Re: FLASH: voice over

[james]

--- Michael Penne <

digit8ryahoo [dot] com

> wrote:

> Good advice for using any presentation type program

> I'm aware of. The places I've worked doing CD-ROM

> and Web work, we always have machines of various

> processor speeds and OSs to test our output, whether

it is PPT, Director, Flash, or html. 

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Not quite though, with Powerpoint, I'm able to import

and resize images while keeping very good quality. 

For some reason, with Flash, at least on my systems,

if I bring in an image and size it even just slightly

different than the original size, it looks bad, and

gets worse the greater the size difference of course.


I did test this presentation on several machines as I

always do with web development, and it did fine in

most cases except for the resolution problem.  Even on

slower systems it was watchable.  If I developed in

800x600 and allowed full screen viewing (which we

wanted), then display on 1024x768 the images were all

distorted and vice versa.  With powerpoint, it scales

quite nicely.  I'm not sure if this is do to the

rendering power of the player or what, but that was my

experience.


Then, I had a double whammie - my director's pc didn't

quite have the video power (but had processor and ram)

and lower resolution.  While at the same time, he

could open a PPT file with tons of screen shots and

their lame animations, but it was fast, clear, etc -

that's all that matters to them - they don't care

about the technology behind it.


If my fonts look cleaner and the transitions are

customized and smooth, that's great compared to

powerpoint, but if the screen shots aren't clear or

there's that uncertainty of how it will run in a

different environment, they don't want it.


I'm not even going to get into development time...


This is just the battle *I'm* up against, not saying

this is the case for everyone.  Deep down I feel Flash

is better left to the web environment, screen saves,

and short presentations/intros.  And, if I really feel

strongly about having flash animations, then I'll

embed them in my powerpoint slides.


And the whole deal of not being able to embed a video

clip (avi, mpg) into a flash movie just blows many of

our presentations out the window.  And no, I'm not

dealing with the headaches of exporting to QT.


Just my 2 cents for *my* situation...




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