Re: FLASH: Fireworks to Flash (SOME THOUGHTS)

[Sean Renet]

okay you all missed the question.

if I make a swf in fireworks, how do I open it as a FLA in flash? or can I?

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Subject: Re: FLASH: Fireworks to Flash (SOME THOUGHTS)



> JD proffered as so:

>

> >You *can* produce SWF animations in Fireworks 3 and deliver them right to

> >the webpage... a SWF is just a SWF, and lots of tools produce SWF these

> >days. But you'd usually want to take advantage of ...

>

> AND, John,

>

> Has MM any interest in making FW "more of" a Flash-Movie-Development

platform?

>

> *Especially* as one-of-several-possible responses to Adobe's

> theoretical "raise" (with LiveMotion) of MM's "ante" (Flash)?

>

> (I *can* see that LM ain't really competition (*yet*), but ya (MM)

> gotta think of it in those terms, nicht wahr?)

>

> What I envision, eventually, is that folks who wish to insist upon

> preferring to think in terms of HTML and gifs and jpegs and even

> animated gifs would certainly *really appreciate* (i.e. "fun" "happy"

> "carefree" "easy") being able to export a form of their "familiar

> thinking" DIRECTLY as a Flash movie. (FAT and HEAVY though the swf

> may be, without refinement ... BUT, HECK, *fat bandwidth* is just a

> nonce away, right? ... Adobe surely seems to be banking on this.)

>

> Such a move would require that MM *cares to incorparate*

> Flash-movies-as-a-feature-of-FW. In my mind, this directly implies a

> need for significant "Wizard" "help" within FW4. Have the wizard

> coach the "code/photoshop addict" through the proper decision-making

> process.

>

> Just some thoughts, the likes of which for which in some arenas I'm

> paid very well :-) ,

>

> Ken Sherwood, standing by, ready to be offered a QC position by a

> certain software company that appears (somewhat) to "care".

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