Flash Basic 8 & FACE 2007
After some 4 years.. I played my hands in Flash again… Yeeehaaaww ! There are some software I always love sooo much, they are Photoshop, Truespace, Flash and Premiere !
Today was FACE 2007, an event full of fun programs. And I was offered to do the title part. The time was short so I started yday evening with preparing the sound track. Used the trustworthy Audacity to cut bits and pieces of various tracks and composed a 34 second audio clip. But it took nearly 3 hours to listen to various tracks from my collection and pickup the bits.
Then today morning onwards, I was preparing photos and video clips… and finally started composing the title sequence in FLASH Basic 8. Took nerly 4 hours to compose a 34 second run-length title sequence. The fact it took 4 hours is because, I forgot almost everything in flash. 4 years (again the number 4) is such a long gap and I have not touched flash in the meantime. Anyway, applying my best effort and fast learning curve, I managed to complete the title sequence with a modified script (due to delivery constraint). Finally it was 4.35 when I finished and luckily the event which is supposed to start at 4.15, was getting delayed by various other reasons.
After uploading the FLASH projector file to the event laptop, I felt a relaxing breath.. and only then I remembered I didnt eat lunch. 
hehehe.
Well the event started, my title sequence was executed.. and wow cool, the presentation looked better at the auditorium’s big display. Suddenly when the title was half-way through, the power was cut and the whole thing paused. I never felt soo upset.
I am not sure if my title sequence was good or bad. But it is the presentation problem, that spoiled the whole mood. 
Slowly I got myself cheered up and enjoyed the show later.
- Rajesh Sundaram