RE: FLASH: FlashForward 2000 response?

[Justin Everett-Church]

hi,


while I'm happy that there was a flash conference, I was very disappointed

with it overall.  7 exhibitors upstairs?? that was really sad.  there were

plenty more tangential vendors that could have been there.  The first day's

workshops were completely useless. From talking to others, they did seem to

be useful to newcomers to Flash, but I thought from reading the site that it

was for Flash developers. Advanced actionscripting suggested to me that they

would skip the "intro actionscripting" and it would be focused on complex

use of actionscripting, not 2 hours on how to make slider bars (1 hour of

which was supposed to be devoted to FS commands).


on the positive side, I liked the hands on workshop from Adobe on

LiveMotion.  I liked the director/flash seminar and also Flash printing.


The film festival was strange.  ummmm.... Sinbad?  that was just weird


what it all boils down to... when asked by my boss how I liked the

conference, I was REALLY embarrassed.  they spent $1000 for me to go and all

I could tell him was that I know what some of the upcoming features of Flash

5 are going to be.  (pieces of information now available for free on this

list)  I feel like I got swindled but my company paid the price.


I apologize if this post annoys anyone.  I'm very happy if you got something

out of it.  The more people supporting the use of Flash the better.  It will

mean more jobs, and more industry acceptance. All of which is a wonderful

wonderful thing


Justin Everett-Church (spelled Chruch on my badge ;) )






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Subject: FLASH: FlashForward 2000 response?



Sorry, if this has been brought up already, but I just into work and have

930

!!! emails to get through over the next few hours. I just got back from SF

and

the FlashForward conference. Anyone else go? Wanted to hear your reactions,

etc.

Here's mine: Intense. Lots of information, cool stuff to see, LOTS of

people.

Some stuff not quite up to par (the sound discussion was a fiasco) and the

3D

session felt a bit like an infomercial for Swift 3D. And the Flash preview

was a

little disappointing - maybe if they'd revealed something about their plans

for

scripting!!! But Josh Ulm's actionscripting insights made so much sense,

when i

left it was like AHA!!!! Now I get it. And inspired me to get to work on my

own

tutorials (keep an eye out here, I'll post when one's ready). I came up with

a

very simple solution to using mc's in actionscripting to do ANYTHING!! Very

simple approach. Very easy for non-programmers to understand I think. Really

excited. And the film festival was pretty great (though the winners weren't

to

surprising). All in all it would have been nice if there'd been more time

devoted to flash and less to Quicktime, LiveMotion, Real, etc. But I guess

that's politics.


P.S. The response to Live Motion's features seemed a lot more

audience-approved

than those planned for the next version on flash in my opinion. I was more

impressed, anyway.


Anyone else have comments?


--

Michael Dunn



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