hi! long discussion by now... good! On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 10:43:18 -0400 "Kafka's Daytime" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Folks... > > I'm also a huge Lingo/Director fan and am not elated about the idea of > eventually having to go to Flash/ActionScript. I do have > some other tools in my kit so with some luck I'll never be > out of a job. > the good thing is that the better you know one language the more you can talk another, if you know what i mean. javascript, lingo and actionscripting while not the same are similar enough for someoen who knwos one to pick up tthe other two in a very short time. and doing director work nowadays - i find anyways - means to talk to the flash and javascript guys constantly anyways (with all the embedded shockwave and flash etc) > As my drill sergeant used to say..."SON...DISPLAY SOME ADAPTABILITY!!" :-) > > Josie > well said! > > ...whereas i'm from Toronto, Canada, and i have noticed a sharp downward > trend in jobs that demand knowledge of Director and Lingo. at the same > time, there is a steady rise in the number of people who are interested in > such a career. i teach at a local design and technology college, partly > because it's good experience, partly because it lets me use cutting edge > technology, but mostly because i can't find studio work. i have worked for sae technolgy college london for quite some time as head of the multimedia department so i can relate very much to what you are saying about students, etc. and/but a lot of the colleges do miss the point slightly as they try to satisfy the need for students to learn a new piece of software without sufficiently making them aware that it may not be the 'right 'one fro all applications. the students are then too focused/polarised for their one good.... > as i mentioned at the beginning of this email: yes. in fact, one of my > fellow teachers keeps going on and on about how CD-ROMs (as a software > platform) are *dead*, and how so many companies in Toronto haven't done a > CD-ROM in years, and how it will be another 5 years at most before CD-ROMs > (and DVD-ROMs) disappear completely, and the whole world turns into one > great, giant spiderWeb. i don't think so actually. cd-roms may be succeeded by dvd-roms evenually (maybe not so far in the future, - but maybe i am too old to make qwuick rpedictions for this industry..?). one thing i do feel very strongly is that most clients/companies who have a cd-rom done in director hugely 'underuse' directors capabilities. (why only churn out a beefed up slide-show or put your web site onto a cd-rom if you have all the power of director at your disposal? -or is it that there are in fact too few people around who can use director properly and efficiently, and the ones who end up doing the cds would make a really good cd a long and expensive ventuer (by basically having to learn on the job [not that we all do that anyway..]). > i haven't tried Director 8.5, because i'm wondering if it's worth it at > all. <shrug> my thoughts are that i should skip it altogether and change my > allegiance to Flash (which, by the way, i do NOT want to do). i think that the two things that will keep director afloat and going in the future are: ******** the 3d thing and shockwave on one hand. director seems to be the only decent authoring tool for 3d on the web at the moment(is there any other comparable one?) and ******** authrign for dvds. because of my past as an audio engineer i am naturally interested in any audio disk techhnolgy and thereforem currently looking into dvd-audio as well as -video) and it seems that with all the back catalogue the content providers have of music and film, there is a huge amount director could and should snap up!!!!! this may not be the most interesting work, but then again live is what you make it! > honestly, though, unless someone can refute the "five-year death" of > CD-ROMs, i'm seriously considering leaving this field. hey - stick with it! cheers nik! maybe i should go > back to IT... there's *tonnes* of IT work in Toronto these days. :P > > cheers, > > > > parker [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/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!]
