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Subject: Re: FLASH: CD Rom production - Director is so bogus --how do youdefine the end of this thread?
From: Michael@BTW
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 22:54:16 +0100

Funny how both you and Peter respond to my previous post regarding other
RADEs that create cross platform projects, in which post I mentioned
Codewarrior, iShell, Livestage, and PowerPoint2k with a discussion solely on
mTropolis. You both also ignored my comment that Director is frequently
mentioned (here) to folks who simply want to do a presentation that includes
video or hi-res graphics for CD or other hi-bandwidth delivery. I don't
recall _ever_ saying (and I would dissuade anyone who did) that it would not
be best to have Director on the same OS for authoring complex applications
that require platform specific xtras, system calls, etc.

I was and still am talking about more simple presentations, for which there
obviously is a demand given the number of folks attempting to make CDs with
Flash. For such simple presentations, it pretty easy for a skilled producer
to create a presentation that plays just fine on both without needing
re-authoring, the harder part is creating a cross platform CD with the
proper disk format and names, which having two copies of Director helps very
little with.

JD's post has been the standard Macromedia party line on this subject for
years now (except for the helpful discussion of stub projectors), and I was
merely pointing out that this line no longer holds true for the simple mixed
media presentations that folks are trying to create in Flash. IMHO, the jump
from the price of Flash to two copies of Director for x-platform authoring
OF SUCH PROJECTS will likely prevent many either from creating a x-platform
presentation or from using Director to do so. How either case helps MACR I
have no idea.

> Will this thread ever die:)
>
> <minirant>
> I still say you have to be an avid Director user to understand how valuable
> a tool it is.Once you get the concept of OOP and behaviors Director will set
> you free:) I haven't found too much I have not been able to accomplish with
> Director. To compare Director to anything out there is not realistic.
>
> The only thing mTropolis ever had that was valuable were behaviors and pre
> Director 6.5 it had a step up on QTVR,but isn't that product no longer
> sold.....oh yeah Quark killed it:)
>
> The power behind Director is well worth the price on both platforms.
>
> </minirant>
>
> Please read JD's initial post he put it better than I ever can,but you get
> my point here.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
>

=====>
Michael Penney
Sharpener of the Cutting Edge
BigTimeWeb.Com



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