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

[Phillip M. Torrone]

so what exactly would ya'll want to see as far a documentation? i've done

presentations about flash and quicktime authoring. would a 20 page pdf

work? with examples?


the tools i like to use are a combination of flash, livestage, and finalcut

pro, media cleaner pro, sorenson...


as far as cool stuff...here's an example, we actually use it for tons of

projects....this was created in flash 4 and quicktime pro.


http://www.braincraft.com/nasa/bcnasa.mov


it's 30 megs, so download it...don't view in your browser, it's intended

for local or cd-rom viewing.


cheers,


Phillip M. Torrone

Director of New Media

B r a i n c r a f t

627 Broadway Suite 504

New York, NY 10012

v: 212.539.1680 ext. 201

f: 212.539.1741

m: 201.921.9306

http://www.braincraft.com



At 12:16 PM 5/2/00 -0700, you wrote:

>The first time I saw the Flash layer in QuickTime I thought it was pretty

>cool... but that was a long time ago and to date, I've seen no significant

>documentation, support, or advancement for this feature.  For example, you

>can only output Flash 3 files into QuickTime!

>

>In my opinion, other tools will be used instead of Flash because there's no

>action from Macromedia.  On the one hand, if we all were using it more maybe

>MM would develop more support--on the other hand, we can't use it until

>there are more features.

>

>I remember at UCON99 some folks from the QuickTime team saying that Flash

>will (someday) be given access to some of the controls within a QuickTime 4

>file (via action scripting).  Well, I've either missed it or something

>because I've seen nothing.

>

>Sorry to complain, but to turn this into a positive email let me ask this:

>Has anyone been doing cool stuff with Flash on QuickTime?

>Does anyone have stories to share about the use of LiveStage from

>http://www.totallyhip.com ?

>

>Other tools... like "Electrifier"?

>

>Please show and tell.

>

>Phillip

>

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