Re: OT: CDROM Authoring

[Marc Hoffman]

At 01:17 PM 7/31/98 -0400, you wrote:

>OK, here's one...if i might broaden things:

>How about the triple platform question (Mac, UNIX, PC)?

>I assume Opera flies here (it has all three?)?

>How about others?

>

>> > Sean Robertson

>> 


Well, Director has the major disadvantage that it will create a projector

only for the platform (PC or Mac) that the software was purchased for.  The

work-arounds are: 1) buy the Mac version as well as the PC version, and own

both machines as well (!) or 2)create your Director movie on a PC, make the

PC projector on your own machine, then find someone with Mac Director --

they can read your Director movie on their Mac and create the Mac projector

for you.  The projector need only be a "stub;" that is, a tiny projector

that points to a larger Director movie that's stored on the CD-rom.  As

with Flash, it usually makes sense to piggyback a number of movies rather

than have one huge movie. Theoretically, you could keep two stub movies on

hand -- one for Mac, one for PC.  They would each point to a movie name

(for example, "movie1.dir") and you could use that name as the first movie

for every project you create.  Come to think of it, anyone on this list

(with Director for Mac) want to do that?  We could make the stubs available

for everyone.


These comments are based on my experience with Director 6.



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  Marc Hoffman

  Poison Dart Frog Music

  Digital Audio Production Services

  & Interactive Multimedia Design


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