FITC Keynote Highlights (Sunday)

**Flash Player 9 statistics. Official Flash Player penetration for mature markets is at 83.4%, nine months after it's release.

**Mike Downey showed Papervision3d samples to illustrate Flash 9 processing speed improvements.

**Key new features of Flash CS3: Photoshop and Illustrator documents import, timeline-based to actionscript-based animation conversion.

**Flash/Flex integration kit: an extensions for Flash CS3 that allows timeline-based animations to be exported as SWCs from Flash, and then imported into Flex, and controlled from within a Flex application.

**Kevin Towes demoed the new Flash Media Encoder, and a handful of Flash and Flex applications that take advantage of the new features of Flash Media Server 2.

**The keynote ended with a quick walk-through of a few Apollo applications, including the new Adobe Media Player, to be released with Apollo.