Overview
Macromedia Director is the authoring software of choice for multimedia professionals of all types. Designed around the metaphor of a movie production, with its scenes, scripts, scores, and casts, Director lets users merge and orchestrate text, graphics, animation, video, sound effects, and music into business presentations, entertainment and education CD-ROMs, interactive information kiosks, Shockwave movies for the Web, and other full-featured interactive productions. Director X for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide teaches all of Director's core features, showing readers how to arrange multimedia presentations, animate text and graphics, and add full interactivity to custom software. This cross-platform edition has been thoroughly updated for Director X, covering all new basic techniques for creating animation, tools and special effects in the Paint window, cast member types, score channels, techniques for arranging frames and cells in the score, scene transitions, changes to how Director processes color, and upgrades in sound processing.
- The most accessible book for learning Director: use it to learn Director, or as a quick reference guide
- First cross-platform edition. Previous editions have sold more than 50,000 copies.