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Flash and Max/MSP/Jitter

December 31, 2004
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    So… help them fix it! ;)

    Happy New Year, Bren!

    Phil Sherry / 01/01/2005

    Nice idea to run Flash as QuickTime inside Max! - I already thought about making something like a Flashplayer external for Max to run swf directly inside Max. But as time is money I just didn’t get around to do that… ;-)

    Anyway, thanks for the positive feedback about flashserver!

    Olaf

    Olaf / 07/01/2005

    I found this fantastic Flash server object for Max MSP that allows you to communicate between Flash and MAX. This has a lot of potential - transferring real-time audio spectrum data to Flash or video motion tracking into Flash to name but a few.

    But of course you would be running two seperate applications - a Flash one and a Max one. But then I thought - hang on - what about using a swf posing as a QuickTime mov inside Max? It would effectively be communicating with itself inside the same movie. QuickTime 6 supports Flash 5 actionscript so all should be good to go.

    Or so I thought.

    While indeed the actionscript does work inside QuickTime inside Max, XML sockets, the vital bit of communication between Flash and Max DOES NOT WORK IN QUICKTIME 6! It’s a bug. Apple know about it but it aint fixed. Maybe it’ll get fixed sometime soon. Maybe it won’t. Until then there’s still a lot of cool stuff that could be done with Flash and Max talking to one another.

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