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Director MX & Lingo

Course Overview:

Director is a multimedia application that combines graphics, sound, animation, text and video to create streaming, multi-user, interactive web content that is easy to deploy for CD-, DVD-ROM and the web. This intensive 3 day course introduces you to the major features of Director and guides you step-by-step through the development of several real-world projects.

Course Prerequisites:
Delegates should meet the following prerequisites:

• Be comfortable working in a Windows environment
• Have experience using the World Wide Web

Course Content:
Director Basics

• The Director Environment
• Using the Help system
• Creating a new movie
• Importing an image
• Adding sprites to the stage
• Creating text cast members
• Changing the colour of cast members
• Adding sprites to the Score
• Making changes to multiple Sprites
• Sequencing Sprites
• Playing a movie

Animated Bullet Lists

• Adding text cast members
• Using the paint window
• Placing sprites in the score
• Positioning sprites on the stage
• Aligning sprites with the align panel
• Naming cast members
• Animating text using keyframes
• Repeating the Animation process
• Aligning sprites using the sprite inspector

Reversing Animations

• Setting the stage colour and movie tempo
• Importing media elements into the cast
• Using ink effects on the background image
• Animating a graphic image
• Reversing animations

Transitions, Sounds, and Video

• Setting registration points
• Exchanging cast members
• Using a screen transition
• Adding sounds to the score
• Adding digital video

Adding Interactivity

• Building a menu screen
• Writing a Lingo script
• Creating a destination screen
• Adding markers for navigation
• Creating navigation scripts
• Creating a projector

More Animation Techniques

• Setting Movie Properties
• Setting Keyframes
• Creating a circular path animation
• Animating with Real-Time recording

Keyframe and Layers

• Creating a custom stage
• Importing the media
• Setting the Movie Tempo
• Placing the Graphics on the stage
• Copying Sprites to a new location
• Creating the animation with keyframes
• Playing selected frames only
• Finishing the basic animation
• Layering the sprites
• Exchanging cast members
• Adding background music

Film Loops and Buttons

• Exchanging cast members
• Creating a film loop
• Creating keyframes with a film loop
• Layering the sprites
• Reversing an animation
• Creating buttons
• Adding interactivity with the behaviour inspector
• Adding a second button
• Creating a behaviour to pause a movie

Built-in Behaviours

• Placing the graphics
• Adding behaviours
• Using the behaviour inspector
• Modifying behaviours

Custom Cursors and Buttons

• Changing a cursor
• Sprite bounding areas
• Changing the sprite
• Making a new and animating cursor
• Applying for the cursor
• Modifying the frame rate

Alpha Channels and Masks

• Defining the Alpha channel
• Creating the basic animation
• Applying different inks
• Creating an Alpha mask
• Layering the mask

Sprite Properties and Palettes

• Importing media elements
• Setting a movie’s stage size, background colour and default palette
• Setting cast and sprite preferences
• Organising the cast
• Setting the location of a sprite
• Snapping to the Grid
• Creating a behaviour for navigational elements
• Reducing the file size of a bitmap
• Finding an index colour number
• Modifying sprite properties
• Adding a background sound

Markers and Navigation

• Inserting markers
• Building a destination screen
• Exchanging cast members
• Navigating to a marker
• Looping on a frame
• Using relative markers
• Simplifying scripts using relative markers

Colour cycling and blends

• Adding a marker for the closing sequence
• Changing the background transparent colour
• Animating with colour cycling
• Tweening a blend of sprites
• Setting a gradient
• Cycling gradient colours

Shockwave for Director

• Obtaining shockwave plug-ins and the browser software
• Creating and playing a shockwave movie
• Preparing a movie for streaming
• shockwave randomness, direction, etc.

Learning Lingo

• Choosing between a Script and a Behaviour
• Creating a simple Lingo script
• Testing a script
• Using the message window
• Examining Lingo elements
• Examining types of Lingo scripts
• Creating different types of scripts

Handlers and Events

• What Events are
• Watching Events
• Logging Events
• Handlers and handler hierarchy
• Parameters and return values

Navigating with Lingo

• Setting up for this lesson
• Checking movie properties and filling in the score
• Using Lingo to wait at the main Menu
• Using Markers to label frames
• Branching to a marker
• Adding a back button
• Branching to another movie
• Implementing a quit button

External links: Adobe