Re: FLASH: LiveMotion - Pros & Cons

[Laura Mollett]

Hi Michael,


> If you go to http://www.flashmagazine.com They did a lil sneak peak at

> Flashforward in SF and believe that might be where his info is from.


Thanks - this is nice to know :) I'm dying of curiosity about flash 5, along

with everyone else.


> Despite what Flash 5 may or may not have in store for us. I think Live

> Motion wasn't a very good stab at Flash for so many reasons.


I think sometime down the road it might offer more interface with photoshop,

which would be nice (I'd say with adobe products - but flash already works

beautifully with illustrator) and rasters, but atm it sounds like these are

causing more problems than they're worth.


It might be that it's faster/easier to create some small effects in LM - if

there were quite a few cases where this was true that might make it useful.

Also, it might integrate with html (various xml options that aren't there

yet?).


All of those indicate to me that it's worth keeping an eye on, though I

haven't heard anything that makes it sound like a necessary secondary

program (certainly not a replacement) for people already experienced in

flash. I might feel differently if I didn't have the several years

background, but considering some of the problems noted here, I think I would

have trouble recommending it to new users as of yet as well. Still might

easily become a nice "entry" to this kind of animation/streaming effects on

the web, and so is worth watching for that as well.


More 2 cents, I'm going to go broke soon :)

Laura


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