Macromedia Director 8

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Macromedia Director 8

• Intermediate Level Course

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Ink Masks

• Using the Ink Mask feature will allow you to
  create parts of a bitmap cast member to become
  clear (Transparent) which will allow you to see
  through it to other Cast Members.

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Onion Skins

• Onion Skins allows you to view one or more cast
  members as a reference while you are in a new
  cast member.

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Tweening

• Tweening is applied between two keyframes that
  hold before and after states of a sprite
  property.

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Path of a Sprite

• Director displays sprite paths that are lines on
  the Stage to show the movement of a sprite.
  Sprite Overlay Settings dialog box control the
  Sprite paths.

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Recording

• Animation can be created by recording the
  movement of a sprite by simply dragging it across
  the Stage.

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Animated Sequences

• Animated Sequences are related to a series of
  cast members that alternate between each other on
  the stage.

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Flash Movies

• Flash is a vector-based animation development
  tool that produces compact animations suited for
  use in shockwave movies.

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Importing Digital Video

• To control the media in a digital video Use cast
  member properties, to specify how it will be
  framed or if it will play direct-to-Stage, as
  well as set other important options.

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Digital Video Properties

• The Property Inspector window is where you will
  find the Digital Video Properties. The Digital
  Video Properties can be set to influence various
  aspects of appearance and playback performance.

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Editing Video

• Reorder a sequence require complex video editing
  tasks of a specialized program, within Director
  you can perform very simple tasks.

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Animated GIF

• You can import and integrate an animated GIF into
  a Director movie just like a digital video clip.
  Director supports the GIF89a and GIF87 formats.

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Importing Sounds

• Importing a sound, it becomes a cast member. For
  the sound cast member to play in your movie it
  has to be placed in the scores sound channels

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Sounds in the Score

• Placing Sounds in the Score is same way that you
  control sprites. Sounds are placed in either of
  the two sound channels within the Score.

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Sound to Actions

• You can more or less match sound with scenes by
  inserting sound to concur with the action. This
  can be done by using only the sound channels.
  For short internal sounds it works great.

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Compressing Sounds

• To Compress all internal sound cast members, you
  can use Shockwave Audio (SWA). You can also link
  to external compressed Shockwave Audio files.

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Create external Shockwave Audio files
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Set Linked Sound to Stream

• The shorter the preload time, the less bulk you
  add to the initial download file. The longer the
  preload time, the longer the sound can play
  continuously while the rest of the movie loads.

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Control Panel

• Using the Control Panel will allow you to rewind
  and play, or step forward and step backward to
  adjust volume and set loop playback through the
  frames of your movie.

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Movie Tempo

• The Movie Tempo is calculated in frames per
  second (fps). Your movie is played as a default
  at a particular tempo, or speed, which can be
  adjusted.

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Target Tempo Vs. Actual Tempo

• The target tempo is the setting that you place in
  the tempo channel, which can function as a
  maximum tempo.

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Locking Playback Speed

• You can lock that speed if you are determined to
  have the proper tempo for your movie, so that
  its being used by whatever computer your movie
  happens to be shown on.

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Pauses in a Movie

• When Setting pauses in a movie you can create a
  pause using the tempo channel. A movie can be
  paused for a specified number of seconds.

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Transitions within Scenes

• Transitions allow you to move smoothly from one
  scene of the movie to another. Without
  transitions, scenes cut suddenly from one to
  another, creating a jerking effect.

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Using Shockwave

• Does youre web site look too dull? Does it look
  like everyone elses? Just include a shockwave
  movie. That will surely put some life into your
  site and youll definitely get positive feedback
  on it.

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Publish Settings (Default)

• The Publish Settings dialog box incorporates the
  following tabs,
• Formats
• General
• Shockwave
• Compression
• Shockwave Save
• Image

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Playing a Shockwave Movie

• Use the Publish command to create a Shockwave
  movie that can play in a Web page. Your original
  movie is left in DIR format. Shockwave can also
  be created as a movie in the DCR format.

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Generate a Shockwave movie

• When previewing your Shockwave movie and you are
  using any linked media or external casts the
  files have to be contained in the dswmedia folder
  inside the Shockwave Player folder, along with
  the .DCR and HTML files

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Organize files for Web delivery

• Situate all your Shockwave movie file, HTML
  document, any Shocked external casts, and linked
  media in to the same folder.