RE: FLASH: LiveMotion - Pros & Cons

[Dorian Nisinson]

I heard someone recently compare adding bitmaps to a Flash movie, to adding

weights to a race horse. Sometimes you have to do it, but you wouldn't do it

any more than you absolutely had to.



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From: ownerchinwag [dot] com [ownerchinwag [dot] com]On">mailto:ownerchinwag [dot] com]On Behalf Of John

> Dowdell

> Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 6:15 PM

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> At 2:53 PM 5/3/0, work wrote:

> > rummor has it that flash 5 will have filter effects and almost

> > the same exact feature that LM has.

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> No, sorry, that was Fireworks 3.... ;-)

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> In Fireworks you can apply Photoshop-style pixel filters to live vectors

> and change the filter settings at any time... all the effects are

> re-rendered on demand. It also has a full range of drawing tools,

> including

> the wild Pressure Scrubber, and exports still or animated SWF. Fireworks

> offers the nice choice of whether you want to export pixel-based SWF, or

> vector-based SWF... you can make your own decision, at export time.

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> But Fireworks 3.0 exports SWF mostly as a means of reclaiming artwork from

> that specialized delivery editor. It would be sort of self-destructive to

> willfully bloat SWF files like that, so I'd be surprised if Flash 5 put

> effort into supporting pixel-based filtering... there are more important

> things to do.

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> jd

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