RE: FLASH: OT: Great LiveMotion Article

[Jason Bouwmeester]

I think that the biggest adjustment people are going to have problems with

getting used to is the fact that Flash has layers in the timeline and LM

doesn't. It seems pretty awkward getting proper layout using Object layers

and arranging these objects on the Composition via bring to front, send

back, etc. commands. LM does have some good stuff though as Brandon pointed

out earlier...


Jason


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From: Ralf Berger [

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Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 11:49 AM

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Subject: Re: FLASH: OT: Great LiveMotion Article



Branden,


I saw your analysis of LiveMotion from the Flashers list. It's very helpful.

I forwarded it to my engineering team.


The public beta version of the software is actually about a month behind

where we are now. Many of your concerns about bandwidth profiling, when is

something a bitmap, etc. have or are being addressed.


Your concern about symbols is an interesting issue. LM does not have

symbols. Aliases are not a replacement for symbols but merely an editing

convenience. LM actually generates symbols automatically. This means that if

you have several objects that are the same they will generate one Flash

symbol. This is particularly advantageous when dealing with images or vector

objects with effects that Flash must represent as a bitmap.


I wonder if you had a chance to play with:


- animated styles: save the animation for an object as a style and then

apply it to other objects

- edit original: use Photoshop to edit your images objects within the LM

composition and Illustrator to edit your vector art

- convert text to characters: I don't remember what we called it in the beta

version but you can break a text object into individual character objects

and then animate them


Have you looked at the tutorials on the web site?


http://www.adobe.com/products/tips/livemotion.html


I wasn't sure if anyone had noticed these.


Cheers

- Ralf


Ralf Berger

Adobe Systems



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