Re: FLASH: Interactive cd rom help needed, please...

[Marc Hoffman]

At 08:35 PM 12/31/98 -0700, you wrote:

>1) If we are not going to use our creation on the web, do we still need to

>worry about these issues?  Some of our animations are very complex and cpu

>intensive;  sometimes 30-40 animated objects all moving at once and we have

>had some problems with maintaining fps.  Any suggestions?

>2) If we put the finished product into a shockwave player to run

>independently on the cd rom, are there any special considerations that we

>need to be aware of?

>3) Can we utilize audio (voice and music) from a source other than flash and

>easily get flash to interact with the third party software?  Or do we need

>to use a program like director, etc. to bring this all together and

>accomplish this?

>Thanks again,

>((-;  Kathy


Hi Kathy:


Flash's ability to playback complex animation is definitely limited by the

user's processor power.  I've seen dramatic differences in playback of

fairly simple animation on a PII-300 versus a P166.  processor speed, video

RAM, CPU RAM, all factor into this. Adding lots of audio will tie up more

processor power, too.


I would say that Director is the tool of choice for what you seem to want

to do.  If using Director 6.5 you can embed Flash2.  With Director 7 you

can utilize Flash 3.  In addition to Flash, you can use lots of bitmaps and

you can stream high-quality sound with few or no glitches.



Marc Hoffman

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