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To: jim who wrote (636)	10/22/1999 11:47:00 AM
From: Eric Weiner	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 704

To all, Found this article on the Maccentral website: LiveStage Pro hits Golden Master, wins Director fans by Dennis Sellers, dsellers@maccentral.com October 22, 1999, 11:15 am ET LiveStage Professional is finally beginning to be taken seriously by the Director (Adobe Director, that is) development community, according to Randy McCalllum, CEO of Totally Hip, the company behind LiveStage. LiveStage Pro -- a QuickTime authoring tool -- hit Golden Master yesterday and it is off to the mastering facility . Although praise for the product has appeared on the DOUG (Director Online User Group) Web site, Totally Hip isn't trying to compete with Director and Flash, McCallum says. "LiveStage Pro compliments them as another solution in a multimedia developers tool arsenal to deal with QuickTime," he adds. A DOUG article written by Brennan Young (artist, composer, and multimedia programmer) says, "LiveStage is probably not an ideal tool for absolute beginners, but it is a multimedia pro's fantasy." Young also tells why wired sprites and interactivity is important to QuickTime. "I would even go so far as to say that it is an essential part of a modern multimedia web designer's arsenal. You simply can't do QuickTime justice without it. The ability to breathe the kind of fluid interactivity we have come to expect from Shockwave into QuickTime movies is surely too good an opportunity to pass over. It is also fully AppleScriptable, so running on a Mac Web server and with appropriate CGI, you can generate QuickTime movies on the fly for visitors to your website for a tiny fraction of the cost of Macromedia's Generator." writes Young. You can check out the entire article at directoronline.com. LiveStage Professional will be available at a list price of US $699.95 and LiveStage Standard Edition is priced at $299.95. Both will include WebPainter 3, Web animation software, and an upgrade to QuickTime 4 Pro. Registered users of LiveStage 1.0 Standard Edition prior to the release of LiveStage Professional will get a discounted upgrade price of $199.95. For more details, see our story at maccentral.com or cruise on over to totallyhip.com.