RE: FLASH: LiveMotion - Pros & Cons

[daniel gray]

from this poor hack's perspective ...


-


- LiveMotion doesn't do actionscripting or forms.  

  If you're doing high end work with scripting, you'll 

  certainly stick with Flash--it owns the high end.  :)  

  (LiveMotion does have behaviors--but they're kinda basic.)  

- LM doesn't have a Tracing tool.  

- LM will turn objects into bitmaps if you apply effects 

  that require such.*  (If you stay on top of things, this 

  shouldn't be a problem.) 

- LM doesn't create projector files.


+ 


+ LiveMotion makes quick work out of rollovers (straight, 

  remote, and cascading) and many animation tasks. 

+ It also gets along well with Photoshop and Illustrator 

  (access to layered artwork) and has some cool time-saving 

  features such as styles (that can include rollover and 

  animation information).  

+ There's a traditional Pen tool.  

+ The Timeline is inspired by AfterEffects.

+ It also creates sliced JavaScript files.


* (The compression's pretty good.)


In ways, it could be said that LiveMotion is aimed at creatives 

that want to create SWF files but have had a difficult time 

getting going with Flash (for whatever reason).


If anyone's interested in LiveMotion training, I'm in the 

process of pulling together a little one-day seminar thang.  

There's a quick survey at:


http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?TAR3QQY330S9XVFNPKEW4PBK



Cheers,

Dan

http://geekbooks.com


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