Client wants the fla
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- ItTango0
There no stock answer. Run of the mill stuff that anyone familiar with Flash can do? Give it up, more trouble than it's worth, IMO.
On the other hand, Flash is one of those "million ways to skin a cat" applications that allow you to come up with all sorts of ways to do your thing. If you've coded something really unique for your client, then giving that up would cause concern.
The real question is: Why aren't they using you to make the updates?
- jetSkii0
Flash is dead anyhows. Let them have the corpse
- intVal0
Charge extra for giving him the .fla
- utopian0
At this point, just give him the Source Files... I am fairly certain that the .FLA's are out of date and are probably Flash 5 to 7.
- shamerokka0
Cool thanks for your advice all. Steve, this is one of my other accounts you tool.
- shamerokka0
PS, I'm giving him the files, explaining the situation letting him know i'd be available to do updates for this or future updates. done.
- harlequino0
Well at least you're asking for a reach around.
- eating_tv0
My approach would be honoust and simple. "Well that's possible but you did not buy the working files back then so I'll have to calculate a price for you." or something along those lines. Remain positive and never close doors, just attach a price card if the question asked is something you think is worth it. Doing work for free - especially giving away your source files - never pays the bills, does it?
- vaxorcist0
Note that if you do give them this FLA, you may soon have a million phone calls about "how exactly do I change this or that" or "why did you do it this way rather than that way" or "my son in law who's an expert flash developer can't figure out how you did x"
- moldero0
what you should have done is told him from the start the .fla files (if he ever wanted them) will cost extra.
- scarabin0
my approach would be to just give him the files, but mention that he's getting them for free because you failed to have a contract clause for it and next time there will be a charge for them. this way he'll leave knowing he got hooked up and will still like you.
then change your contract so this never happens again.
from his perspective if you try to charge him for it you're just gonna look like a dick who's trying to find ways to squeeze more money out of him. get all self-righteous about not sharing your tools or whatever and you'll look even worse.
- cola20110
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- jadrian_uk0
Don'make sites in Flash, problem solved.
- honest0
Do you have design buy-out clause in your terms and conditions/project contract?
Usually these files are IP protected and owned by the creator.
I take it the project was to produce an end result/element and not to create a template/facility to allow your client to mass produce further without your involvement?
- registe0
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