Re: FLASH: ZDNET's Comparison Flash v. LiveMotion

[daniel gray]

Gregg Caines wrote:


> The bitmap issue is only really touched on, IMO... bitmaps make the

> filesize so much bigger that the SWF is no longer useful for the task it is

> intended for: web animation.  There are better products for non-web

> based animation, so it makes me wonder what livemotion's purpose is.


It will be very very cool to see some objective apples-to-apples

filesize comparisons--with the *release* version of LM, not the beta.  I

have faith that the engineers have done their job.

 

> I've tried livemotion, and without even a warning, it converts your work

> to bitmaps the first time you try to use one of its 'effects'.  It can

> certainly do effects that flash cannot do, but the filesize is not

> web-worthy, so the point of the SWF is totally missed.


LiveMotion does, in fact, let you know if it's going to bitmap an object.


Turn on View|Active Export Preview.  Select the object in question and

take a look at the bottom of the window.  It reports on file size,

object size, and object type.


If it's bitmapped, you can dink around with the per-object compression settings.

 

> Now if you stay away from the effects, you can stick with vectors and

> match the filesizes of flash, but there is no reason for a veteran

> flash-user

> to make the switch.  It seems that livemotion is just to bring adobe users

> who have never used SWFs up to date, without having to learn something

> new/better.


Seems and is are two different things.  There are some amazing time

savers built into LM.  If you bill at $100 an hour and LM saves you 2-3

hours, the program's just paid for itself.  It's not *the* weapon, it's

*a* weapon.


If I could play a round of golf with just a nine iron, I'd be king ...

but that's another story.  


> Don't even get me started on the lack of scripting...


Yup.  LM doesn't do scripting.  I got over it.  :)  That's what Flash is for!


Cheers,

Dan


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