RE: ---------- >From: Jakob Hede Madsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: <lingo-l> Re: QT communicating with director. >Date: Thu, May 2, 2002, 5:49 PM
>I don't think Flash supports QT, or ever will. >QT supports Flash though. >Flash MX uses Sorenson Spark, which is not QT, which is sort of the point. --------- Right, but going with Flash MX in Director for video, just to get away from QuickTime, will mean far less control, operability, streaming options, and video quality in the bargain. It's also a possiblity that the next version of Director, one likely to include a Flash MX xtra, would also possibly include a QuickTime 6 xtra (or maybe shortly thereafter in an update). QuickTime 6 will support Flash 5 ActionScript and MPEG-4, which are potentially far more exiting in terms of quality and interactive possibilities than the thrill of merely doing away with a plugin requirement. Pop a 9mb video into a movie clip inside a Flash MX movie and you're up for a HUGE wait over a 56k web connection, as the entire timeline of that movie clip must downlaod before playing. Data rate is irrelevant to this happening, unlike with QuickTime in Shockwave, where video will play AS it downlaods if the data rate is low enough for the connection speed (or disk tranfer). I'm still testing, but it appears the same is true in terms of getting that Flash MX video running off a CD-ROM - the entire video/movie clip has to load from the disk before the video will play - unless the video is not in a movie clip and is spread out along the root timeline. That means the root timeline of your Flash MX movie is then going to be linear, and be as long as that video. In this sense, video is more like 'streaming' sound in Flash than like video in Director where QuickTime movies will start to play after only a few frames are loaded from a disk OR over the web in Shockwave movies. Steve Bennett www.ifmp.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
