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| Industry | Software |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1984 in Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| 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 |
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 creativity tool VideoWorks (which later became Director). Along with other early programs, MusicWorks and VideoWorks were originally published and distributed by Hayden Software.[2]
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.
- ^ MacroMind history at the Wayback Machine (archived 2006-04-23) on Chris Jacques's introduction to multimedia
- ^ The New York Times, "PERIPHERALS; PORTABLE SCREEN FOR APPLE", By PETER H. LEWIS, Published: February 19, 1985