MY Great Big CD Project

[Thomas McGrath III]

Well, I finished my instructive CD. I handed it over to the president 
and he has hired a Director company to put a 'fancy' front end on it. I 
don't really know how to take that.
The CD needed to present over 500 pre made slides in 14 chapters with 
over 20 pages and 75 links to different parts of the 500 slides and 
make it all make sense. The CD was not allowed to use Quicktime which 
made me do a lot of things the hard way. (But now the director guys are 
going to use flash and video).(Score one for Director) The CD needed to 
provide for a page to page type navigation AND to be able to jump 
around to specific points. The CD has 20 voiceovers on the front page 
of each chapter.

The presidents reaction was OK but he had some negatives as well. The 
director company actually turned down re-doing or re-creating some of 
the things I did in the CD due to time and difficulty.(Score one for me 
and REV) They said it would be too hard to try and do what I did and 
that they would be better served by putting a 'flash and dash' front 
end on my rev project.
NOW, if I was allowed to use quicktime I think things would have been 
different.
The director company thought the voiceovers were just fine.(Score one 
for me and REV)
They thought the navigation was fine. (Score one for me and REV)
The president did not like the navigation. (Take one away for me)

The CD is almost 500 Megabytes and works on 7 OS's. (I don't know how 
many it will still work on when they put the Flash in?)

SO, REV did a great Job and most liked it. The director guys knew how 
much work was in it and respected it even though they never heard of 
REV.

I believe that the lack of flashy tools for text and good text 
formating in REV held this CD back from being great. Multimedia was 
restricted by the client. But flash support would have overridden the 
problem of no quicktime.

I will consider this CD and the use of REV a success but I am hoping 
for a few enhancements to make multimedia work better with what people 
expect ie Flash and good text formatting.

Tom


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Thomas J McGrath III	• 2003 •	3mcgrath at adelphia.net
220 Drake Road, Bethel Park, PA 15102