Re: [-empyre-] Re: flash mx and vogs

[Adrian Miles <adrian.miles@uib.no>]

At 10:11 -0400 21/6/02, Brandon Thomas Barr wrote:
> Just imported a video file into Flash MX, and it actually allows you to
> map each fram onto the MX timeline.  What this means, is that you could do
> many things--add buttons to video objects, link back and forth between
> different sections of video, draw on the video frames a la "Waking
> Life."  In other words, MX allows you to make a video fully interactive in
> all the ways that any other Flash element can be (of course, with a much
> larger file size).  The penetration of the v6 player is 80% and climbing
> quickly, so that makes MX a very possible route for this sort of thing.  I
> may just have to go film 15 sec movies with my digital camera and vog
> something myself.  :)  MX seems to make it easy-peasy.

hi brandon

ok, if the smallest level of granularity of flash mx is per frame of 
video than flash mx isn't even in the ball park. to explain:

forget about video/mx for the moment and just think of flash. imagine 
if you were making a flash thingie and you were told that the minimal 
level (or maximum level of 'focus' depending on how you look at it) 
was an entire frame. this means: you can't script/make something that 
is interactive (say vary volume) only in that 40x80 pixel spot at a 
specific x,y coordinate in the stage. you could only script this for 
the entire stage for one or more frames.

i might have misread the explanation, and i just don't use flash so 
this could be a sad parody :-) (though quixiotic (sp?) seems more 
appropriate).

but the frame is just too big a level for interactive video. in a vog 
i can (and do) have an action that only refers to part of a frame or 
frames, in exactly the same way that in flash you would script an 
object on part of the stage for a specific duration.

anything that can only think at the level of the frame is 
inappropriate for interactive video. translating to html i'd suggest 
it's the equivalent of saying that you can have one link per 
screen/page and that is realised outside of the page via the browser 
(since a link within a page would be to provide a 'focus' within part 
of the frame).

cheers
adrian miles
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