RE: FLASH: Re: Director 7 is released

[John Ware]

At 12:55 PM -0800 11/17/98, Rick Turoczy wrote:

>John and anyone else,

>

>This "file size" note sparked a couple of questions (forgive me if they

>are incredibly stupid, I've only dealt with Flash media) . . . do

>Director files stream?  Or does the Flash file still stream within the

>Director file?


not stupid at all. Director files CAN stream, but the author has to do some

work to have a really effective streaming movie.


>I always remember sitting, staring at a Shockwave logo, waiting for

>Director files to load on the web. It never seemed that they streamed.


See above. Many people don't do the work. We have made it much easier in d7.


Flash files will stream into the flash asset inside director quite easily

if they are left as externally linked media, but then they won't benefit

from directors internal compression. This is similiar to how director

handles linked media of other types, such as .gif, .jpg, etc.(although

those formats have compression anyway), or even .txt or .rtf


Thanks

--jcw

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John C. Ware

Shock Therapist

Macromedia


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