Open The Movie; Set Up The Movie - Adobe 65036570 - Director - PC Tutorial

The movie consists of three scenes. The first is a title scene that contains buttons for navigating to the other two
scenes. The second scene is an animation of a tire bouncing. The third scene contains a digital video and buttons
that control it. Each of these scenes also contain navigation buttons.
7 When you finish viewing the movie, click the Stop button at the bottom of the Stage.

Open the movie

To begin the tutorial, open a partially completed Director file.
Select File > Open.
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Within your Director application folder, browse to Tutorials/Basics/Start and double-click the Basic_start.dir
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file.
Note: When you open this file, Director closes the Basic_finished.dir file. If you made any changes to that file, do not
save them.
Select File > Save As.
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4 Name the file My_Basic_start. Save the movie in the Start folder.
By making a copy of the file, you or another user can complete this tutorial again with the Basic_start.dir file.

Set up the movie

You can now arrange your workspace and set properties for your movie, such as the Stage size and color and the
number of channels in your Score. During the authoring process, you view Director movies on the Stage. You can
set up the size and color of the Stage window.
Select Window > Panel Sets > Default to display the default workspace.
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If the Property inspector is not already displayed, select Window > Property Inspector.
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In the Property inspector, click the Movie tab.
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If the Property inspector is not in graphical view, as shown in the following illustration, click the List View Mode
button to switch to the graphical view.
To see the names of buttons (like the List View Mode button), place your mouse pointer over the button. The name
of the button appears in a floating box next to the button until you move the mouse.
Click the Stage Size arrow, and select 500 x 330.
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5 The size of the Stage increases.
If the Score is not open, select Window > Score.
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List View Mode
Stage Size arrow
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Create a basic movie