View The Completed Movie; Open The Movie; Set Up The Movie - MACROMEDIA DIRECTOR MX 2004-GETTING STARTED WITH DIRECTOR Getting Started

View the completed movie

Start by viewing a completed version of the tutorial movie to become familiar with how your
finished movie should look.
Start Director.
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Select File > Open.
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Within your Director MX 2004 application folder, browse to Tutorials/Basics/Finished and
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double-click the Basic_finished.dir file.
If windows obscure the Stage, drag them out of the way.
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To play the movie, click the Play button at the bottom of the Stage.
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Play
Stop
Rewind
Use the buttons in the movie to navigate from one scene to another and control the playback
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of the video clip.
The movie consists of three scenes. The first is a title scene that contains buttons for navigating
to the other two scenes. The second scene is an animation of a tire bouncing. The third scene
contains a digital video and buttons that control it. Each of these scenes also contain
navigation buttons.
When you finish viewing the movie, click the Stop button at the bottom of the Stage.
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Open the movie

To begin the tutorial, open a partially completed Director file.
Select File > Open.
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Within your Director MX 2004 application folder, browse to Tutorials/Basics/Start and
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double-click the Basic_start.dir file.
Note: When you open this file, Director closes the Basic_finished.dir file. If you made any changes
to that file, do not save them.
Select File > Save As.
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Name the file My_Basic_start. Save the movie in the Start folder.
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By making a copy of the file, you or another user can complete this tutorial again with the
Basic_start.dir file.

Set up the movie

You can now arrange your workspace and set properties for your movie, such as the Stage size and
color and the number of channels in your Score. During the authoring process, you view Director
movies on the Stage. You can set up the size and color of the Stage window.
Select Window > Panel Sets > Default to display the default workspace.
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If the Property inspector is not already displayed, select Window > Property Inspector.
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In the Property inspector, click the Movie tab.
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