Macromedia Director Essentials

Overview & Objectives:
Director is the worlds best-selling authoring program, for creating professional multimedia. With Director you can easily create interactive media for the World Wide Web, CD-ROM, information kiosks, and interactive TV. Director¡¯s easy to use interface lets you combine graphics, sound, video and other media in any sequence and then add interactive features with Lingo, the program¡¯s powerful scripting language.

Course Duration:
18 Hours (Part-time or Fulltime available)

Who should attend:
Director Fundamentals is aimed at those who want to create engaging, rich media corporate presentations, e-merchandising applications and entertainment.

Course modules:
Chapter 1 Introduction to Director and a tour of its interface
Chapter 2 Creating a new movie
Chapter 3 Importing graphics and using the text window to create new cast members
Chapter 4 Managing the stage, sequencing sprites in the score and playing the movie
Chapter 5 Animation using keyframes
Chapter 6 How to align sprites
Chapter 7 The context sensitive Property Inspector
Chapter 8 Reversing animations
Chapter 9 Working with transitions, sound and video
Chapter 10 Ink effects
Chapter 11 Adding interactivity using Lingo and markers
Chapter 12 Creating a Projector for self-running presentations
Chapter 13 Animation using real-time recording
Chapter 14 Further animation layering sprites, exchanging cast members and adding music
Chapter 15 Film loops, buttons and behaviours
Chapter 16 Using built-in behaviours
Chapter 17 Creating custom cursors and simple buttons
Chapter 18 Creating transparency
Chapter 19 Using alpha channels and creating masks
Chapter 20 Adding markers to the score for navigation
Chapter 21 Managing text and fonts
Chapter 22 Creating and playing Shockwave movies for delivery over the Internet
Chapter 23 Director 3D Basics 3D text Making and moving models
Chapter 24 Improving 3D scenes

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