RE: FLASH: ANN: Generator 2, new versions

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Jeffries,


Not John answering but I'm sure he will add to my answer if necessary.

This subject came up some days ago on this list and some examples where

implied or given. In essence we can have two basic areas.

One would be to have a library of template movies that could be configured

to a particular request or situation by just filling in the changeable

information. This would rely mostly on the offline capabilities of Generator

as you would be delivering .swf files to your clients. This type of usage is

good for small scale clients that could choose from a catalogue of pre

defined templates what they want and then just give you the information to

generate the final movie. The advantages here are that even if the initial

investment to build a reasonably sized and varied template library might be

a bit high you will be able to 'sell' each template multiple times and have

very short production times for your movies.

Another area that can benefit is if you have frequently changing information

that you want to be delivered via a flash movie. The answer to this

situation could involve online generation or just offline generation

depending on the time interval that the changes require. As an added bonus

if the changes are mostly object changes, i.e. text and or data and or some

images you can have the client trigger them. Just have an admin sub area on

the clients sites that he has access to and from where he can upload the new

elements via forms or whatever. Then a simple cgi could trigger the

generation of the new versions of the flash movies and you would only need

to make sure the checks keep coming in ;).


Hope this helps


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