Re: FLASH: Flash as alternative to Director

[Michael Penne]

Yup. Works great as long as all your content is importable to flash (ie

no QT/AVI video unless it can be converted to still frame animation and

still play well). 


Some caveats:

1) use High quality graphics, flash doesn't scale graphics as well as

some, and low quality graphics suffer much more. 2) Use several linked

swfs if your fla's sizes will get over 50-100mb, we've had trouble with

very large files on both MacOS and NT. 


We've done a randomized quiz in flash (~130 different questions,

scoring, randomized load order and grouping) on one educational CD

(along with Director content that was typically difficult to get fonts

to display right and linked media to stay linked) and a large (several

hundred slide) show covering eco-tourism, which is now wending its way

around South America, without player problems nor font problems (it was

originally in PPT;-). 


But check to be sure you don't need Director specific features first;

it is nice to avoid all the Director specific problems;-)...


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liamnewhaven-design [dot] net

 wrote:

> Hi folks,

> 

> I'm sure this question has been asked before so apologies for the

> repitition.

> I have a multimedia CD-ROM  project  on the horizon that I'm

> considering

> authoring in Flash. 


O yeah, get Flash 4 Magic, it really is DA BOMB!


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Two new flash movies as of 1/5/00


New music video and new flash 3d file...


http://www.humboldt.edu/~mmp5/flash.html

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