RE: FLASH: OT: Flashkiller

[Branden Hall]

Good points, but the theory behind it is flawed.


Live motion does provide for some cool effects and does makes some things

easier to do, but in doing so it very often takes you into bitmap land, and

hence huge file sizes.  Livemotion was not made with the way the web is now

in mind, period. Flash was, again, period. Flash has a better way of

organizing the objects you use (the library, and no Adobe's isn't the same

if you are wondering), Flash includes the ability to look at the stats for

each SWF you make, and Flash has the bandwidth profiler which is by far one

of the most powerful and cool tools for making something "web ready" that I

have ever seen.


-= Branden J. Hall

-= Multimedia Developer/Instructor

-= Fig Leaf Software - "We've got you covered!"


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>"Kristin K. Rule" wrote:

>

>> <snip> Live Motion is a

>> perfectly good product made by a great company that will only help make

>> Flash more widespread.

>>

>> k

>

>That just might happen when they can articulate just where LiveMotion fits

>into the production process.

>


I think the two tools might complement each other very well. Right off the

bat, I love LM's ability to break apart text and have each letter

automatically be on its own layer.  Speeds up the production of a lot of

text FX.  Also like the ability to animate Photoshop layers (kind've like a

poor man's AfterEffects), and the ability to create a library of animations

which can be reused.  I can figure out how to do a lot of this with Flash,

but LM seems to make it easier.


The way I see this integrating into the production process is, use LM to

streamiline production of certain FX, export the swf, use LoadMovie or

Import to bring it into your Flash piece and control all the interactivity

with Flash.


I also think as a multimedia designer part of my job is to figure things

out.  I don't need Adobe to "articulate just where LiveMotion fits into the

production process"; I think it's up to me. As I already use a combination

of tools (Photoshop, Illustrator and Freehand, QuickTime, Flash), I expect

I'll be doing more or less the same in 5 years, only the tools will be

different.  A new tool is like a new toy in the sandbox.  If you like it,

use it; if you don't, don't.


I'm done with my soapbox now, someone else can have it, thenkew.



Hal Medrano

New Media Group

U S WEST Creative Services


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