MacroMind was an Apple Macintosh software company founded in Chicago in 1984 by Marc Canter, Jamie Fenton and Mark Stephen Pierce. The company's first product was SoundVision, a combined music and graphics editor. Before the release, the graphics editor was removed, and SoundVision became MusicWorks[1] and the animation creativiy tool VideoWorks (which later became Director). Along with other early programs, MusicWorks and VideoWorks were originally published and distributed by Hayden Software.[2]
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Industry | Software |
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Founded | 1984Chicago, Illinois, United States | in
Founders | Marc Canter Jamie Fenton Mark Stephen Pierce |
Fate | Merged with Paracomp |
Successors | MacroMind–Paracomp (1991) Macromedia (1992-2005) Adobe (2005-present) |
Headquarters | San Francisco, California , United States |
Products | See Products |
In 1988 the company moved to San Francisco, and in 1991 MacroMind merged with Paracomp to become MacroMind–Paracomp, then in 1992 merged with Authorware Inc., forming Macromedia.
Products
- MusicWorks (1984) - music composer
- VideoWorks (1985),[3] VideoWorks II (1987) and VideoWorks Interactive - multimedia animation software
- Art Grabber/Body Shop (1985) - clip art software
- Comic Works/Graphic Works - object based paint program
- VideoWorks accelerator - animation compiler for VideoWorks files
- MazeWars+[4] (1987) - multiplayer network game based on the classic Maze War
- Director (1987) - new name for VideoWorks II
- Director 2 (1988) - VideoWorks Interactive when released as a commercial product
- Director 2.2 (1989 - Introduction of Lingo (programming language), an extensible animation scripting language
- Director 3 (1989),[5] and introduction of XObjects
- Three-D (1990)[6][7] - 3D modeling and animation software
- MacroModel
- Renderworks (1990) - rendering software for Three-D files MacroMind at Google Books
- Fireworks (1990) - post-production software for Renderworks renderings
- Mouse Practice (1992) – a tutorial on how to use the mouse where the user controls a scuba diver
See also
- Marc Canter - CEO and co-founder of MacroMind
References
External links
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