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.
Two books in one! The complete curriculum from Macromedia's Authorized Training Centers, in one low-priced book/2-CD-ROM package developed by Macromedia experts. Provides more than 50 hours of hands-on training. The lessons in the book take you step-by-step through real-world, interactive projects. Create lively animations and transition effects. Use Shockwave to ready your movies for the Web. The enclosed CD-ROM holds all the files you need to work through the lessons, plus completed versions to compare with your own work.
