Course details

This workshop will enable you to create high-end, professional presentations. We will go in-depth into animating Text, using Sound & Digital Video. You will learn about creating interactive programs that can be played on both Macintosh and PC's. You will focus on Properties, Palettes, Shockwave Movies and Lingo Scripting. Please contact us regarding pricing and availability.

Course Outline

Introduction to Director:

  • Using a multimedia program to create animation 
  • Interactive movies 
  • Marketing presentations 
  • Technical simulations and entertainment 

Getting comfortable with the Director Interface:

  • Introduction to the Cast, Score, and the Stage 
  • The Control Panel, Toolbar, Paint and Text Windows 
  • How to import Cast Members: Format, image size and bit depth 
  • Placing Cast Members, or Sprites onto the stage, automatically placing it into a range of frames in the score 
  • Creating Ink Effects such as Reverse, Transparent, Smooth, Smear, Darken & Lighten 
  • Adding Sprites to the Score & making changes to multiple Sprites at a time 
  • Playing a Movie using the Playback feature on the Control Panel 
  • Animating a Graphic Image and Reversing Animations 
  • Adding Sound to the Score & what kind of 3rd party sound editing programs are helpful 
  • Adding Digital Video and the editing features available such as cutting, copying & pasting 

Learning the basics of writing a Lingo Script:

  • Using the two ways of animating sprites: Changing it's position on the stage over successive frames vs. altering the image over successive frames 
  • Setting Keyframes to create animation using Tweening 
  • Creating a Circular Path Animation plus using Keyframes and Layers 
  • Animating with Real-time Recording to animate a sprite along a natural, free-flowing path 
  • Setting a Movie Tempo, or speed measured in Frames Per Second (fps) in the Score 
  • Copying and pasting Sprites to a New Location 
  • Playing selected Frames Only to play only a portion of the current movie 
  • Adding Background Music by placing its cast members in a range of frames in the sound channels 
  • Creating a Film Loop composed of a range of score data consolidated into a single cast member 
  • Creating push buttons, check boxes & radio buttons 
  • Creating 3D Objects & extruding Text & sweeping Profiles along a Path 
  • Importing a Sound File and Starting SoundEdit 16 
  • Editing a Sound & adding the Edited Sound to a movie 
  • Working with Shockwave in Director 
  • Setting Cast and Sprite Preferences 
  • Adding Background Sound to Director movies 
  • Inserting Markers used to indicate the individual frames 
  • Navigating to a Marker using the Markers Window 
  • Looping on a Frame to continuously return the playback head to a location 
  • Simplifying Scripts Using Relative Markers & adding a Marker for the Closing Sequence 
  • Tweening a Blend of Sprites to automatically "fill in" the gaps of a sequence 
  • Creating and Playing a Shockwave Movie that compresses, encapsulates and embeds Director movies in HTML documents for the World Wide Web 
  • Preparing a Movie for Straming Shockwave 
  • Using Markers, Labels and adding a Return Button
Updated on 08 November, 2015

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