Developed by Macromedia's staff and user-tested in Macromedia's Authorized Training Centers, this large-format book includes the complete curricula from the Training Centers' 5-day hands-on courses for both Director and Lingo, normally costing $1200-$1400 each. Master teachers present lessons in manageable step-by-step work sessions, enabling users to work through the course at their own pace. Director 6 and Lingo Authorized now covers both Director 6 and Lingo, replacing two separate previous editions (Director Multimedia Studio Authorized and Lingo for Director 5 Authorized). This new, expanded edition--still only $44.95--is now appropriate for new, intermediate, and advanced intermediate Director users. After mastering the basics of Director, users move on to complete increasingly more advanced tasks, up to and including scripting with Lingo.
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Macromedia Director 6 and its scripting language, Lingo, are the premiere tools for multimedia authoring. In Macromedia Director 6 and Lingo Authorized, you get in-depth guidance to using Director 6 (and Lingo) for Windows and Macintosh, and whether you're new to the program or already an adept user you'll learn something new here. It's really like two books in one: Director 6 Authorized and Lingo Authorized. In the former, the authors introduce you to the basics of Director's interface and show you how to create simple animations and add transitions, sounds, and video. Then they delve into adding interactivity to your movies, writing Lingo scripts, and using keyframes, layers, film loops, and buttons. Next you learn about using the other Macromedia products, now included with Director 6, to enhance your movies: Extreme 3D for 3-D modeling, xRes for bitmap editing, and SoundEdit 16 and Sound Forge XP for sound editing. The more advanced aspects of the package come next and include setting sprite properties, working with palettes, inserting markers, using the Color Cycling feature, applying blends, and using Shockwave to prepare your work for the Web.
In the second book, Lingo Authorized, the authors start off by explaining the basics of Lingo and how to use it to build basic and advanced navigation into your movie, synchronize with digital video, control sprites, and optimize sprites using parameters and global variables. Next you learn how to add keyboard controls to your movie, use lists and multiple casts, work with databases and property lists, add Web interactivity to your movie, and use Shockwave for Web output. When you're done with this book, you'll be a Lingo expert. Yet you can learn just the basics of Lingo, if you wish, quite easily, and forego the later chapters entirely.
Both books feature the same curriculum as that taught at Macromedia's Authorized Training Centers and use a carefully constructed approach that builds upon your growing knowledge from lesson to lesson. The included CD-ROM has project files, including completed versions of projects, and demo and full versions of Macromedia software.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
An outstanding instruction manual for Director 6.,
By cnuell@mtsu.edu (Murfreesboro, Tennessee) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Director 6 Authorized (Macromedia Press Series) (Paperback)
I have used this book teaching Director 6 to university students in Multimedia Authoring class. None of the students had any previous experience with Director, but within 3 weeks they were extremely comfortable and knowledgable about it. The hybrid Mac/Windows CD that comes with the book has a save-disabled version, and is perfect for students who want to work on the tutorials outside of class, sometimes on a different platform. The class has responded enthusiastically to using this book as a very practical text. The Lingo section provides more advanced lessons for those who want to take control of the stage and cast through scripting.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good content and depth, complicated enough to be satisfying.,
By rnorby@mystic.bhsu.edu (Spearfish, SD) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Director 6 Authorized (Macromedia Press Series) (Paperback)
MacroMedia Director is a fairly intricate application to learn. This book does a good job of describing both Mac and PC commands, as well as presenting step by step instructions to get started. The examples and included media are good for getting started while providing a satisfying product for the time spent. Sound and video clips are good examples of how to keep a multimedia document to a manageable size. A few of the visual examples show stage and picture sizes of 8 to 16 bit, where our Pentium II computer was giving 1 6 to 32 bit in the same place, but this did not seem distracting while trying to learn. I would highly recommend this book to someone who wants to learn Director (and Lingo) thoroughly and on her own!
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good tutorials but poor quality control,
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This review is from: Director 6 Authorized (Macromedia Press Series) (Paperback)
I found Director 6 and Lingo Authorized to be useful for the Director beginner with well thought out tutorials and a building block process that allows you to gain a gradual understanding of the application. However, I struggled in each chapter with technical problems. Every chapter had at least one or more mistakes that you as the inexperienced user had to troubleshoot. It became a frustrating process knowing that I would run in to a problem that wasn't created by me. I spent at least a quarter of my learning time troubleshooting what turned out to be simple typos in the book. Additionally, not all aspects worked, at least not on a Win 98 platform. Anything that was video oriented didn't play and some of the completed lessons didn't work properly either. Some contained script errors and others just didn't work. I have a hard time recommending this book because of those problems even though I think the material is good. If Macromedia improved the quality, I would highly recommend it. Otherwise, I wouldn't get it unless you have a great deal of patience.
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