Building Your First Basic Movie; What You Will Learn; Preparing To Build The Movie Scenes; View The Completed Movie - Adobe 65036570 - Director - PC Tutorial

Building Your First Basic Movie

This tutorial takes you through the steps of creating your first movie in Director®. If you are new to using Director,
follow this tutorial to learn hands-on how to create a simple interactive movie with animation, sound, and video. The
movie is designed to suggest what is possible with Director rather than simulate a fully developed Director project.

What you will learn

This tutorial introduces you to the basic skills needed to build a Director movie. These include the following:
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Setting movie properties
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Importing cast members into Director
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Placing cast members on the Stage and in the Score to create sprites, which are copies of cast members
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Animating sprites
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Creating buttons
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Scripting in Lingo to create user interactivity
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Controlling digital video and audio
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Publishing a movie on the Internet

Preparing to build the movie scenes

Before you begin to build scenes, you will get familiar with how the completed movie should look, and you will
prepare the Stage.

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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2 Select File > Open.
Within your Director application folder, browse to Tutorials/Basics/Finished and double-click the
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Basic_finished.dir file.
4 If windows obscure the Stage, drag them out of the way.
To play the movie, click the Play button at the bottom of the Stage.
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Stop
Rewind
Use the buttons in the movie to navigate from one scene to another and control the playback of the video clip.
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Play
Volume
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0
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Create a basic movie