Macromedia Director 8.5 Introduction

The Director Environment
Director Environment Elements
Playing a Movie
Setting up the Authoring Environment


Creating Linear Movies
Creating a New Movie
Creating a Cast
Creating the Movie


Creating Interactive Movies
Storyboarding
Choosing Movie Properties
Media Types
Creating Casts
Working with Sprites


Controlling Playback
Tempo
Transitions
Markers
Scripts, Behaviours, and the Behaviour Library
Looping and Synchronising Music


Animating Sprites
Types of Animation
Flash Animations
Video Cast Members
Tweening
Multiple Cast Members in One Sprite


Outputting Movies
Create Shockwave Movies
Creating Projectors


Additional Topics
Other topics of interest will be covered when you are comfortable with the core elements of the course, where time allows.

 

 

 

Course Overview:

As a new user, with little or no experience of MacroMedia Director or other multimedia authoring tools, this course shows delegates how to use Director to produce multimedia presentations with interactivity, text, sound, images, animation and scripting.

 

Course Duration:

1 Day

 

Course Pre-requisites:

No experience required other than basic operating system experience.

 

At the end of this course
you will be able to:
  • Create a Movie by importing text and graphics, arranging sprites and setting playback options
  • Create interactive movies by storyboarding, setting movie properties, creating customs Casts and working with raster and vector images.
  • Create animation with tweening, multiple images and film loops
  • Distribute presentations and standalone applications on interactive CD-ROMS and create Shockwave files for view on the internet.

Price Band:

 Specialised