Creating Shockwave Movies - MACROMEDIA DIRECTOR MX-USING DIRECTOR MX Use Manual

Creating Shockwave movies

You save your work as a Shockwave (DCR) movie to prepare it for playback in a Shockwave-
enabled web browser, or to make disk-based movies smaller. Using a Shockwave movie also
prevents your users from editing the movie if they own Director.
If the Shockwave movie you're creating will be distributed on the Internet and requires any Xtra
extensions, make sure the Xtra extensions are listed in the Movie Xtras dialog box and that
Download If Needed is selected for each required Xtra extension. See "Managing Xtra extensions
for distributed movies" on page 574.
Note: Use Update Movies to convert several movies at once to the Shockwave format. For more information, see
"Processing movies with Update Movies" on page 585.
Using Publish default settings
To create a Shockwave movie, you use the Publish command. The default settings create a DCR
file and an HTML file with all of the tags necessary to display your DCR movie.
If you use the default Publish settings, Director does the following:
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Creates a DCR and HTML file in the same directory as your Director (DIR) movie.
Note: Director creates a CCT file for each external cast and, by default, saves the CCT file in the same folder as
the DCR file. To specify a different file location, hold Alt (Windows) or Option (Macintosh) when you select File >
Publish. Continue to hold the key for access to dialog boxes that let you specify new paths for both your DCR
and CCT files.
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Gives both your DCR and HTML files the same name as your DIR file, with the appropriate
extensions (for example, MyMovie.dcr and MyMovie.html).
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Sets the DCR movie's width and height to match the dimensions of the DIR movie.
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Configures the DCR movie and HTML file so that if your users resize their browsers, the
DCR movie remains the same size as the original DIR movie.
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Uses the same background color while loading your DCR movie as your movie Stage color.
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Compresses bitmap images and sound using JPEG compression. Note that if you've
compressed images for individual cast members, those settings will override compression set at
the movie level in Publish settings.
If you change the default Publish settings, Director saves those changes when you save your
movie. For more on changing Publish settings, see the next section.
To create a Shockwave movie:
Save your movie.
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Select File > Publish.
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Director creates a Shockwave version of your movie, and an HTML file if you selected a
template, based on your Publish settings. Your default browser launches with the HTML page
you just created.
Note: Your default browser is specified in your Network Preferences dialog box. To change your default
browser, select Edit > Preferences > Network.
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