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your portfolio is dope man, but the site is a little lacking. i look at the site and can tell your capable of doing so much better. the elements are there, but i fear you suffer from what many of us...

i have to agree with larry, the site does look like its been designed in flash, i love the 3d but my monitor is at 1280x1024 so everything looks like its cellphone display size. you have this weird...

Does anyone know if flash video effects the processor adversely? My CPU Usage occasionaly shoots up when I view my flash movie (around 90%) but I wonder if it isn't also because I use onEnterFrame...

landwehr,

you might want to try this instead,

if(video.getBytesLoaded() >= video.getBytesTotal()*.25){
gotoAndStop("play");
}
else{
gotoAndPlay("load");
}

ok, i think the time has come to talk about transparent gradient masks. it took adobe up until version 9 to have transparencies and mask transparencies in illustrator. i have been waited 4 years for...

it was advertised (i thought) that flash mx could do a global FIND AND REPLACE. so beyond a FIND AND REPLACE in the current frame actions, it could replace throughout the whole movie: buttons, clip...

cut around pictures or cut around videos? (this IS the video section ya know):eek:

the 2x4 video maybe needs a stop action at the end of the movie. maybe it's looping. or trail the timeline a little?

don't confuse dramatic with good.

there are many sites out there that push the envelope of interactivity. balthaser has a dramatic opening sequence, but that can be done with other applications....

i recently read this article at this site;

http://www.spark-online.com/august00/media/romano.html

i hate to admit it but the guy is right. i was wondering what anyone thought of my this...

I heard that sometime soon Flash will be used for wireless platforms. If this is true can someone email me a site that talks about this.

I emailed John Tidwell yesterday. I guess the postings for the Flash meetings come once a month? I'm excited about all this. Where do the meetings take place?

There is a download on Macromedia's site that involves using XML files and HTML files that dynamically change the content in SWF files. They use this file with an .htc extension file. Its pretty cool...

Thanks Corvis
Just moved to downtown Los Angeles, I work in Culver City.
If you have any more information I would really appreciate the email.
Thanks

zplunk, i think your idea is great. i'm working for a flash company currently. as far as a name how about 'shocked studios'? or is that too close in reference to those macromedia people.

There are two ways to do this

1) Put a movie in the 'over' or 'down' keyframes. When a mouse rolls over a button it will start a movie if there is a movie within one or both of those keyframes.
...

Live Motion is going to have a hard time catching up to Flash 5 with features that support XML as well as a whole bunch of things like Freehand. I would go with Flash, there are several communities...