stupid html formatting!!! here let's try this...
Evan Adelman wrote:
> Dunno if this will help, but I've had some nasty experiences with the
> Flash xtra and lower grade machines -- actually, I never figured out if
> it was just Flash or Director's Flash Xtra, but either way it was a
> little over 3 weeks extra work (2 trying to find the phantom problem,
> and 1 reworking the Flash to get it to work). If you go low, I'd say
> test early and test very often on your target platform and, best case
> scenario, work into the spec's the words "best effort on environment
> xyz". I don't think the lower order of processor was the problem, I
> think it was a combination of low memory and crap-o-rific sound card
> (cause there was a decent size voice over in the Flash movie).
>
> Anyway, I'd be wary of any development for machines >4 years old for
> advanced stuff -- the reason they might treat Director like PowerPoint
> is that nothing else works in their environment. In retrospect with my
> client, I would have requested one of their target machines to test on
> (or you work on site) cause even if you try to replicate their systems
> (which I did), you have no idea what they have done to those machines
> since they bought them (added new hardware, spilled coffee on them, had
> drunken office parties and used it as an ashtray).
>
> Oh, and by the way, I tried reverting to 8.0 from 8.5 when experiencing
> the problem to no help -- again though, I'm still not sure where the
> real problem was, flash or director.
>
> Good luck,
> -Evan
>
>>So here's the list of questions:
>>I see that 8.5 has lower requirements than 8.0 (133mhz vs 200mhz Pent -
>>small difference), and 7 has Pentium (no speed) listed. I'm going to lean
>>toward authoring in 8.5 rather than 7 (because hell I can't remember all the
>>changes since then anyway) -- now for a plain vanilla director app I can go
>>by the Macromedia specs...but what should I think in terms of
>>
>>video (mpg1 or QT sorenson or cinepak)
>>Audio (mp3 compression or not)
>>Flash (if at all playing in director, ie no alphas)
>>PDF (play within the app via pdf xtra which is slow or launch externally --
>>what are the system requirements of the pdf xtra?)
>>Powerpoint (using Ravware's PPViewer Xtra to play within the app or launch
>>externally)
>>
>>Let's just say that the client I'm dealing with isn't very tech-savvy and
>>don't know director's capabilities -- they've been using it as powerpoint --
>>and it's one of those cases that I can
>>make recommendations without hard
>>specs and they look at me like a dog who lost his food bowl.
>>
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