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

Andre Persidsky (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 1997 | Series: Visual QuickStart Guide

Director 6 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide 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. The Windows edition covers all 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 are 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, plus an expanded chapter on Lingo, Director's programming language, and a new chapter on Shockwave.

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Amazon.com Review

Director 6 for Windows offers beginning and intermediate computer users with a useful introduction to the Windows 95 and NT versions of Macromedia Director 6, the 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 Macintosh version of the book is also available.

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Director 6 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide 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.

The Windows edition covers all 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 are 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, plus an expanded chapter on Lingo, Director's programming language, and a new chapter on Shockwave.

Product Details

• Paperback: 264 pages
• Publisher: Peachpit Pr; 1st edition (May 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201688964
• ISBN-13: 978-0201688962
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,167,112 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Director 6 For Windows, June 10, 2000

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

Director 6 For Windows is a book of simplicity. If you want to quickly reference the basic functions and see working examples, then this book is the best. Its concise, to the point approach means you don't waste time on waffle. It quickly covers all the major topics in surprising detail due to its use of pictures ( worth more than 1000 words !) and I found the chapter on Animating Sprites, especially useful. When compared to "Director 6 With Lingo", this book has more practical information than a book nearly four times its size. However, it is a small book (250 pages), so don't expect a complete reference to Lingo!