About Projectors; Creating Projectors - MACROMEDIA DIRECTOR MX 2004-USING DIRECTOR Use Manual

To be included as a file in a Projector, a movie must be created with Director 8.5 or newer.
However, using Lingo, movies created with earlier versions of Director can be played (e.g. go to
movie, play movie) back to and including movies created with Director 5.
When you open a Director 7 movie in Director MX or convert it to the new format with Update
Movies, the following changes occur to the movie:
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The data structure is changed to the latest file format.
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Shapes are not converted to the new Bézier shapes.
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Ink functionality is not updated unless you turn off Maintain Outdated Ink Mode Limitations
in the Movie Properties dialog box.
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Old Score data, from versions of Director before Director 5, is converted to the new Score,
combining adjacent frames in the old Score containing the same cast members into single
sprites in the new Score. You might want to split or join sprites to make working in the Score
more convenient.

About projectors

A projector is a stand-alone version of a movie. Projectors require certain Xtra extensions to use
text, Flash content, connect to the Internet, and use certain other features. Director includes the
most common required Xtra extensions by default. You can include or exclude Xtra extensions for
each movie using the Include in Projector option in the Movie Xtras dialog box. You can also add
Xtra extensions to a projector manually the same way you select movie files. You can create
Macintosh projectors using a Windows application and create a Windows projector using a
Macintosh application. For more information, see
on page 463.
In addition to the standard projector, you can create a fast-start projector, which typically starts
faster. A fast-start projector doesn't include Xtra extensions inside the projector itself, so there's
nothing to unpack.

Creating projectors

You can include only Director MX 2004 movies in projectors. You can use the Update Movies
command to convert older movies to the latest version of Director. For more information, see
"Converting movies created in previous versions of Director" on page
To create a projector:
Select File > Publish Settings.
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The Publish Settings dialog appears.
From the Formats tab, select Projector in the Publish section of the dialog box.
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From the Player type pop-up menu on the Projector tab, select Standard to create a standard
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Projector or select Shockwave to create a Shockwave projector.
Standard includes the uncompressed player code in the projector file. This option starts the
movie faster than other options but creates the largest projector file.
Shockwave
makes the projector use the Shockwave Player installed in a user's system instead
of including the player code in the projector file. If the Shockwave Player is not available when
the movie runs, the movie prompts the user to download it.
460 Chapter 23: Packaging Movies for Distribution
"About cross-platform projectors"
459.