Macromedia Director 8
Intermediate Level Training Course

Courseware Training Manual

1. DRAWING AND PAINTING INTERMEDIATE

INK MASKS

• Using Ink Masks

ONION SKINS

• Applying Onion Skins

2. ANIMATING SPRITES

TWEENING

• Applying Tweening
• Moving Keyframes in the Score
• Tweening a Sprite
• Clean Tweening

3. MOTION

PATH OF A SPRITE

• Viewing and Adjusting the Path of a Sprite
• Adding a bend to a Tweened Path

RECORDING

• Using Step Recording
• Using Real-time Recording

ANIMATED SEQUENCES

• Constructing Animated Sequences
• Exchanging a Cast Member within a Sprite
• Using Reverse the Animated Sequence
• Using Looping Film
• Using Real-Time-Recording with Looped Film:

4. FLASH MOVIES

FLASH MOVIES

• Using a Flash Movie:
• Setting options for your flash cast member:
• Using Media Options for a Flash Cast Member
• Using Playback Options for a Flash Cast Member

5. DIGITAL VIDEO

IMPORTING DIGITAL VIDEO

• Importing Digital Video
• To import digital video files:
• Previewing a Digital Video
• To preview an imported AVI movie:

DIGITAL VIDEO PROPERTIES

• Setting Digital Video Properties
• To prepare the properties for the digital video cast member within the Property Inspector:
• Setting digital video sprite properties

EDITING VIDEO

• Reordering a sequence
• To copy and paste digital video frames:

ANIMATED GIF

• Setting animated GIF options
• To set animated GIF options:

6. SOUND

IMPORTING SOUNDS

• Using Importing Sound
• Creating Internal Sound Cast Members
• Linked External Sounds
• Importing Formats
• Volume

SOUNDS IN THE SCORE

• Placing Sounds in the Score
• Loop a sound

SOUND TO ACTIONS

• Using a Song throughout an entire animation
• Extending sounds
• Using cue points to animate sound

COMPRESSING SOUNDS

• Compressing internal sounds
• Linking to External Shockwave Audio

CREATE EXTERNAL SHOCKWAVE AUDIO FILES

• Creating external Shockwave Audio files

7. STREAMING AUDIO OR MPEG 3 FILES

SET LINKED SOUND TO STREAM

• Using the SWA Cast Member Properties
• Streaming a linked Shockwave Audio or MPEG 3 sound

8. PLAYING MOVIES

CONTROL PANEL

• Using the Control Panel
• Opening the Control Panel:
• Rewinding the movie to first frame:
• Stopping playback
• Starting Movie Playback
• Setting the volume
• Stepping forward
• Stepping backward
• Stopping/Starting loop playback
• Play only part of a movie
• Jumping to a specific frame

MOVIE TEMPO

• Setting the Movie Tempo
• Setting a new movie tempo

TARGET TEMPO VS. ACTUAL TEMPO

• Using target tempo and Set Tempo
• Setting the tempo
• Changing the Actual tempo units
• Changing the actual-tempo display

LOCKING PLAYBACK SPEED

• Establishing a tempo
• Locking the playback speed

PAUSES IN A MOVIE

• Setting pauses in a movie
• Setting a pause in a movie
• To set a pause in a movie

TRANSITIONS WITHIN SCENES

• Using Scene Transitions
• Setting a Transition
• To set a transition:

9. SHOCKWAVE

USING SHOCKWAVE

• Playing a Shockwave movie

PUBLISH SETTINGS (DEFAULT)

• Changing the Formats Tab Setting
• Changing the General Tab Setting
• Using Shockwave settings
• Changing the Shockwave Tab Setting
• Changing the Compression Tab Setting
• Changing the Shockwave Save As Tab Setting
• Using Image settings
• Default Publish Settings

PLAYING A SHOCKWAVE MOVIE

• Playing a Shockwave movie for the Web
• To play a Shockwave movie on the Web:
• Playing a Shockwave movie on your local system
• Setting a Shockwave movie to play through once
• To set a Shockwave movie to play through once:
• Specifing a browser for previewing a movie
• To specify a browser for previewing a movie:
• Previewing a Shockwave movie in a browser from Director
• To preview a Shockwave movie in a browser from Director

10. CHANGING A MOVIE TO SHOCKWAVE

GENERATE A SHOCKWAVE MOVIE

• Generating a Shockwave movie
• Generating and viewing a Shockwave movie

ORGANIZE FILES FOR WEB DELIVERY

• Organizing a Shockwave movie files for Web delivery