Re: FLASH: Keeboo - More?s

[Nathan Dicken]

Hi Jeff,


The demo that is viewable on the web is definitely done in Flash.  I only

had time to check out most of the "gather" part of the demo - you can tell

it's Flash by right-clicking on the overall movie.  If it's Flash you'll

get a Zoom In/Zoom Out... menu, otherwise if it's Shockwave for Director it

will have a menu that includes Restart, etc...


I work in Director quite a bit and each program would have it's pros and

cons...  For example, in Director, you could hide the cursor or hide it

from a specific area of the screen as the demo plays.  Director also is

made to handle bitmap images and you wouldn't have to compress them so much

as in Flash to keep the file size down.

You can also create delays and pause/start/stop features much easier with

Lingo than with Flash (even though Flash isn't too difficult also).  The

percentage of users that have the Shockwave-Director plug in is less than

the Flash so that would be a concern based on the audience.  Overall, Flash

would handle the animation well and so would Director, but I would probably

choose Director for this type of demo with screen captures, bitmaps and all

- primarily based on the nature of the project that this is.  There are

utilities out there that allow you to do screen motion captures but this is

not possible solely with Director's capabilities.  Another good point with

Director is that you could have Flash elements and import them into

Director and control them from within Director.  Director can't export to

Flash though.  Hope this helps...


Nathan Dicken



>

>If it was created in Director, could it not be exported to Flash.swf?

>Then would you be able to tell from the source in the html?

>

>I was asked to bid on something similar to the demo, and I figured to do

>all that in Flash would take more than 3 weeks including drawing all

>items.  There are no shortcuts in Flash to create that screen tutorial

>type motion... but I was wondering if there is something like screen

>motion capture features in Director or some other program that would

>speed the production.


>>> Click View the DEMO at

>>> http://www.keeboo.com./ENU/index.html

>>>

>

>--

>Jefferis Kent Peterson

>www.PetersonSales.net



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