AA Studio
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I'm trying to find out if AAPro & AAStudio should be viewed as a complimentary
pairing and have a couple of questions.
– Will AAStudio be able to use Poco code?
– If not will existing Poco code be easily portable to a new scripting
language?
– Will there be a translator-like utility to convert existing Poco code?
Will we see a situation where Poco will be used in AAPro to create
graphic/anim. effects & the resultant flc is brought into AAStudio as a source
file for further enhancement as a multimedia project.
Will AAStudio incorporate any of the authoring technology that Adesk acquired
from Mediashare or is that to be a separate product?
How do you see AAStudio in comparison to a product like Macromedia's Director?
Thanks
Mike
-Yes, it's best to think of AAPro and AAStudio as complementary since they do
have unique features such as POCO.
-The POCO language will be used only in AAPro. There have been no annoucements
reagarding portability of the code.
-There is a scriptor module that will ship with AAStudio that will allows you
to do everything that the DOS based scripting language that AAPro used for
playing back FLICs, but now it's visual(yes!).
-You're right in assuming that you'll create the special effects in AAPro and
then go into AAStudio for 24-bit paint/animation and sound enhancement. That's
the natural progression while Windows 3.1 is still around.
Jeremy
I realize that you can't speak directly to this, but I'll try anyway <g>. Is
there likely to be any announcement about the future direction/development of
Poco or a successor?
It seems to me that the apparent lack of a programming language in Studio is a
pretty big hole to fill. Have you seen Ed Kellerman's particle system? This
kind of code can be invaluable. It would be a real shame to lose this work
through the lack of a Pgm. language. I hope that there is at least some method
for porting the Poco code over to a 'new' Poco in Studio.
Will there be some sort of plug-in system? Time-based filters for elapsed
effects?
Any importation of files from packages such as Powerpoint, Astound, etc?
Sorry! I can think of all kinds of questions, but I guess you may want to save
something for the release announcement <g>.
The visual scripting module sounds very nice.
How would you compare Studio and Macromedia's Director?
Thanks
Mike
P.S.
I never thought I'd be shilling for someone else for beta testing, but have you
asked Ed Kellerman (71532,3255).