Flex app featured in PCWorld

The Adobe Flex app built for arq3 by funciton communications was featured in PCWorld Perú last month. arq3 is an architectural 3D studio (a really good one i may add).

They approached us with the following mission: “Develop an online app that will heavily decrease the time between client decisions and image/video renders”. They also asked us for the ability to upload changes automatically from their internal file server.

We used python and inotify to automatically upload new images and videos, create new users based on a local xml file and manage image/video versions.

With the app you have the ability to paint, write, erase, draw, etc. over the image/video. If it’s a video you can seek into an specific frame using a control bar.

All comments appear on tabs so other client users may reply to an specific comment, they can even upload files! When all the client users are happy they can commit the changes and the arq3 ppl receive it as a task.

arq3 also mentions that this solution reduced by 60% the time spent in meetings with clients now that everything is done online.

We liked the idea so much that we built an air version of the app that not only allows images and videos but also html files. Great for prototyping phases!

Here are some pics of the app:

- Initial layout controls

- Upload file

- Uploading file

- Comment created over an image

- Quit without saving?