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

[Laura Mollett]

> I just attempted a 400 frame pan. Flash's keyframe interpolation is crap

> beyond belief. The staggering in the move makes it unusable for my

> purposes. It can't do everything......


I didn't mean to imply it can do everything... I'm a little iffy as to how

"small" these projects are tho (both what you're talking about and what

Michael is) and again, I've never done anything of the sort. I can't imagine

needing a 400 frame pan. Probably the longest movie I've done is 1,000

frames (and now that I'm using actionscript for more, they're much smaller

:) The projects are too big for flash and too small for director? Would you

have been able to do the project you're discussing here in powerpoint? Most

anything I've seen in powerpoint could easily be done in Flash, but again my

experience is pretty limited.


Living in the graphic design world, I've mostly seen director used for

things like the cd stock art presentations... those are *really* large

numbers of high quality graphic images and I can't imagine trying to deal

with anything like that in Flash, no. But I also can't imagine that

companies of that size would have a problem getting director on both

platforms (and having both platforms available for testing), at least when

considering the huge expense they must be putting into the printed works

they provide. Those beautiful catalogues they send out for free must cost a

fortune.


Maybe what's really being asked for is a program inbetween the two... that

does video (though yeah, you could use quicktime), deals better with highres

bitmap images, and works well on cd? What I'm trying to ask, from very

limited experience, is where are the lines? What would meet your needs

better than what's available?


Hope that makes sense,

Laura



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