RE: FLASH: Flash making QuickTime--why so little support and development?

[Damian Morton]

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

> Rieger

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on 5/2/00 8:25 PM, Damian Morton at mortondennisinter [dot] com wrote:

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> > If only flash had multiple heirarchical timelines like flash

> does.... I might

> > even be tempted to work in QT only. As it is, QT only has one

> timeline, and

> > sprite layers, which dont benefit from the varieties of

> compression that the

> > rest of QT does.

>

> Actually QuickTime does support multiple timelines now using Movie in a

> Movie - the easiest way to use this is through LiveStage Pro 2.1 (now in

> Beta). Also, you can apply various codecs to various sprite

> samples - not to

> mention the ability to over ride sprites with video or flash tracks. For

> instance you can apply an 'Animation' codec to one sample, and

> 'Sorenson' to

> another that is being overridden by a video track.




My last reading of the QT docs seemed to indicate that sprites arent first

class objects. That is, there is a serious performance issue in using them

as video sprites. This movie in a movie stuff is new to me also. I better go

back and read the QT docs again :)





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