Hollywood Designer 6.0 Released: Now a 'Full-Blown Multimedia Authoring System'

After nearly 20 years, Hollywood Designer 6.0 is "very stable and mature", write its developers — envisioning both hobbyist and professional users (with its support for modern graphics-editing features like filter effects and vector graphics) in its massive new evolution.

Long-time Slashdot reader Mike Bouma explains: Airsoft Softwair has released Hollywood Designer 6.0, "a full-blown multimedia authoring system that runs on top of Hollywood and can be used to create all sorts of multimedia-based applications, for example presentations, slide shows, games, and applications. Thanks to Hollywood, all multimedia applications created using Hollywood Designer can be exported as stand-alone executables for the following systems: AmigaOS3, AmigaOS4, WarpOS, MorphOS, AROS, Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS."

The current version of Hollywood is v9.1 with various updated add-ons. To see earlier versions of Hollywood 9.0 & Designer 5.0 in action have a look at Kas1e's short demonstration on AmigaOS4 / AmigaOne X5000.

20 years...

[devslash0]

Took you a while.

Can it be used to create movies?

[Dirk Becher]

The article doesn't detail on that.

Re:Can it be used to create movies?

[Catvid-22]

First time I've heard of this software as well. Apparently, it's the GUI for a graphics-oriented programming language. [wikipedia.org] So it's kind of like a Visual Studio plus the actual build environment for producing games, applications, and multimedia binaries for different platforms. Now the last one sounds like a weird category, but just think of it as a game you can run but not play.

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[drinkypoo]

They want you to pay a hundred bucks for it, too. The only thing I can see worth paying money for is "scala emulation" and that only if it's literal and you can load and play a scala file. And THAT only if you used to have scala and now you don't, but need something you made in it and never exported a video.

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[Catvid-22]

Yes, it's somewhat expensive for what seems like hobbyist software, able to do a lot of things but not particularly well.

I'd thought the same...

[OneOfMany07]

Found these screenshot examples of both the environment, and stuff you can make...

https://www.hollywood-mal.com/... [hollywood-mal.com]

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[ArchieBunker]

Yay I guess? Welcome to 1990.

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[ArhcAngel]

I have programmed in MS Visual Basic [wikipedia.org], HP VEE [wikipedia.org], and LabVIEW [wikipedia.org]. Welcome to the new thing...same as the old thing!

No 16-bit Windows?

[HatofPig]

What good is it, then?

MIssing SSL for company site

[Deal In One]

http://www.airsoftsoftwair.com... [airsoftsoftwair.com] does not have an SSL cert. Am somewhat concerned about a software developer who is not security conscious.

On another note, wonder how long before people start screaming about it's "The Hardest Working Men in Code Business" tagline/motto not being gender inclusive.

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[kackle]

http://www.airsoftsoftwair.com... [airsoftsoftwair.com] does not have an SSL cert. Am somewhat concerned about a software developer who is not security conscious.

The main site is encrypted, if you click into it--importantly, the download section. I'm not a fan of "encrypt everything"; I think people overlook the extra energy required to encrypt website transactions.

On another note, wonder how long before people start screaming about it's "The Hardest Working Men in Code Business" tagline/motto not being gender inclusive.

I see no bullying here, let them scream.

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[bill_mcgonigle]

> people overlook the extra energy required to encrypt website transactions.

Be careful with assumptions. Many webservers/ssl packages arrange for your request to drop into hand-tuned assembly for ssl. Because it's faster, but that almost always corresponds to energy, which is cost.

If you just gzip plaintext you might go through an -O2 code path. HTTP2 pipelining further reduces cost. As do AES-NI or CHACHA fallbacks.

Then add in the energy required by massive surveillance states that garner outsized powe

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[kackle]

An excellent point. Surveillance notwithstanding, as an embedded guy, it seems clear to me though that "doing extra math" on the client side versus "not doing any math" will always cost more. Not to mention passing authentication certificates to/from distant servers.

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[moogaloonie]

If all of the developers identify as men it doesn't need to be inclusive.