FLASH: CD ROM and Director con't

[Jefferis]

Okay, so from my starting the previous thread, I've culled a basic thrust 

from MM that Director's output options are so vast that on different OS's 

it isn't possible to create a unified program...etc.


That makes me wonder...  If I became an accomplished Director user on the 

Mac, I would totally incompetent on the WIN version?  I could use the 

techniques but I'd have to study WIN programming to make it work???   


The only thing it would be good for me is  - not CD's  or Kiosks [unless 

it happened to be a Mac Kiosk}  - but for Shockwave productions.  Sure, 

if I were producing a Mac Game CD or Mac only environment production, it 

would work, but if I needed to do something cross platform for a client.. 

I am SOL. Hire a Win programmer to do it, cause it isn't just the 

program, you need to be totally 2 platform? 


Is there then a better way to produce a self running CD ROM that is cross 

platform that is merely a presentation and not a database integrated ASP 

production or game?


Is it better to produce  a Flash  & HTML Browser CD ROM?  Can't you 

somehow get the advantages of a Powerpoint type environment [with menus] 

without all the hassles?


What - use Acrobat with PDF's ?  Does it allow hyperlinks with embedded 

Flash? 


Just curious if there isn't a low cost, non-programming way to do 

something on CD that works on the Web.


Jeff 


>Someone said something like, Director is often recommended on this list for

>simpler projects (and they're right, it is) where there might be a question

>of cost justification ($2,000 because they'll need it to be

>cross-compatable). I asked why they would recommend Director for *those*

>(simpler/less complex/less need for flexibility - choose your own term)

>projects and was given 3 perfectly reasonable responses (lotsa bitmaps, need

>for video, and a 400 frame pan - all things flash wouldn't handle well.) I

>was *trying* to go on from there and ask something like "do you not have

>enough of these simpler projects to justify a $2,000.00?" Are these really

>simplier projects? What is it the people who think director *should* output

>as both Mac/PC in the $1,000.00 program are really asking for?



Jefferis Peterson, Pres.

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