Re: FLASH: CD Rom production - Director is so bogus --how do youdefine the end of this thread?

[Michael@BTW]

Metrowerks is out of business? Mtropolis was bought and Quarked, had nothing

to do with the feasability of the technology. The analogy was to RADEs, not

to business proactices. Actually, Macromedia making dual platform Director

authoring eaiser would likely be beneficial, given that both QT and WiMP

have recently begun to be viable for creating simple, interactive video +

other media presentations. I'm sure MACR has reasons for continuing this

practice, In a modern shop with networked computers, its really not very

difficult to burn a projector on one platform and test it on another, nor

with the proper skill set is it that difficult design a project so it will

run on both platforms.


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Subject: Re: FLASH: CD Rom production - Director is so bogus --how do you

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> Wow... comparing Director to Mtropolis.  Well, first of all, version 3 of

> Director had a "player" for windows--gaffer, etc.  It sucked and all

> "players" for other platforms are inherently less useable because you

> develop on one platform, test on the other... then go back to the

> development platform to make changes.

>

> Secondly, you compare to a company that went out of business.  I'll be

glad

> to pay Macromedia their prices (arguable exorbitant--though not my belief)

> in order to have a product that lives for at least a few years.  My

> investment learning Director is way greater than all the upgrades and

> software purchases.  Again, if you want the "player" for the other

platform

> people make it available and Macromedia makes it available for the price

of

> Director.

>

> Phillip

>

> > ------------------------------

> >

> > Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 14:27:29 -0700

>

> From: "Michael@BTW" <mplistbigtimeweb [dot] com>

> > Subject: Re: FLASH: CD Rom production - Director is so bogus

> >

> > IMHO, a better analogy would be to compare Codewarrior to Director as

both

> > make standalone apps. You could also bring iShell and poor old Mtropolis

> > into the mix.

> >

> > As it stands its more like as if you could only make a .jpeg viewable on

> > MacOS with the MacOS version of PS, no?

> >

> > >

> > > no. i should have known people would misunderstand.

> > >

> > > Phoppy is exe. Director's output is exe. Both exe's are

> > > platform specific. That's what I'm saying.

> > >

> > > photoshop is a "core" program. but what director outputs is

> > > also a "core" program. i dunno. They're programs, they do

> > > stuff. One you buy, already able to do stuff. One you make

> > > yourself. But they're both programs, core or not or

> > > whatever.

> > >

> >

> > >

> > > like i said, there's 2 issues, business and technical, I was

> > > only concerned with the latter.

> > >

> > > Regards

> > >

> > > Rodge

> >

> > =====>

> > Michael Penney

> > Sharpener of the Cutting Edge

> > BigTimeWeb.Com

> > >

>

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