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Director MX 2004
Macromedia Director is the leading multimedia authoring program for creating interactive media for CD-ROM, information kiosks, presentations, interactive television and the Web. Director lets you combine graphics, sound, video, Flash and many other media types (including interactive 3D graphics) in any sequence.
- Basic Director skills
- Building interactive content
- Combining multiple media types
- Building rich multimedia content
- using advanced Director functions
- Authoring for multiple media
- Introduction to Lingo
- Multimedia Authoring
- Introduction
- Mini assignment 1
- Concepts, principles, and limitations of multimedia authoring
- Techniques
- And applications
- Capabilities of multimedia authoring software
- Mini assignment 2
- Director Environment
- Introduction
- Director environment elements
- The 3D environment in Director
- Creating Linear Movies
- Setting up the authoring environment
- Customising the workspace
- Text and fields
- Working with cast members
- Creating the movie
- Preparing Interactive Movie
- Introduction to Director tools and features
- Storyboarding and choosing movie properties
- Mini assignment 3
- Media types
- Mini assignment 4
- Creating an external cast and using colour palettes
- Working with spires
- Review 1
- Controlling Playback
- Tempo, transitions, and markers
- Mini assignment 5
- Mini assignment 6
- Scripts, behaviours, and the behaviour library
- Looping and synchronising music
- Mini assignment 7
- Animating Sprites
- Flash integration - Part I
- Flash integration - Part II
- Mini assignment 8
- Working with a video cast member
- Mini assignment 9
- Tweening in the score and on stage
- Multiple cast members in one sprite
- Mini assignment 10
- Animating objects along a path
- Outputting Movies
- Creating Shockwaves movies and projectors
- The Shockwave player
- Mini assignment 11
- Mini assignment 12
- Mini assignment 13
- Review 2
- Inter Intro
- Introduction
- Planning and Setting Up a Movie
- Importing from PowerPoint
- Importing W3D Media
- Optimising Images
- Mini assignment 14
- The 3D World
- Orientation to 3D
- Working with 3D cast members and sprites
- Mini assignment 15
- Mini assignment 16
- Adding Navigation
- Removing tempo channel playback control
- Importing button graphics
- Mini assignment 17
- Transparency in 32-bit images
- Aligning navigation buttons
- Simple and interdependent behaviours
- Flash components
- Review 3
- Scripting Languages
- Mechanics of Lingo
- Mini assignment 18
- Keyword types and vocabulary of Lingo
- Flash integration
- Javascript Syntax
- Real World Lingo
- Planning Lingo and Scripting
- Navigation scripts
- Mini assignment 19
- Preparing for Distribution
- Publishing 3D Content
- The Shockwave Player and 3D
- Embedding Fonts
- Creating a Stub Projector and Protecting Movies
- Introduction to DVD Features
- Mini Assignment 20
- Review 4
