Creaza MovieEditor - Open Test Bench for Flash Player 10.1

Welcome to the Creaza MovieEditor test bench. This is an open test bench to verify the performance and robustness of the new Flash Player 10.1, a cross-platform runtime for desktop and mobile devices.

Background

Steve Jobs has labelled Flash as old technology. Apple claims that Flash is an obsolete CPU hog, and that developers should consider reaching out to the open Web standards of the new HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript instead.

Adobe says Apple's technology complaints are a smokescreen. It’s all about control and vendor lock-in and not about technological issues. Adobe has taken measures to increase performance, and Flash will continue to innovate and expand the limits for what is possible on the web.

While Flash as a video player for the web may or may not be threatened by HTML 5, the launch of Flash Player 10.1 provides an opportunity to move the front to the next level.

It’s time for you to evaluate for yourself what can and can't be done using Flash.

The Test Application – Full Featured Online Video Editing

To make a proper test, we have given you the most demanding technology showcase on the web: real time multi-layer video editing.

Creaza MovieEditor is a full-featured timeline-based video editor, similar to traditional desktop-based video editing tools. There’s just one big difference: MovieEditor is web-based and uses Flash Player 10.1. Read "Behind the scenes" for technical details.

In the test application, Audio Recordings, Upload, Save and Export functionality are disabled. Otherwise the application is fully functional.

For more information about Creaza MovieEditor, see the Features page.

We have included MP4-clips so that video decoding should be hardware accelerated on modern PCs with updated graphic card drivers. For more information about the technical solution, see the Behind The Scenes page. 

Your Verdict

Only consumers can truly evaluate where Flash 10.1 provides unique rich web-experiences. After performance and crash testing the application, please complete and submit the short questionnaire and submit your comments on the page.

Test MovieEditor.

The results of the questionnaire will be made available.

Looking forward to your verdict!

Some links

Steve Jobs' thoughts on Flash
Adobe's reply
Flash co-creator Jonathan Gay responds to Steve Jobs
Lee Brimlow, Apple Slaps Developers In The Face
Jesse Warden, Steve Jobs on Flash: Correcting the Lies
Scott Gilbertson (Webmonkey), Who needs Flash?
Jens C Brynildsen (Flash Magazine), Everyone to their bases - Flash is under attack