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

[Michael@BTW]

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From: "Phillip Kerman" <

phillipteleport [dot] com

>


People are constantly being told, (by myself as well) to use Director for

their slide shows, and mixed media (video/qtvr + flash) presentations. These

simple presentations, which of course Director handles better, don't require

much in the way of testing to run fine both platforms.


At the courseware development lab which is my day job, we produce about 8-10

CD-ROM projects/year, only 1 or 2 require platform specific or custom xtras.

Many people want a decently stable, reasonably easy way to combine video and

other media in presentations. However, QuickTime(LiveStage) and Windows

Media (PPT2k) have recently begun to be useful for these types of

presentations, and DVD authoring software is maturing in its ability to

handle mixed media, so your probably right about the point being moot.

>

> Another thing I don't get about the post... who says people are using

> Director for simple things?  The time to use Director is when it's super

> complicated or you want to reach-out to external files (and other

> applications).  It really is a case of comparing apples to oranges.

>

> Finally, Director's paint window is obviously not Photoshop...  and

> personally, I'm glad Macromedia has spent time making Director better in

> OTHER ways than simply improving the paint window (of course the graphics

> people with whom I work have Photoshop...so what's the point?).

>

> Phillip


It has scarcely changed since Director 4 (that was the point).


>

> > Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 13:14:57 -0700

>

> From: "Michael@BTW" <mplistbigtimeweb [dot] com>

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

> >




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