testing the waters

[Bradley Borch]

Brrr from Maine...

I'm new to rev but not to multimedia, been doing it since it was 
videodiscs, using Tencore, Quest, etc. Been using Director for about 
six years (too long) now, got burned by investing time & energy in 
Oracle Media Objects. I'd appreciate any thoughts or help in getting 
going (I took a HyperCard class in '88 -- eons ago in digital media 
time).

1) Can rev serve as a replacement for Director?

2) (related to 1) My most recent Dir CD had a lot of Flash animation, 
and I never used the Dir timeline for animation at all, just "go the 
frame" stuff. Can I take the same approach in rev using Flash export to 
swf 5 (the latest that QT 6 supports) and still have some control 
within the flash animation? I did a test and got mixed results. Any 
user experiences using rev as a multimedia player with Flash embedded 
as QT would be most helpful.

3) How does Rev compare to iShell? I tried iShell but it felt really 
constraining. I know they're different animals, any specific 
observations would be great.

TIA for your input.

Brad Borch