From your comments above, I can tell that you haven't used a newer Mac in the past 2 years. At least nothing newer then a G4 800. Like the other reply states, GHz isn't a measure of speed. Not when one system can do more in one cycle then the other can do in several cycles. Just like an Opteron, or FX, a fully optimized G5 can run circles around a 3+Ghz Pentium. And for the most part, G4's in the 1+Ghz range are about the same performace as a mid range XP; Which is by no means slow. OSX use the GPU and Altivec to render all graphics, so 2D video performance on a Mac feels and is faster for the most part then a PC, even when the PC has a more powerful video card. And if one is in the market for the fastest notebook only an inch thick, they certainly won't find it on the PC side right now
You're underestimating how many people have actually moved to OSX. Like most of my associates, the only thing that held me back was Photoshop and when that was released, it was a no brainer. Every app that I need is available for OSX and has been for a while. There are also several apps that I use that are OSX only. Your comment about apps not being ported is dated and no longer holds true.
If one knows how to use OS9, OSX is cake. It's by far the best Mac OS to date and is very easy to use, even more so then OS9. No more "Extensions," or "Control Panels" to deal with and it's performance is not only fast, but rock stable.
Exactly, the problem lies with the animator(s)/direction. =)
Flash is only limited by the user. This animation is a good example of that. Looking at Flash as only an animaton tool, is very ignorant. Flash, like Director can be used to create all types of content. Pretty much whatever one can imagine.
What's scary, is that more an more short cartoons are ending up on TV that were created using Flash. "Gary the Rat" is one of them.
Comparing Flash to a flim really isn't fair, nor is it a good comparison since it's geared towards a completely different market. One can easily say that unlike film, Flash can provide true interaction.
FYI, Flash MX can embed movie media, so games like Dragon's Lair ( as an example ) could easily be recreated in Flash. Or this entire series could've been created in video first, then assembled in Flash kind of like a DVD.
Please don't use this Broken animation as an example of Flash, it only shows about 5% of Flash's capabilities and like any media, it could've been done better with the right people.
You can pause, forward and reverse with Flash using Action Script.
Here's an excellent example made a couple of years back and it was done with Flash 5. Make sure to click on "Advanced Controls" buton in the upper right when watching the prologue.
http://www.becominghuman.org/
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From your comments above, I can tell that you haven't used a newer Mac in the past 2 years. At least nothing newer then a G4 800. Like the other reply states, GHz isn't a measure of speed. Not when one system can do more in one cycle then the other can do in several cycles. Just like an Opteron, or FX, a fully optimized G5 can run circles around a 3+Ghz Pentium. And for the most part, G4's in the 1+Ghz range are about the same performace as a mid range XP; Which is by no means slow. OSX use the GPU and Altivec to render all graphics, so 2D video performance on a Mac feels and is faster for the most part then a PC, even when the PC has a more powerful video card. And if one is in the market for the fastest notebook only an inch thick, they certainly won't find it on the PC side right now
You're underestimating how many people have actually moved to OSX. Like most of my associates, the only thing that held me back was Photoshop and when that was released, it was a no brainer. Every app that I need is available for OSX and has been for a while. There are also several apps that I use that are OSX only. Your comment about apps not being ported is dated and no longer holds true.
If one knows how to use OS9, OSX is cake. It's by far the best Mac OS to date and is very easy to use, even more so then OS9. No more "Extensions," or "Control Panels" to deal with and it's performance is not only fast, but rock stable.
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Exactly, the problem lies with the animator(s)/direction. =) Flash is only limited by the user. This animation is a good example of that. Looking at Flash as only an animaton tool, is very ignorant. Flash, like Director can be used to create all types of content. Pretty much whatever one can imagine. What's scary, is that more an more short cartoons are ending up on TV that were created using Flash. "Gary the Rat" is one of them. Comparing Flash to a flim really isn't fair, nor is it a good comparison since it's geared towards a completely different market. One can easily say that unlike film, Flash can provide true interaction. FYI, Flash MX can embed movie media, so games like Dragon's Lair ( as an example ) could easily be recreated in Flash. Or this entire series could've been created in video first, then assembled in Flash kind of like a DVD. Please don't use this Broken animation as an example of Flash, it only shows about 5% of Flash's capabilities and like any media, it could've been done better with the right people.
Here's a link to the Linux player: =) http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/alter nates/
You can pause, forward and reverse with Flash using Action Script. Here's an excellent example made a couple of years back and it was done with Flash 5. Make sure to click on "Advanced Controls" buton in the upper right when watching the prologue. http://www.becominghuman.org/
That's 10 hours of pauses, and a half hour of actual animation. =)
Yeah there is, it just requires know how. Something most Flash monkey's are ignorant to.