In advance I would like to apologize for what may seem to be, and quite
possibly is in some cases, a rant.
I have used it while on contract, and it is not all that great.
For animation it is okay and sprites points bones and IK are great; yet,
no coding improvements, other than not having to be case sensitive all
the time for code hinting to work; however, I have found several bugs
already with it; thus, flashdevelop is hundreds of miles ahead and I am
so thankful that they exist; as well, they didn't even to give their
dedicated code editor, dreamweaver the capability to edit AS1,2,3, which
makes me believe they have real idiots managing things, and could be the
reason, other than the downturn of the economy, as to why there apps are
not selling as well as expected.
I agree paying for an app that does everything would be horribly costly;
however, paying for an app that gave you only the pieces you wanted to
pay for on a modular basis, akin to SOA model, would make it so tighter
integration and ease of use would be easily achievable. Just imagine
the productivity if everything had a parent app that allowed to turn on
and off features that were tightly integrated based upon what you needed
at the time you were using the app.
As it stands I have to keep 5 applications open at once on consistent
basis, and having them integrate is annoyingly over complex, to
downright impossible in some cases, so you better have real experience
with choosing your work-flow and usage of apps.
-copying the vector info from flash cs3 to illustrator is easy; however,
I quite often come across situations where it will not copy the filters,
and don't get me started on how difficult it is to get those vectors
paths to properly work with photoshop.
-What the hell happened to image ready? Photoshop cs3 lost a lot of
features when they tried to merge them, and I think it is due to them
just wanting to force you to purchase more applications to fill small
wholes.
-Why not just give flash developers the ability to publish directly to
DVD? it is because they want to force you to purchase encore, when it
would be so easy to make it possible in the flash IDE; as well, not
being able to do tis from flash makes you have to employ work arounds to
get your content on the DVD.
-Soundbooth just sucks ass and I am forced to use cakewalk or protools
to edit audio and bring it into flash.
I will stop it here or I will be at it for weeks.
Ashim D'Silva wrote:
One app the does everything would be terrible. You'd have to pay for
features you don't want and will have to run an incredibly beefy program
that will take the strongest of systems down. Maybe at some point, maybe
when quantum computing is around!, but till then I'd say it's organised
well.That however, is not an excuse for the terrible code editor.
As for the original post, I have gotten my hands on CS4 just yet, but I've
seen demo's and video tuts, and WOW.. its a pretty big jump and fantastic
features for animators, which possibly means power for devs as well. But all
of it could be done through code in 9, so maybe they've just made it easier
for animators to do, but that's great none the less.
2009/1/8 Mendelsohn, Michael <[email protected]>
Anthony, I'm going out on a limb and guessing that the "why don't they
just make it all one app that does everything" suggestion has been
around longer than you've been alive. Don't lose any sleep over that
one. :-D
- MM
They don't care enough about users to make one application that does
everything, or
an app that integrates extremely easily with another feature set if
purchased; for, they don't think like that.
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