Director 11 or MX 2004?

I am having a bunch of problems with Director 11.
Should I just go back to MX 2004 - the changes don't seem to
make too much of a difference to me.
And where can I find a full list of changes?
Thanks.

> If you don't need to natively support Intel Macs under
Shockwave...
Are you sure that the new version is required for that?
From what I've checked, even when publishing with dir04, the
browsers seem
to be using the new engine for playback, if the new sw
version is installed.
Haven't checked this with OSX, since when developing, I'm
usually in front
of a w2k-like theme XP machine.
But, I can't remember having any issues with shockwave
content on intelMac -
well, except with havok movies.. Then again, didn't spend too
much time on
osx testing or even browsing, lately.
Btw, if the new engine is used automatically, existing
non-english content
that expect to get extended ascii codes when using the
chartonum() function
will have serious issues.
"Sean Wilson" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:g3uht0$ip$[email protected]..
>> I am having a bunch of problems with Director 11.
>> Should I just go back to MX 2004 - the changes don't
seem to make too
>> much of a difference to me.
>
> If you don't need to natively support Intel Macs under
Shockwave there are
> *no* compelling reasons to upgrade (and far too many to
not)
>
>> And where can I find a full list of changes?
>
> You can't, because Adobe didn't bother to provide one,
and no amount of
> badgering seems able to induce them to. There is a list
of "fixes"
> provided at
> <
http://blogs.adobe.com/shockwaves/2008/04/director_11_released.html>
but
> since some of the fixes relate to new features it can't
be taken seriously
> (while implementing such-and-such they introduced a bug
which they
> subsequently fixed - that doesn't rate as a bug fix to
my mind, rather
> it's what I'd call "programming")

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Thanks for the reply. No, everything looks fine with all
other applications. I took another look at it and here's the
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On the Mac - exporting to "Quicktime Video" produces a true
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RayOrr wrote:
> Susan,
>
> You did not state if you are experiencing any problems
creating the MOV, or
> what version of Flash authoring application you are
using. But, in Flash 8 the
> instructions state that only Flash Player 4 and its
features are supported by
> QT 5.
>
> Unfortunately, QT 5 is still the last version that
supports Flash player files
> by default and then it only supports Flash Player 4!
Later versions of QT can
> be configured to play Flash content, but it still only
supports Flash 4
> content. You can go to Edit/Preferences/Quick Time
Preferences/Advanced Tab
> and check the Media Types box.
>
> It is my understanding that the MOV file created
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the embedded Flash
> tracks. Therefore, all interactivity is retained
(buttons, .,inks etc). I
> don't think the flash content is repurposed and
converted into Quick Time
> format. Hence, until QT is updated to support later
versions of Flash content
> you cannot directly convert from Flash 6 or 7 stuff into
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>
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>

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> where the new W3D plugin?
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Director 9.0 (MX 2004) running on Win 2000 Pro.
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Aquilonian wrote:
> Javascript is out since 2004, why there is not a
Javascript forum here, just Lingo?
> And what this multiuser server forum is doing
here?Multiser server dont even came with Director anymore, isnt it?
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still in version 1 as there hasn't been a Director update
since that 2004 version. At this point, the Lingo forum
covers all programming (so includes JS). So, don't think
we'll see a Javascript forum any time soon, definitely not
before we get a new Director (scheduled for the latter
part of this year).
The Multiuser forum is more of a legacy forum at the moment.
It does not get much traffic. Again, will have to see
what Adobe does on this side of things with the next Director
which may help define how they'll structure the forums
in the future.
regards
Dean
Director Lecturer / Consultant / Director Enthusiast
http://www.fbe.unsw.edu.au/learning/director
http://www.multimediacreative.com.au
email: [email protected]

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hello;
I am very excited about director 11 - but I am currently
using ( happily ) D10; I am about to get a new pc with vista - will
director 10 MX 2004 work on a vista?
thanks
dsdsdsdsd

I have a simple presentation with a quicktime loop at the
beginning. It
crashes after about 2 hours if I leave looping. I would be
reluctant to use
it on a kiosk, and cross my fingers if I have to use that
laptop for a
presentation. It seems to be a combination of h264, Vista and
video card on
the particular laptop. But I haven't had time to try
installing xp on the
same laptop to figure out for sure which one to blame.
Timm
"dsdsdsdsd" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
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> hello;
>
> I am very excited about director 11 - but I am currently
using ( happily )
> D10; I am about to get a new pc with vista - will
director 10 MX 2004 work
> on a vista?
>
> thanks
> dsdsdsdsd

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