RE: FLASH: edit-in-place

[John Dowdell]

At 2:18 PM 4/3/0, Jason Bouwmeester wrote:

> I thought that one of the key features of LiveMotion was to

> be able to update a Photoshop file without having to reload it.


Sorry, no, when you import a PSD to LiveMotion there's not the option to

keep media internal or external, as you'd see when importing a PSD to

Director. Because there's not a Library*, I don't see a path reference to

the external file as in Flash, either.


(* LiveMotion *does* have a window named "Library", but it's a different

use of the term than in Flash... it seems to be more like a shortcut

through the Import dialog. This is more of the same crossnaming problem

that you'll find with terms like "layer" or "behavior".)


That said, in LiveMotion you *can* invoke Photoshop to edit bitmaps that

were originally PSDs, by using the "Edit Original" menu command. If you

check the image's titlebar in Photoshop, though, you'll find you're editing

a temp file rather than the original file on disk.


Rephrased, you cannot update a file in Photoshop and have all LiveMotion

files use this new reference, as you can in Director. You *can*, however,

open a set of LiveMotion files and then edit each of their copies of the

original image in Photoshop, though.



Sidenote: To actually have something resembling the "RoundTrip Graphics" in

Fireworks 2, necessary improvements would have to include (a) keeping

assets external; (b) finding the source file used to create a delivery

file; (c) passing editing information between applications, such as the new

dimensions of an image resized in Dreamweaver. This "RoundTrip Graphics"

term is also in danger of being obfuscated.



It also doesn't look like the list of external editors is configurable...

in Director and Dreamweaver you can choose which applications are invoked

to edit particular media elements. LiveMotion seems hardwired to only

invoke Adobe-brand tools....


If my observations here are incorrect, then I'd appreciate further info

from the Adobe marketing folks on the list, thanks in advance.


jd






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