Re: FLASH: FlashForward 2000 response?

[Charles Goran]

I totally agree. You completely summed up what I was going to say. Save for the

addition of the fact that I arrived 1 hour passed registration time and they

were out of "the $750.00 dollar valued video and work book package". So I got

nothing. Poor planning.

Charles Goran


Justin Everett-Church wrote:


> hi,

>

> while I'm happy that there was a flash conference, I was very disappointed

> with it overall.  7 exhibitors upstairs?? that was really sad.  there were

> plenty more tangential vendors that could have been there.  The first day's

> workshops were completely useless. From talking to others, they did seem to

> be useful to newcomers to Flash, but I thought from reading the site that it

> was for Flash developers. Advanced actionscripting suggested to me that they

> would skip the "intro actionscripting" and it would be focused on complex

> use of actionscripting, not 2 hours on how to make slider bars (1 hour of

> which was supposed to be devoted to FS commands).

>

> on the positive side, I liked the hands on workshop from Adobe on

> LiveMotion.  I liked the director/flash seminar and also Flash printing.

>

> The film festival was strange.  ummmm.... Sinbad?  that was just weird

>

> what it all boils down to... when asked by my boss how I liked the

> conference, I was REALLY embarrassed.  they spent $1000 for me to go and all

> I could tell him was that I know what some of the upcoming features of Flash

> 5 are going to be.  (pieces of information now available for free on this

> list)  I feel like I got swindled but my company paid the price.

>

> I apologize if this post annoys anyone.  I'm very happy if you got something

> out of it.  The more people supporting the use of Flash the better.  It will

> mean more jobs, and more industry acceptance. All of which is a wonderful

> wonderful thing

>

> Justin Everett-Church (spelled Chruch on my badge ;) )

>

> -----Original Message-----

>

From: ownerchinwag [dot] com [ownerchinwag [dot] com]On">mailto:ownerchinwag [dot] com]On Behalf Of Michael

> Dunn

> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 9:11 AM

> To: flasher

> Subject: FLASH: FlashForward 2000 response?

>

> Sorry, if this has been brought up already, but I just into work and have

> 930

> !!! emails to get through over the next few hours. I just got back from SF

> and

> the FlashForward conference. Anyone else go? Wanted to hear your reactions,

> etc.

> Here's mine: Intense. Lots of information, cool stuff to see, LOTS of

> people.

> Some stuff not quite up to par (the sound discussion was a fiasco) and the

> 3D

> session felt a bit like an infomercial for Swift 3D. And the Flash preview

> was a

> little disappointing - maybe if they'd revealed something about their plans

> for

> scripting!!! But Josh Ulm's actionscripting insights made so much sense,

> when i

> left it was like AHA!!!! Now I get it. And inspired me to get to work on my

> own

> tutorials (keep an eye out here, I'll post when one's ready). I came up with

> a

> very simple solution to using mc's in actionscripting to do ANYTHING!! Very

> simple approach. Very easy for non-programmers to understand I think. Really

> excited. And the film festival was pretty great (though the winners weren't

> to

> surprising). All in all it would have been nice if there'd been more time

> devoted to flash and less to Quicktime, LiveMotion, Real, etc. But I guess

> that's politics.

>

> P.S. The response to Live Motion's features seemed a lot more

> audience-approved

> than those planned for the next version on flash in my opinion. I was more

> impressed, anyway.

>

> Anyone else have comments?

>

> --

> Michael Dunn

>

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