Import A Sound; Add A Sound To The Score - MACROMEDIA DIRECTOR MX 2004-GETTING STARTED WITH DIRECTOR Getting Started

Import a sound

The QuickTime movie has no sound track. You can make the scene more interesting by adding
sound to accompany the video. The easiest way to add sound to a Director movie is to import a
sound cast member and place it in one of the sound channels in the Score. Whenever the
playhead plays frames that include sound sprites, the sound plays. You can also play sounds by
using Lingo instead of the sound channels, which you will learn later in this tutorial.
Select File > Import.
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In the Import Files dialog box, navigate within your Director MX application folder to
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Tutorials/Basics/BasicsMedia folder, and open the Sounds folder.
Select the sound file named track1, and click the Add button.
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In the Media box at the bottom of the dialog box, select the Link to External File option.
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This option tells Director to import only a reference to the file, leaving the sound file separate
from the Director movie file.
Click the Import button. The track1 sound file is imported into the Cast window.
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Add a sound to the Score

Now you can add the sound to the Score. Because sounds are heard and not seen, they do not
appear on the Stage. You place sound sprites directly in the Score.
In the Score, click the Hide/Show Effects Channels button if the effects channels are not visible.
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The effects channels should appear above the frame number bar in the Score.
The Hide/Show Effects Channels button
How the effects channels should look when they are visible
In the Score, click frame 55.
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Sound channels