Re: FLASH: ZDNET's Comparison Flash v. LiveMotion

[Gregg Caines]

The bitmap issue is only really touched on, IMO... bitmaps make the

filesize so much bigger that the SWF is no longer useful for the task it is

intended for: web animation.  There are better products for non-web

based animation, so it makes me wonder what livemotion's purpose is.


I've tried livemotion, and without even a warning, it converts your work

to bitmaps the first time you try to use one of its 'effects'.  It can

certainly do effects that flash cannot do, but the filesize is not

web-worthy, so the point of the SWF is totally missed.


Now if you stay away from the effects, you can stick with vectors and

match the filesizes of flash, but there is no reason for a veteran

flash-user

to make the switch.  It seems that livemotion is just to bring adobe users

who have never used SWFs up to date, without having to learn something

new/better.


Don't even get me started on the lack of scripting...

:)


Gregg Caines




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Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 11:06 AM

Subject: Re: FLASH: ZDNET's Comparison Flash v. LiveMotion



> Gary DeJarnett wrote:

>

> > In case anyone's interested in another article comparing Flash and

> > LiveMotion, here's another one:

> >

> > http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2495481,00.html

> > <http://cgi.zdnet.com/slink?28610:1622836>

> >

> > I don't really agree with it because the author doesn't compare the size

of

> > the resulting files from each program.

>

> I dunno, Gary.  I thought the article was pretty fair.  He mentions the

> bitmap issue on

http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2495522,00.html

>

> The designer must have the discipline to stay away from the effects if

> file size is the ultimate issue.  (Or smash things down with the

> per-object compression.)

>

> How much bigger are your LiveMotion SWFs than comparable Flash SWFs?

> I'd love to see a range of comparisons, vectors to vectors.

>

> Cheers,

> Dan

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