300 000 copies! help!
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- Seph
I just found out my CDrom is definately going to be published free with a national weekly newspaper.
I am now in a major panic about license issues; Quicktime standalone installer, using Macromedia Director 8.5, and flash within. Ive looked on both websites respectivley about publication rights and it doesnt look like I have to pay any money but I know for sure I should be doing something, and its all so bloody confusing on the site, sending off double copies of stuff to exotic addresses in the USA. Featuring their logo on the product etc etc. Do Adobe and macromedia have to approve the product before its published? I have to fix a name for the product that I am not allowed to change, I dont understand any of it, am I signing away my life?
Has anyone else had a major publication? Can they advise me as to the main things I should be panicing about?
Also there's the old biscuit about will it actually work? there is some pretty hairy code and I am scared its all going to go tits up. Any testing advice for publications of this scale?
Thanks PVAN, help me !
- pascii0
i would, if you haven't already, write and call to apple, macromedia and adobe. sponsoring is a good thing when you place their logos on the cdr. and it's highly recommended using legal sw-copies. then let your project test on many average mac + pc computers so you can fix problems (like it was with director 6.5...man o man). if your code is clean and 'standard' there won't be much problems. whatr i know for sure ist that there must be a macromedia-logo be shown when u quit the projector.
- zaven0
Well, dont know anything about it....
but congratulation Seph!!!
sounds really nice!
Good Job, which is the lucky newspaper???
- shutdown0
is it downloadable to us here? we can test that actual system for you i'm sure
- unknown0
you dont need licences for 'plug in software' like quicktime, flash et al.
best practice is to do a quicktime detect on the 1st frame of your movie, and if they dont have it install a slightly older version of quicktime. I use 5.
they can ask to see your director license, as has happened to me.
sounds like a cool job, I done a few similar things to that, and you can test it and test it and spell check it, but guaranteed ther will be an error somewhere.
and good luck
- Seph0
Thanks fellas !
Kingkezza, why would you want to use an older Version of QT? what are the benefits ? I am giving users the option of testing their system for a version of quicktime and then advising them depending on their current version. I find the quicktime() lingo function can be really slow on some systems and didnt want the user to have to wait up to 30 seconds in some cases everytime they inserted the CDrom. So I gave them the option of skipping the test. And I definately didnt want to start getting into Reg keys.
Did Macromedia really ask you to show a valid license?...gulp ! Was this because they saw that you had produced a major publication?
Did you need to send anything off? Can macromedia and quicktime be nasty about this kind of thing? Or do they generally give you strong advice before sueing your arse?
- Seph0
pascii what are
"legal sw-copies"?thanks, sounds like USA lingo !
- Seph0
shutdown - thanks for the offer but impossible, its 400 MB ! even a shockwave version would take you a few hours to download.
- shutdown0
if you want it testing i am willing to d/l it for ya
got a 4mb connection here and adsl at home so i can leave it running on a download
leave it with you but the offer stands
- Seph0
tnx shutdown. will keep you posted.
- unknown0
the reason I put an older version of plugins as the install, is because the systems your users might be looking at it on could be like OS 8 or win 95.
building CD roms is the artform of the lowest common denominator.
- pascii0
aw, legal software licences. legal is the word ; )
- pascii0
i am willing to download too! can test it on my actual os x!
- unknown0
macromedia came to our company at the time, and tested the lot. I would get a legal version, to author your work. just not worth the risk
- pascii0
could seriously hurt... man, but sw is way too expensive and buggy these days...
- MX_OnD0
If you distribute either the shockwave player or the flash player ie. have then installers on your CD then you need to license them from Macromedia - it's free but it is advisabl to do, safeguards yourself from nonsense later on.
Regarding valid licenses it's best to have them too of course, which in the case of Director involves having one for Mac ond one for PC (it's only possible to create PC projectors from a PC Director version and Mac from a Mac version....) although what you could also do (don't quote me on this or I'll lose my job!!) is find someone (here probably) who has a license for the other version and get them to create the projector file for you.....as long as it's been done in legal licensed copies you can always say that they did it as a service to you.....
bingo! Surely Doctor.......
Oh and btw - Congrats!
OnD
- pascii0
congrats too! when i first saw this topic, i saw a poor guy who has to do 300 000 copys on a fotocopier today!
thanks god it's not ; )