Adobe launches Director 11

Early this AM, before much of the MU team had their morning coffee, Adobe decided to up and surprise us all with a major upgrade to Director, appropriately known as Director 11. It’ll set you back $300 for an upgrade, or a grand if you need to pay the full price. (That’s $1,000, kids.)

As Macworld’s Peter Cohen writes:

Director 11 lets content providers produce multimedia with support for more than 40 different video, audio and image file formats. Director 11 gains support for Adobe Flash CS3 Professional. It also supports Unicode, features an enhanced text rendering engine and refined user interface.

Director 11 now supports Lingo — Adobe’s native scripting language for Director — as well as JavaScript, the broadly used Internet standard. An enhanced script browser breaks out code snippets using drag and drop techniques.

Also, if you’re thinking about upgrading, you may want to check your hardware specs. You’ll need a multicore Intel Mac with a half gig of RAM and half a gig of storage.