RE: FLASH: OT: Flashkiller

[John Olson]

Since everybody is throwing in their 2 cents.. here's mine.


I do a lot of animation in Flash and personally, I think the Flash 

timeline sucks.  I have used After Effects for years and I enjoy 

using it.   When Livemotion is released, I will add it to my list of 

tools and I can see myself using it for 9/10ths of my work.  But 

thats me.  I dont do a lot of complicated scripting and 

interactivity.. I simply dont need to.


I think as a multimedia designer, you should have all the tools in 

your toolbox...or atleast be familar with them.  Use each tool for 

its strength.  LiveMotion ( in its current form) IS a Flash Killer 

when using it for animation...  but if scripting and interactivity is 

your game, then Flash is your choice.


-Johnny O.






>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.


	John J. Olson


	Multimedia Specialist

	Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center

	http://matec.org


	phone	(480) 517-8664

	fax	(480) 517-8669


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