Re: FLASH: Re: Director 7 is released

[David Gary]

Mike Greenberg wrote:


> Dave,

> Please elaboarate. I have alot of CD Development under my belt.

>

> Be Specific.

>


Hiya Mike,


Thanks for the attention. Heres the original post:


>I have a question about the performance of Flash's animations compared to the

>animations' of Director. I notice alot of CD-rom developers use Dir for their

>interactivity in conjuction with QT movies(.mov). I also notice that by doing

>this

>the Dir animations, calling up QT(quicktime) movies, play the animations much

>faster

>in the .mov format than say the animations imported as a sequence of images and


>played with Flash3's engine. Since you cant implement AVI, MOV or any other

>video format into your flash files, but only imported sequences instead, does

>this mean that Flash is inadequate for CD-rom development use?

>Of course CD development gives much more freedom in file size than web

>development. Because of this and Flash's limited vector tools, importing image

>sequence or calling upon video fomats created in more powerful animation

>software

>im more widely used, 3D apps, photo enhancing, etc in CD-rom production.


>I guess I would like to know why Flash is such a pig on processors compared

>to Dir?


>I would also like to know if future versions of Flash will be able to access

>.mov, avi,

>mpeg, etc. formats from within the player.


>I know there are developers on this list experimenting with both. Any

>disscusion?

>Can some of you speak of your findings?


Thanks again for any input,


-DG-



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