RE: FLASH: Macromedia FAQ on Flash vs LiveMotion

[Branden Hall]

While I agree that the paper is one sided it makes some very valid points...

The reason Flash is such a big deal right now is not because it is the best

animation tool... there are *many* better tools out there... Flash is big

because of its technology.. the fact that it can make *incredibly* tiny

files that are extremely interactive in nature.  Live motion just stabs at

the animation part, and in doing so sacrafices the reasons why Flash is so

big... scripting and small file sizes.  Sure, LM is more flexible, but its

files are bigger, and half the time the effects are bitmap based and hence

breaking out of the small-file-size paradigm.  The theory behind Live Motion

is sound... make a great SWF based animation tool, but the actual product is

just poorly implemented.  You simply can not come into a market with a new

product that does not at least match all of the features of the current

leader.


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-= Multimedia Developer/Instructor

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Subject: Re: FLASH: Macromedia FAQ on Flash vs LiveMotion



Seemed pretty 1-sided to me. No mention of the

advantages of LMs parametric timeline,

non-destructive editing, and precise (bezier

based) drawing tools. The real advantages as I

see it in LM are in animation, though still not

as cool as Mohos vector bones, being able to set

keyframes tracks for different members of an

object group in the main timeline is a huge

advantage for rapidly creating complex

animations.


Flash obvioulsy rules in programming, but I think

(from my brief observations of the beta) that LM

will rule in (non-programetric) animation.


Personally, I think the whole 'flashkiller' hype

and resulting backlash represented by this 'faq'

are pretty stupid. LM complements where Flash is

weak and vice versa, I think very few flash sales

will be lost to LM and vice versa, rather the

community of people producing swfs will grow,

growing sales for both Adobe and Macromedia (and

given M$' tepid support for swf, having Adobe

also in the swf arena will likely be beneficial

in getting Redmond to play nice;-)...


--- Jason Bouwmeester <

jasonintervisual [dot] com

>

wrote:

> Hey everyone,

>

> Macromedia Europe has come out with an FAQ

> describing the differences

> between Flash 4 and Adobe's new LiveMotion... a

> little FYI... is an

> interesting short read, and after having looked

> at the Beta and the

> tutorials, this FAQ is pretty bang on.

>

> http://www.quotenow.co.uk/faq.pdf

>



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