Friday, Kevin Lynch showed off Macromedia's next major release of the Flash player at the Macromedia Flash conference in Japan.


The few features that were shown where:

- saffron, a new type-rendering engine
- dramatic performance improvements (a calendar app went from 14fps to 125)
- realtime bitmap effects (blur, dropshadown, colour matrix)
- realtime video alpha channel

Colin Moock had a video up, but due to bandwidth has taken it down for now. Keep an eye out to see if it pops back up again.

via Colin Moock