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

[Michael Greenberg]

I guess to put this as straight forward as I can. I don't think there is

such thing as project being too small for Director. I think the question

should be...What do I need to accomplish and what tools would be the best to

accomplish that.There are certain projects I have done that have Director

written all over them. I have to honestly say wheather I am going to

recommend going to use Director or Flash or both even depends on so many

factors. Too many to just list here.


But I once I know the scope of the project and see the obstacles involved

wheather it be a plug-in issue or lotsa bitmaps or an MIAW (Movie In A

Window) or etc.


So I have to honestly say much depends on the task at hand to what I will

use. To put a bitmap slide show together in Director you could do without

writing any Lingo at all so if that were the task at hand I would probably

pick Director.


Bottom line is choose your weapon and choose it based on what will work best

for your project.


Michael


>

From: "Laura Mollett" <lmollettmindspring [dot] com>

>

Reply-To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

> Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 23:33:00 -0400

>

To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

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

> youdefine  the end of this thread?

> 

>> 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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