Director 5 for Macintosh (Visual QuickStart Guides)

Macromedia Director's complexity can be daunting for beginners. However, Director 5 for Macintosh gives users an easy-access how-to guide for creating multimedia presentations using the latest version of Director. With the help of this text, beginners don't need to wander through menus or read a great deal of text. Extensive pictures and captions reassure readers that they are in the correct dialog box, pop-up menu or entry field to do what they need.

Macromedia Director is the premiere authoring software in the multimedia industry, allowing users to merge and orchestrate text, graphics, animation, video, sound effects, and music into business presentations, entertainment and education CD-ROMs, interactive information kiosks, and other full-featured interactive software.

Director 5 for Macintosh: VQS teaches all of Director's core features, showing readers how to arrange multimedia presentations, animate text and graphics, and add full-blown interactivity to custom software. This new edition has been thoroughly revised for Director 5, 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. In addition, there will be new chapters on using QuickTime movies with the Digital Video window and converting Director movies across platforms, plus an expanded Lingo section.