Director 6 for Macintosh (Visual QuickStart Guide) [Paperback]

Andre Persidsky (Author)

Book Description

Series: Visual QuickStart Guide | Publication Date: April 1997

Director 6 for Macintosh: Visual QuickStart 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 6, 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 revised chapters on using QuickTime movies with the Digital Video window and converting Director movies across platforms using Xtras, third-party plug-ins that make Director more useful and customizable, an expanded Lingo chapter, and a chapter on using Shockwave.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Director 6 for Macintosh offers beginning and intermediate computer users a useful introduction to the Mac version of Macromedia's Director 6 multimedia authoring program. Author Andre Persidsky offers step- by-step instructions throughout the book, explaining how to create your own movies using Director's sprite-animation, paint, text, sound, and digital-video features. You also get an introduction to the more difficult aspects of Director, including such issues as working with color, transitions, and tempo; making stand-alone movies; using Lingo, Director's scripting language; using Xtras, which are add-ins for extending Director; and working with the program's new built-in drag-and-drop behaviors. A Windows version of the book is also available.

From the Back Cover

Director 6 for Macintosh: Visual QuickStart 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 6, 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 revised chapters on using QuickTime movies with the Digital Video window and converting Director movies across platforms using Xtras, third-party plug-ins that make Director more useful and customizable, an expanded Lingo chapter, and a chapter on using Shockwave.

Product Details

• Paperback: 248 pages
• Publisher: Peachpit Pr (April 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201688956
• ISBN-13: 978-0201688955
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,754,113 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars I think it is an excellent starting point, April 22, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Director 6 for Macintosh (Visual QuickStart Guide) (Paperback)

The tittle says it all," quickstart guide." It is design for those who know nothing about the program and want to get started. This was the first book I ever used for Director. I found it very easy to follow. Since, I have moved on to other more "advanced" Director books. Most of them tell you the same thing, but in 500 pages and for $30 more.

2.0 out of 5 stars Not for the beginner!!, October 1, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Director 6 for Macintosh (Visual QuickStart Guide) (Paperback)

I felt thet this book was the equivalent of handing someone a dictionary and then telling them to write a novel (all the words are there, just put them together).