Re: Which is better? Flash/Real or Director

[John Dowdell]

At 10:14 PM 5/26/98, Wayne Townsend wrote:

>It's better to really visualize this, so I put up three screen shots in

>flash at

>http://www.webstaffing.net/tpot.html

>

>>If you need to convert this CD project into a web version, then have you

>>considered using HTML itself as the hosting environment?

>

>Not sure I understand you.  Do it all in html?  Why would I?

>No, I need to do it in flash or director because I want to reproduce the

>interactive environment on the CD. (see the screen shots)



Hmm, after looking at the screenshots, and particularly in light of the

primacy of the video content, I'd still likely first reach for HTML

myself... the rollovers and guides for replacement media can be easily set

up in Fireworks.


(Both SuperCard and ToolBook focused on page-based multimedia, and so

they're a close relative to the page-based HTML/browser scheme. If there

was a lot of sprite-based work then that would push strongly to Director or

Flash, but if the main interactivity is rollover buttons, then Fireworks

seems like it'd do the trick.)


The nice thing about HTML, too, is that you can just focus on optimizing

the video, and play it embedded in your page whether it's RealMedia or

QuickTime or whatever you choose. Even in the 3.0 browsers you can use

table layout to butt the graphics right up against the video for that

seamless-looking interface. For instance:

http://film.com/screen/index2.html


Is this type of layout similar to what you're looking at...?


jd






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