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Adobe Director Training

2 days - private courses from £1390 + vat

Adobe Director is a multimedia authoring tool widely used for producing applications for distribution on CD-ROM, DVD and the web. Applications developed for the web in Director are saved as Shockwave movies and embedded in an HTML page. Director contains a sophisticated scripting language called Lingo.

Adobe Director Training Course Objectives

This Adobe Director training course introduces delegates to the enormous range of possibilities that Director offers.

Adobe Director Training Course Content

Essentials

• What is multimedia
• Types of presentation
• Director's role in multimedia
• The scope of the program
• Director: a frame-based program
• Stage, control panel, cast and score
• Importing cast members
• Placing cast members in the score
• What is a sprite
• Layers and inks
• Playing a presentation
• Setting the tempo
• Creating cast members in Director

Animation

• Summary of animation techniques
• Automatic animation features
• Text effects and zoom text
• Animating with copy and past
• Linear sprite tweening
• Customised sprite tweening
• Creating and using film loops

Input and Output

• Transforming paint cast members
• Colour depth
• Text and field differences
• Mastering ink settings
• Arranging and sorting cast members
• Working with multiple cast
• Score window skills
• How Director handles video
• Importing video clips
• Importing audio clip
• Creating a Projector file

Interactivity

• What is interactivity
• Using behaviors
• The power of the go to command
• Labelling frames with markers
• Getting help on Lingo
• Attaching scripts to cast members
• Creating score behaviors
• Creating movie scripts

Production Skills

• Planning project
• Storyboarding and flowcharting
• Designing a user interface
• Planning for different machines
• Font mapping
• Testing a project
• Save and Compact
• Protecting movies
• Projector options
• Customising a projector
• Preparing a project for CD-ROM

Director Techniques

• Creating circular motion
• Reverse Sequence
• Improving animation efficiency
• Film loops versus QuickTime
• Using Onion Skin
• Optimising performance: cast
• Optimising performance: sprites
• Freezing playback speeds
• Playing sounds from disk
• Using virtual sound channel
• Looping sounds from disk
• Navigating digital video
• Direct To Stage
• Creating Shockwave output
• Using Flash movies

Scripting

• Different types of script
• Different types of handler
• Different types of event
• Using global and local variables
• Passing arguments to a handler
• Handlers that return a value
• Typical initialisation routines
• Reducing the number of frames
• Creating reusable code
• Switching cast member
• Switching cast member files
• Creating conditional structures
• Creating loop structures
• Responding to user action
• Hidden buttons and rollovers
• Allowing user input
• Adding menus to your interface
• Overview of debugging techniques
• Alert messages and text fields

Adobe Director Training Course Prerequisites

• Ability to use and navigate a web browser.

Director Training Course Recommended Reading

Director 8.5 Studio - by Friends of Ed Publishers – buy from amazon
Director's Third Dimension - Paul Catanese – buy from amazon
Director MX – buy from amazon

Download course outline as pdf.