is that, when I click on an asset here that's being managed from an Adobe Drive server or a digital asset manager I have the ability now to create custom properties and see those properties right here in Bridge. And, of course, I can also see the latest version information-- whether or not this file is up to date, and who may have used it last or checked it out currently. So--again, this is all taking place directly in Bridge. The user doesn't have to learn anything extra, they don't have to know anything different-- they just go ahead and connect using Bridge as they always would to their local file system. Now with that, let's walk through a process where I'm going to use InDesign and Photoshop as I always would, but using Adobe Drive to connect to the assets that I want to use in that project. So let's go ahead and go back a little here and if I go all the way back, you can see the Adobe Drive icon for the server that I'm connected to. So we're going to go ahead and double click on it. Again, it's showing me only the folders that I have access to, based on my user name and password. I have an InDesign Templates folder here and I can go ahead and double click on this InDesign Template file. Once I double click on it, that will of course launch that file on Adobe InDesign CS5.5. [LOCAL] [NEW DAY RISING] Okay--and once I have the file open we have a little Adobe Drive icon here to let me know that it's been saved or not saved, or what version it is or who's checked it out. So since I opened up a template file, it actually opened that file--untitled-- because that's the way templates work. You're not ever saving over the original template, unless you choose to open that template directly. So I have the untitled--or unsaved--InDesign file and I can go ahead and just treat it like I would any other InDesign file--I can do whatever I want. But of course, I want to start off by saving my version of it. So we'll just do a save and we'll go to the Adobe Drive server, which shows up in the operating system as a legitimate place to save files. And we'll save this to the assets folder for now. We'll just call this Adobe Drive 3. Once I save this--and, again, because I'm saving it to an Adobe Drive or digital asset managed server, it will not only save the file, but it will also prompt me to put in my version comment because it's automatically handling versioning in the background. So I'm going to say that this is the Initial Concept and click OK, and the file is saved. Notice that the icon changed to a check mark to let me know that it's been checked in, it's the current version, it's up to date. Now what I'd like to do is--and again, the minute I make any changes to it-- right now, anyone can grab it that has access to the server, but the first person that grabs it, of course, is automatically checking it out. So if I go ahead and just grab something and just move it by one pixel on screen-- at that point, technically, I have now checked it out and it says that it's checked out by me. If someone else had grabbed it first and checked it out, then I would know who checked it out because it would say their name. Now I'd like to work on this, so I'm to go ahead and grab a file from Bridge that I want to put into this layout. I have a frame selected. We'll go back to Bridge and we'll go out of this folder, back to our assets folder where I have, not only the InDesign files that I've been working on, but also that cover model's photo. I'll go ahead and do a Place from the Bridge menu and, of course, Bridge knows about InDesign so we can Place directly in InDesign from Bridge and that will take us back to InDesign and Place the file. Now that the file's been Placed--again, I'm working on the InDesign file, I can check it back in, I can save it, I can do whatever I want as far as versioning is concerned. But let's go ahead and do a File, a Check In-- and, again, all of these commands are showing up directly inside my Creative Suite products because Adobe Drive is installed. So once I do a Check In it's going to ask me for my Version 2 comment, at this point. And I can say, Added model's photo. So now it will Check In that file and, again, it's putting it back up and making it fair game for anyone that wants to use it or-- if I continue working on it, then it's going to immediately check it back out for me. Now of course this is InDesign working with Photoshop. So if I want to work on that Photoshop file, I can hold down my Option key on the MAC or my Alt key on PC, double click, and it will open the file up in Photoshop. Of course, I can make any changes I want to this--so, for example, we'll grab our Paintbrush, we'll switch to black paint, we'll decrease the brush size just ever so slightly, and we'll also decrease the opacity of the tool, and we'll just darken that mustache up just a little bit more. There we go! Okay--so now that we've given his mustache just little bit more distinction there, we'll go ahead and check it in. Again, I knew where that command would be because it's Adobe Drive. So we'll make this a Version 2 comment: Darkened Facial Hair Click OK, close the file, switch back to InDesign, and InDesign will automatically update, as it always does but this time it's updating from the newer version. Now we have the darker mustache. We're using InDesign, we're using Photoshop, we're using Bridge as we always did. But the difference here is it's handling this, all via versioning, on a digital asset management server using Adobe Drive. And if you ever want to check out the versions that you've done so far, you can go right back down to that same menu and you even have a Versions command here. This will show you the versions that you started with, any previous versions or current versions, and the ability to say, "You know what? I kind of--I don't know what I was thinking today, I want to go back to that version I worked on two days ago." You can select a particular version, either open that version or promote it to the current version. With that, there's one more thing. Up until now, we've been doing this all inside of our Creative Suite products. But what if we wanted to share an asset with someone who wasn't a Creative Suite user? Heaven forbid. Well, we have the ability to access all of this content via the Web interface as well. So if I switch over to my Web browser, I actually am logged in to the same asset management server, and I have access to the same folders, the same templates, the same assets, the same versions, the same files, and I can pick anything that I have access to and download it right to my computer. So if I need to give access quickly to a file, I can set up that user. That user could then just download the file and start using it without having to be on my local network and basically be anywhere in the world that my server is accessible to over the Internet. So remember: Adobe Drive, new in Version 3-- the panel for Bridge, the ability to do your custom properties; also the ability to connect to ADEP DAM services, CQ DAM servers, as well as a CMIS connector. So all of this, coming with the Adobe Drive 3 to a machine near you. Thanks again--my name's Terry White, and thanks for your time. [Adobe] [Copyright@2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated All right reserved] [ADOBE TV tv.adobe.com]
