Re: Which is better? Flash/Real or Director

[anthony berry]

At 11:14 PM 5/26/98 -0600, you wrote:

>There's a lot of video.  They demonstrate the massage technique. And it has

>to stream well.  So I guess I'm leaning towards using flash for the menu

>screens - ie. the whole website aspect, and poping up a Real window for the

>video clips & background music/narration.

>Does this sound feasible?

>The original idea was to create a demo of the CD on the web for marketing

>purposes.  But now, we're leaning towards putting the whole thing on the

>web.  In other words, a *web application*.  Skip the CD distribution costs;

>let 'em buy it and *use* it directly from the web.

>Has anyone else done a real web application like this?

>Wayne Townsend


at the risk of stating the obvious, how about flash inside director via the

flash xtra?  there's lots of combinations that could work well - a

web-utilizing projector, some combination of director/flash shockwave,

browser (html) based presentation even without shockwave.  but no matter

which way you slice it, a video heavy presentation delivered solely via the

web is going to be slow.  you'd really be limiting your market.  fwiw i

just got a 56k modem (v90) and streaming video still "sucks" (scientific

term).


you might consider distributing just the video on a cd-rom, and keeping the

projector up to date via a url. (a stub which goes and gets your

presentation and possibly different flash modules off the net). we're just

starting to explore the opportunities director as a web aware application

offers - using the web for "live" updates.  interesting area to be in right

now.


regards

aeb



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