Experience with stand-alone flash projects

[southplatte]

Does anyone have much experience in designing stand-alone Flash projects, such as one to go on a cd-rom?

I am working on about the third or fourth one now in the past year, and was just curious if developers familiar with Flash ever focus on just this area instead of always incorporating it into a web site.

My latest project is a stand-alone cd-rom app for a college promotion for prospective students. I have also created a movie for broadcast using digital video and photos incorporated into Flash.

I can't make a web site in Flash for anything though.

Just curious if maybe I missed something or if this is a good market to try and target with Flash, and if there were concerns in using Flash this way.

[voodooboy]

CD-ROM business promotion is an excellent forum for Flash; especially when you want to incorporate video. With CD-ROM your limited to 700MB; where as on the web if your main movie is more than 250-600kb you are pretty much sunk because it would take way to long to load.

You are in the prefect market for Flash, Director, and Authorware.

Good going, and best of luck.

[macandmurray]

[quote="southplatte"]Does anyone have much experience in designing stand-alone Flash projects, such as one to go on a cd-rom?

I am working on about the third or fourth one now in the past year, and was just curious if developers familiar with Flash ever focus on just this area instead of always incorporating it into a web site.

My latest project is a stand-alone cd-rom app for a college promotion for prospective students. I have also created a movie for broadcast using digital video and photos incorporated into Flash.

Good Day
We have been turning our Flash web sites into Flash Projector CDs for quite some time with great success, but we are new to DVD production and was wondering if you can take a Flash Projector and turn it into a DVD playable on computer or home DVD?

[southplatte]

[quote=southplatte]We have been turning our Flash web sites into Flash Projector CDs for quite some time with great success, but we are new to DVD production and was wondering if you can take a Flash Projector and turn it into a DVD playable on computer or home DVD?

I have not done this, I have only exported from Flash as an avi, and then ran a conversion to mpeg video to put it on DVD. I would be curious as I was thinking Flash would make an awesome tool to create DVD menus with, as well as DVDs themselves.

[macandmurray]

I have not done this, I have only exported from Flash as an avi, and then ran a conversion to mpeg video to put it on DVD. I would be curious as I was thinking Flash would make an awesome tool to create DVD menus with, as well as DVDs themselves.

Thanks Billy for your response. We feel the same, but we are such newbies to DVD production that we are flying blind at this point until we get a little farther down the learning curve.

[cinth]

Most of my flash work is on product CDs. A little flash opener then html pages for easy navigation to pdf files. It works great!
We are wanting to incorporate video into some of our cds. Not sure if the route will be to drop video into flash then burn cds or try to burn on dvd. I'm interested in more discussion on this topic if anyone else has any experience with this! I'm VERY new to video and will be attempting to learn Pinnacle software.

[macandmurray]

We have been doing whole Flash presentations with videos embedded for the internet...see

www.alaskatravelmagazine.com

On the web to get search engine position we intermix with html pages as the sitemap etc. Then for computer CD production we re-optimize, remove the HTML pages and replace with swf, re-link and then make a stand alone Flash Projector. This has been working great for us. We were hoping to be able to do something similar to DVD.

[FlashJester Support Team]

Our clients use it all the time with our applicatio called Jugglor.

It allows you to customie the Flash Projector file, i.e remove the menu, right clicks, change the icon, make it borderless etc.

Download a FREE evaluation copy and see if it can help you

http://www.jugglor.com

Hope this helps.

[muhrijn]

I have never really tried to do this because my clients simply wouldn't let me (i always do online designs). But now I was thinking I'd like to make a digiflyer for people who would like to know more about my businness. You have these mini cd-rom's that could perfectly be used as a business card, which has flash on it so that can be really cool.

My question in relation to this topic is, how do you get the flash movie to launch when you insert your disk? Do you just save it as .exe?

Thanks

[FlashJester Support Team]

Say your Flash projector is called 'project.exe', you would create a plain text file called 'autorun.inf' containing the following:

[autorun]
open=project.exe

You can do this in Notepad.

Then you write this file to the CD on the same level as the .exe file.

It can be bypassed by the user if they hold down the shift key after inserting the CD.

This is for Windows. If you want to do the same for Macs, you'll need to look at the documentation that comes with Toast.