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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	I've worked on both for years. I started programing on Director...well along time ago(It was only available on the Mac) then I started using flash when I got into web work. Director was the first of the two programs as far as Macromedia is concerned. It began life as an advanced Powerpoint. Macromedia purchased futureSplash which became flash later. Director is the more powerful of the two programs. Its file size is also a lot larger. Its designed so you can create very advanced interactive programs with many different media types(flash, several kinds of video, raster graphics, verious sound formats, etc. It can also access and manipulate many more file types through xtras(extensions). Hell, you can build some pretty robust applications in Director. It is also great for 3D games. It animates raster graphics real well. The shockwave plug-in has about one-tenth the market penatration of the flash plug-in and its a bigger download for the enduser. I really only use director now for clients requiring CD-Roms. Most games, other than 3-D, can now be done in flash. As for the authoring enviroment, I actually like a lot of director's features. I can test scripts without exporting the movie and I can program one central script for the whole app without having to create 20 different clips to hold the scripting. Flash cannot import shockwave files, unless they made some changes that I'm not aware of(never say never). It works the other way - I usually use director to "unify" lots of different media types and make the interface. As for an Intro, use Flash. I'm guessing your talking about a splash page. Most users don't want to wait for a 200K+ intro to download to see your site- if they have the plug-in. You can keep a flash Intro under 50K easily if you don't use any raster graphics. [img]http://tikifolk.com/ozone/tiki2.gif[/img] -tiki, cell [url=http://faq.ozoneasylum.com/FaqWiki/shownode.php?id=478] 478 [/url] Loading...
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