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

To specify align tags for your movie, use the Horizontal Align and Vertical Align pop-up
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menus. You can select left, center, or right horizontal alignment, and top, center, or bottom
vertical alignment.

About projectors

To create projectors for any version of Windows, you must use the Windows version of Director;
likewise, you can create Macintosh projectors only with the Macintosh version of Director.
Projectors require certain Xtra extensions to use text, use Flash movies, 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. (See the next section.)
In addition to the standard projector, you can create a fast-start projector, which typically
launches faster. A fast-start projector doesn't include Xtra extensions inside the projector itself, so
there's nothing to unpack.

Creating projectors

When creating a projector, place the starting movie at the top of the list of files in the Create
Projector dialog box. If the Play Every Movie option is selected in the Projector Options dialog
box, movies play in the order they appear in the list. If this option is off, only the first movie plays.
If your movie contains Lingo that switches between movies, the order of the other movies may
not be important.
You can include only Director MX movies in projectors. You can use the Update Movies
command to convert older movies to the latest version of Director. For more information, see
"Processing movies with Update Movies" on page 585.
To create a standard projector:
Select File > Create Projector.
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Double-click the movies and external casts to include in the projector. Click Add All to include
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all the movies in the open folder.
Director transfers the name of the movies or casts to the file list.
Use the Move Up and Move Down buttons to arrange the movies in the proper order.
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Click Options.
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Director retains the options settings once you define them; you don't have to set them
every time.
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