Chapter 4: Building Your First Basic Movie; What You Will Learn; Preparing To Build The Movie Scenes - MACROMEDIA DIRECTOR MX 2004-GETTING STARTED WITH DIRECTOR Getting Started

This tutorial takes you through the steps of creating your first movie in Macromedia Director MX
2004. If you are new to using Director, follow this tutorial to learn hands-on how to create a
simple interactive movie with animation, sound, and video. The movie is designed to suggest
what is possible with Director rather than simulate a fully developed Director project.
Before stepping through this tutorial, you should first take a few moments to read
"Getting to Know the Workspace," on page
and provides an important foundation for this tutorial.

What you will learn

This tutorial introduces you to the basic skills needed to build a Director movie. These include
the following:
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Setting movie properties
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Importing cast members into Director
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Placing cast members on the Stage and in the Score to create sprites, which are copies of
cast members
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Animating sprites
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Creating buttons
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Scripting in Lingo to create user interactivity
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Controlling digital video and audio
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Publishing a movie on the Internet

Preparing to build the movie scenes

Before you begin to build scenes, you will get familiar with how the completed movie should
look, and you will prepare the Stage.
Building Your First Basic Movie
17. It introduces you to the Director user interface
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