Why Use Macromedia Flash Assets in Director?
Director is a full-featured multimedia authoring tool giving it some distinct advantages over Macromedia Flash when developing certain types of multimedia applications, especially those that require rich media integration (such as QuickTime, AVI, native 3D, bitmap/bitmap composition) as well as projects requiring local or network file or system access. I use both Macromedia Flash and Director extensively, both separately and together. Each tool has its own set of distinct advantages and disadvantages. When used together, Macromedia Flash and Director can produce astounding productions that could not be achieved easily using either of these applications individually. One of the cool new features that Macromedia Flash MX introduced is the LocalConnection object that enables multiple Macromedia Flash movies running on the same computer to communicate with each other. Director MX incorporates the same technology through its updated Macromedia Flash Asset Xtra. This opens a wide variety of
