Re: FLASH: CD Rom production - Director is so bogus

[Michael Greenberg]

Bravo JD.....well said:):)


Michael


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From: jdowdellmacromedia [dot] com (John Dowdell)

>

Reply-To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

> Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 18:04:47 -0700

>

To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

> Subject: Re: FLASH: CD Rom production - Director is so bogus

> 

> At 5:05 PM 5/10/0, Jefferis wrote:

>> You need to buy Director for both Platforms to output it to CD ROM?  That

>> is so bogus.

>> Do you have to do that for the web too?

>> Every other program I use extensively outputs for dual platforms.  IS

>> this a scam? or what?

> 

> More like "what". ;-)

> 

> If you're creating a PC application, it really helps to be on a PC

> yourself. Otherwise it's like driving a car in France, while you're still

> in your living room in Kansas... hard to quickly get appropriate feedback,

> know what I mean...? ;-)

> 

> Director's standalone Projectors are tuned to the content at hand...

> besides including the platform-neutral movie files, they can include a

> range of platform-specific extensions for database access, new media or

> display options, 3D abilities, etc. It's hard to make customized single

> EXEs on some other platform.

> 

> If you're determined to be cash-cheap and time-rich, you can use what's

> called a "stub" projector that just branches to your first movie. All your

> platform-neutral movie files would be outside this stub, of course, and you

> couldn't customize the set of Xtras, or hide your external libraries, but

> that's one way to do it in a low-capital way. You'd find it mandatory to

> actually test your work as you go along, though, particularly on a _range_

> of typical delivery machines.

> 

> You could just as easily search the technotes for this info, though... I've

> been typing it for years, nothing new here. If you'd prefer to hear it

> *not* from me, then post the same rant on DIRECT-L, and you'll hear the

> exact same thing, although probably with a bit more color and vigor.... ;-)

> 

> jd

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> John Dowdell, Macromedia Tech Support, San Francisco CA US

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