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MacroMind
Industry	Software
Founded	1984; 40 years ago 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.

Products

MusicWorks (1984) - music composer
VideoWorks (1985),^[3] VideoWorks II (1987) and VideoWorks Interactive - multimedia animation software
Art Grabber/Body Shop (1985) - clip art software
Comic Works/Graphic Works - object based paint program
VideoWorks accelerator - animation compiler for VideoWorks files
MazeWars+^[4] (1987) - multiplayer network game based on the classic Maze War
Director (1987) - new name for VideoWorks II
Director 2 (1988) - VideoWorks Interactive when released as a commercial product
Director 2.2 (1989 - Introduction of Lingo (programming language), an extensible animation scripting language
Director 3 (1989),^[5] and introduction of XObjects
Three-D (1990)^[6]^[7] - 3D modeling and animation software
MacroModel
Renderworks (1990) - rendering software for Three-D files MacroMind at Google Books
Fireworks (1990) - post-production software for Renderworks renderings
Mouse Practice (1992) – a tutorial on how to use the mouse where the user controls a scuba diver