I have heard it said that Director has 80% of the authoring
market. Is this accurate?
Mat
I have heard it said that Director has 80% of the authoring
market. Is this accurate?
Mat
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> I have heard it said that Director has 80% of the authoring
> market. Is this accurate?
> Mat
-David
> I'm trying to justify why we should write a Director plug in. So I need some
> numbers saying how popular it is
> Mathew
-David
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Subject: How popular is Director?
MA>I have heard it said that Director has 80% of the authoring
MA>market. Is this accurate?
And how does one calculate figures like that.
I started with Director, but soon found it was the wrong product for my
work - returned it. It does an excellent job on linear/Flowline/Moviestyle
work, but when you require "Hotwords", branching or something a bit
complex then you are in trouble - it is easy to get lost.
For Educational or Training type of Multimedia it very poor. The best for
this is ICONAUTHOR or TOOLBOOK. - try these out.
For instance, TOOLBOOK is created by Asymetrix (owned by Paul Allen, Bill
Gates's offsider). This program was used to create ENCARTA.
I use TOOLBOOK now. Absolutely brilliant for my type of work.
So it depends entirely on what you are doing.
cheers
Dennis
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>MA>I have heard it said that Director has 80% of the authoring
>MA>market. Is this accurate?
>And how does one calculate figures like that.
>I started with Director, but soon found it was the wrong product for my
>work - returned it. It does an excellent job on linear/Flowline/Moviestyle
>work, but when you require "Hotwords", branching or something a bit
>complex then you are in trouble - it is easy to get lost.
>For Educational or Training type of Multimedia it very poor. The best for
>this is ICONAUTHOR or TOOLBOOK. - try these out.
>For instance, TOOLBOOK is created by Asymetrix (owned by Paul Allen, Bill
>Gates's offsider). This program was used to create ENCARTA.
>I use TOOLBOOK now. Absolutely brilliant for my type of work.
>So it depends entirely on what you are doing.
With the contract I'm on now, I'm forced to use CBT Express (only
becuase the lead dev. loves CBT Express).
Also, Astound is a cheaper replacement for Director for
presentations/kiosks.
Good question. It depends, I suppose, on what you consider "authoring" toQuote:> I have heard it said that Director has 80% of the authoring
> market. Is this accurate?
IMO many of the posts to comp.mult are references to Director, and
alt.mult.dir is a small -- but definitely growing -- NG relating to
Director specifically. (By "many", above, I mean, perhaps, 20% of the
posts are Director specific in the comp.mult NG, which ain't too shabby,
considering the balance seems to be questions re hardware configs for
soundcards, MIDI, CD-ROM and of course random SPAM about the superiority
of one system over another. Also some very deeeeeeeep questions about
lowlevel issues, far beyond my ken... Not to mention Authorware, which is
also a Macromedia product. Overall, Director seems to be considerably
more in use than it was just two years ago. That doesn't help, does it?)
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