Re: FLASH: Tired of the patronizing

[daniel gray]

> Daniel Brown wrote:

> <snip>

> 

> > >

> > > Maybe the Adobe guys lurking here could shed some light on this. Does the

> > > product complement or supplement Flash and, in a production environment, what

> > > are the features that will make my life easie r and compell me to have a copy

> > > of

> > > the app?

> >

> > Err. the subject was more about SVG which is a file format, not a product.

> > Since this could branch into several discussions, I'd be happy to take

> > questions off-list about either LiveMotion or SVG.

> >

> 

> <snip>


Tom Green wrote:


> Nice dodge. Let's try this again, Dan.

> 

> I am sure that a lot of people on this list would appreciate a clear answer to the

> question posed above your reply. The FF2K demo was mighty impressive. Lots of ooohs

> and aaaahs but Adobe never did clearly articulate where it fits in. I have seen far

> too many of these demos where a product is presented as a "must have" and it winds

> up as a bookend.

> 

> A lot of your products are deep, indulgent, intuitive and dead on in a production

> environment but I just don't get it with this one.


Tom -


The *other* Dan here ... (from brown to green to gray ... tinkers to

evers to chance)


Flash format files are one of the things that LiveMotion produces (now).

 In the future, we can likely expect SVG (and who knows what else).  In

short, LM isn't tied to the Flash format.


I think it's safe to say that LiveMotion will bring scores of new users

to the Flash format, by virtue of its easy interface (and Adobe's

marketing clout).  Flash is safe at the high end, no doubt.   


A handful of LiveMotion's current strengths, IMHO:


* Styles - including filters and animation.  These can be a *huge* timesaver.

* Integration with Illustrator and Photoshop (drag n drop)

* Per-object compression

* Compositions (with rollovers) can be exported in either sliced

Javascript or Flash formats.

* The ease of applying certain effects to text.


FWIW, I've been working with this product since the very beginning. 

(I'm the only poor chump to have written an ImageStyler book.)


I think I've mentioned this on the Flasher list before ... I've started

a little focused LiveMotion list, if anyone's interested, feel free to

email me (off the list) and I'll hook you up.  


Cheers,

Dan

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