Re: FLASH: Mark Hoffman/ midi use

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 05:56 PM 1/2/00 , you wrote:


>I'm curious about your decision to use a midi file instead of the internal 

>MP3 conversion in Flash on your Rick Friend 

>site.(http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/rickfrnd). Can you expound on the why's 

>and why not's of midi use as opposed to sound in Flash?

>

>I think the choice is an excellent one, and sounds great for the genre, 

>but are we just talking about triming file sizes here?



Hi Jeff,


Primarily it was a file size decision. However were that not a concern I 

would also have been hesitant about requiring the Flash4 plug-in. In many 

situations I wouldn't worry about it. But the site is targeted to people 

shopping for live music. They likely don't know Rick's music yet, and they 

may or may not have much incentive to load a plug-in or wait for a 300k 

file to load. I wanted their gratification to be as instantaneous as 

possible. Since the site is reminiscent of old movies and rinky-tink 

pianos, I felt the piano synth in most sound cards would be fine, so a real 

wave audio wasn't necessary. By the way, we're still ironing out glitches 

in the MIDI playback, so those of you on Macs may or may not hear the 

entire piano track. Thanks to Lewis Francis who took a look at the midi and 

found a lot of extraneous data that we're hoping to clean up soon.

Marc Hoffman


Poison Dart Frog Media: Specializing in Flash Animation and Digital Audio 

Production

Our latest Flash job is on display at <http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/rickfrnd>

See our Flash portfolio at <http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/sampler>

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