Quicktime and Flash (wishlist)

[Jonathan Baldwin]

I've been messing about with the Sprite exporter for Director from Apple. 


Basically, for those who didn't know, Quicktime supports sprites - this 

was undocumented in version 2 but is now 'official' in version 3.


Using the Xtra from Apple's web site, I exported a director movie in both 

Sprite and 'traditional' QT video formats and, while the video came in at 

6Mb, the Sprite version came in at just 200k. 


Obviously, this offers some great opportunities for using Director. 

For example, I was using Director to produce a Quicktime screensaver. 

Using Sprites made a screensaver of a much more realistic size for 

downloading off the web.


Anyway, to my points:


1 It would be great if Flash had a Quicktime Sprite exporter option as 

well as the current video option.

2 As Quicktime 3 now supports vector formats, perhaps it would be an idea 

for Flash 3 to support this too.


I tried the Flash wishlist email address but it bounced, so anyone at MM 

who can pass this on, please do!



I saw a preview of Flash 3 the other day and it looks cool. Drop down 

menus, animated buttons and all sorts. Looks like the guys at MM take 

notice of what developers who use the tools want. If only other software 

houses could do the same!

Also Macromedia Fireworks (is that the name?) looks interesting. Of 

particular interest is the ability to divide an image into sections for 

use in a table. I find Photoshop a real pain in this respect.) If 

realistically priced as a companion to Pshop rather than a competitior, 

it shoudl be a success.

Any news on release dates?


Jonathan Baldwin, Design, Illustration, Web

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5 Young's Court, Ripon, North Yorkshire, UK, HG4 1DJ



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