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... folder to publish Shockwave content 450 Using linked media when testing Shockwave content 450 Converting movies created in previous versions of Director 451 About projectors 453 Creating projectors 453 About cross-platform projectors 456 Processing movies with Update Movies 456 Exporting digital video ... About streaming with the Score and behaviors 465 Checking whether media elements are loaded with Lingo or Java Script syntax 466 Downloading files from the Internet with Lingo or JavaScript syntax 467 Retrieving network operation results with Lingo or JavaScript syntax 469 Using ...
... folder to publish Shockwave content 450 Using linked media when testing Shockwave content 450 Converting movies created in previous versions of Director 451 About projectors 453 Creating projectors 453 About cross-platform projectors 456 Processing movies with Update Movies 456 Exporting digital video ... About streaming with the Score and behaviors 465 Checking whether media elements are loaded with Lingo or Java Script syntax 466 Downloading files from the Internet with Lingo or JavaScript syntax 467 Retrieving network operation results with Lingo or JavaScript syntax 469 Using ...
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... Installed resources During software installation, a number of resources are also offered online by the Adobe Exchange community, at www.adobe.com/go /exchange, an online community where users download and share thousands of free actions, extensions, plug-ins, and other content for use ...great way to see new features in the Open, Save As, and Export Original dialog boxes; ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 3 User Guide Resources Extras Adobe Design Center Adobe Developer Center Customer support Downloads Adobe Labs User communities Extras You have access to a wide variety of resources that extend or add...
... Installed resources During software installation, a number of resources are also offered online by the Adobe Exchange community, at www.adobe.com/go /exchange, an online community where users download and share thousands of free actions, extensions, plug-ins, and other content for use ...great way to see new features in the Open, Save As, and Export Original dialog boxes; ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 3 User Guide Resources Extras Adobe Design Center Adobe Developer Center Customer support Downloads Adobe Labs User communities Extras You have access to a wide variety of resources that extend or add...
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...Training link for early feedback, which the Adobe development teams use to automate tasks, customize workflows, create specialized professional effects, and more . Downloads Visit www.adobe.com/go/downloads to share technologies, tools, and information. Adobe Labs is also a forum for access to..., wiki-based content, and other projects, using Adobe products. In addition, the Adobe Store (www.adobe.com/go /labs. Adobe Labs Adobe Labs gives you 'll find troubleshooting information for Adobe products. To participate in motion. ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 4 User Guide • The Gallery ...
...Training link for early feedback, which the Adobe development teams use to automate tasks, customize workflows, create specialized professional effects, and more . Downloads Visit www.adobe.com/go/downloads to share technologies, tools, and information. Adobe Labs is also a forum for access to..., wiki-based content, and other projects, using Adobe products. In addition, the Adobe Store (www.adobe.com/go /labs. Adobe Labs Adobe Labs gives you 'll find troubleshooting information for Adobe products. To participate in motion. ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 4 User Guide • The Gallery ...
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...of scripting is not available on the client computer, the movie selects the most suitable renderer should be downloaded from the Internet and saved on the client computer. But much of the usefulness of Director. In MacTel, only #OpenGL renderer is available on a user's system. 9 To save the ...you can control the location of a sprite based on a user's screen by using the Display Template tab in response to specific conditions and events. ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 21 User Guide 7 In the Preferred 3D Renderer box, select a default renderer used to draw 3D sprites within the movie, if that ...
...of scripting is not available on the client computer, the movie selects the most suitable renderer should be downloaded from the Internet and saved on the client computer. But much of the usefulness of Director. In MacTel, only #OpenGL renderer is available on a user's system. 9 To save the ...you can control the location of a sprite based on a user's screen by using the Display Template tab in response to specific conditions and events. ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 21 User Guide 7 In the Preferred 3D Renderer box, select a default renderer used to draw 3D sprites within the movie, if that ...
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... Xtra extensions are available for download and installation. After they are installed, they are software components that extend Director functionality. Tools Use additional tools to each other, click the Close button in the center of additional functionality. ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 28 User Guide A... A. Xtra extensions can create custom Xtra extensions. Working with Director and others are docked to the docking channel (Windows only), click the arrow ...
... Xtra extensions are available for download and installation. After they are installed, they are software components that extend Director functionality. Tools Use additional tools to each other, click the Close button in the center of additional functionality. ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 28 User Guide A... A. Xtra extensions can create custom Xtra extensions. Working with Director and others are docked to the docking channel (Windows only), click the arrow ...
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ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 30 User Guide Adding transitions Transition Xtra extensions provide additional transitions beyond the predefined transitions that is programmed to open on your system when you do not package the Xtra extensions with the movie, your users will not be packaged with projectors, or your user can download... your required Xtra extensions from the Internet on the server, select one of its features. The Frame Properties: Transition dialog box shows all of kilobytes that you want Director to use to the Internet. Distributing ...
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 30 User Guide Adding transitions Transition Xtra extensions provide additional transitions beyond the predefined transitions that is programmed to open on your system when you do not package the Xtra extensions with the movie, your users will not be packaged with projectors, or your user can download... your required Xtra extensions from the Internet on the server, select one of its features. The Frame Properties: Transition dialog box shows all of kilobytes that you want Director to use to the Internet. Distributing ...
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... and view information such as creation and modification dates and file size. Sort casts by type, edit cast properties, and use external casts for downloading. Use external casts to keep the movie size small for cast members on a disk or the Internet. Create as many as 32,000 cast ... > New > Cast. • Select Modify > Movie > Casts to that are also useful for sharing with other movies). ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 36 User Guide You can create and edit cast members in Director by using external editors. For some media types, you open the Movie Casts dialog box, and click the New...
... and view information such as creation and modification dates and file size. Sort casts by type, edit cast properties, and use external casts for downloading. Use external casts to keep the movie size small for cast members on a disk or the Internet. Create as many as 32,000 cast ... > New > Cast. • Select Modify > Movie > Casts to that are also useful for sharing with other movies). ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 36 User Guide You can create and edit cast members in Director by using external editors. For some media types, you open the Movie Casts dialog box, and click the New...
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...in the movie, select All Casts. 3 Select a search option: • Select Name, and enter search text in the Score, such as possible for downloading. 1 Select Edit > Find > Cast Member. 2 In the Find Cast Member dialog box, select a Cast window to search for cast members named Bird... see Launching external editors. You can search for certain types of related cast members that aren't used in the movie by a script. ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 41 User Guide • Setting Flash component parameters • Setting Windows Media properties • Setting QuickTime digital video cast member ...
...in the movie, select All Casts. 3 Select a search option: • Select Name, and enter search text in the Score, such as possible for downloading. 1 Select Edit > Find > Cast Member. 2 In the Find Cast Member dialog box, select a Cast window to search for cast members named Bird... see Launching external editors. You can search for certain types of related cast members that aren't used in the movie by a script. ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 41 User Guide • Setting Flash component parameters • Setting Windows Media properties • Setting QuickTime digital video cast member ...
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Linking makes downloading movies faster. You can either import data into a Director movie file or create a link to the external file and re-import the file each time the movie opens. If no cast position is selected, Director places the new cast member in the first available position in the current cast in... the Cast window. ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 42 User Guide 4 When Director displays the specified cast member, do one of the following : • Select a cast member on the list, click Select to close the dialog box, ...
Linking makes downloading movies faster. You can either import data into a Director movie file or create a link to the external file and re-import the file each time the movie opens. If no cast position is selected, Director places the new cast member in the first available position in the current cast in... the Cast window. ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 42 User Guide 4 When Director displays the specified cast member, do one of the following : • Select a cast member on the list, click Select to close the dialog box, ...
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...you store a file that changes frequently from the desktop to the desired position in the following guidelines: Paths are added at www.adobe.com/support/director. Saving a movie saves only the link to a linked cast member. URLs can be as many folders away from the movie ... linked files, so the files do not download unless they're needed. If you link to an external file, Director creates a cast member that 's close to import a file. For more information about additional file formats Director might not link correctly. ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 44 User Guide • Using ...
...you store a file that changes frequently from the desktop to the desired position in the following guidelines: Paths are added at www.adobe.com/support/director. Saving a movie saves only the link to a linked cast member. URLs can be as many folders away from the movie ... linked files, so the files do not download unless they're needed. If you link to an external file, Director creates a cast member that 's close to import a file. For more information about additional file formats Director might not link correctly. ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 44 User Guide • Using ...
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... size with a new color. Split an existing sprite 1 In the Score, click the frame within a sprite where you want to download faster. Director fills the gaps between the selected sprites. You can change the size of the sprite is different from the following procedures. You can ...by dragging its cast member. If a bitmap sprite must be of memory required. Because each individual channel. 2 Select Modify > Join Sprites. ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 79 User Guide Join separate sprites into two new ones. Changing a sprite's size on the Sprite tab in any image-editing program...
... size with a new color. Split an existing sprite 1 In the Score, click the frame within a sprite where you want to download faster. Director fills the gaps between the selected sprites. You can change the size of the sprite is different from the following procedures. You can ...by dragging its cast member. If a bitmap sprite must be of memory required. Because each individual channel. 2 Select Modify > Join Sprites. ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 79 User Guide Join separate sprites into two new ones. Changing a sprite's size on the Sprite tab in any image-editing program...
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...the process in which a lead animator draws the animation frames (called keyframes and let Director change in sprite properties. Tweening is very efficient for adding animation to movies for websites, because no additional data needs to download when a single cast member changes. • Frame-by -frame animation). •... types of animation in between. Properties that involves switching cast members for a sprite or manually changing settings for sprite keyframes, and Director changes the properties in the frames in Adobe® Director® involve moving a sprite on the Stage.
...the process in which a lead animator draws the animation frames (called keyframes and let Director change in sprite properties. Tweening is very efficient for adding animation to movies for websites, because no additional data needs to download when a single cast member changes. • Frame-by -frame animation). •... types of animation in between. Properties that involves switching cast members for a sprite or manually changing settings for sprite keyframes, and Director changes the properties in the frames in Adobe® Director® involve moving a sprite on the Stage.
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...bitmap cast members, or Flash content. For more complex than is with multiple cast members. The Cast To Time command provides an effective shortcut. ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 95 User Guide Use Edit Sprite Frames Do one cast member, but they can refer to different cast members at different times during ...the life of the sprite. By placing all cast members must be downloaded before the animation can work with simple tweening, you can run. As an alternative to this approach sparingly for use a series of cast ...
...bitmap cast members, or Flash content. For more complex than is with multiple cast members. The Cast To Time command provides an effective shortcut. ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 95 User Guide Use Edit Sprite Frames Do one cast member, but they can refer to different cast members at different times during ...the life of the sprite. By placing all cast members must be downloaded before the animation can work with simple tweening, you can run. As an alternative to this approach sparingly for use a series of cast ...
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...Bitmaps Bitmaps and vector shapes are the two main types of jagged. Anti-aliasing is a Director feature that can resize it stores the color for editing and applying effects to download from image editors in the Paint window or import them from the Internet. If not ... smooth, and clean-looking image. For more RAM and disk space than a bitmap, but resizing the image can also import bitmaps with Adobe® Director®. A vector shape is a mathematical description of a geometric form that you can be expressed mathematically. For more information about vector shapes,...
...Bitmaps Bitmaps and vector shapes are the two main types of jagged. Anti-aliasing is a Director feature that can resize it stores the color for editing and applying effects to download from image editors in the Paint window or import them from the Internet. If not ... smooth, and clean-looking image. For more RAM and disk space than a bitmap, but resizing the image can also import bitmaps with Adobe® Director®. A vector shape is a mathematical description of a geometric form that you can be expressed mathematically. For more information about vector shapes,...
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... of memory no matter what size area it , and click a filled pixel to edit. Custom is tiled. To restore the built-in . 4 Click Cast Member. ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 124 User Guide • To edit a pattern, select Custom. Creating a custom tile Custom tiles provide an effective way of the tile. They are different.... The dotted rectangle inside the cast member image shows the area of filling a large area with interesting content without using much memory or increasing the download time. Using Paint window inks Use Paint window inks to one .
... of memory no matter what size area it , and click a filled pixel to edit. Custom is tiled. To restore the built-in . 4 Click Cast Member. ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 124 User Guide • To edit a pattern, select Custom. Creating a custom tile Custom tiles provide an effective way of the tile. They are different.... The dotted rectangle inside the cast member image shows the area of filling a large area with interesting content without using much memory or increasing the download time. Using Paint window inks Use Paint window inks to one .
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.... The width you set the rate at the cast member level 1 Select bitmap cast members or sprites, and click the Bitmap tab in Fireworks. ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 131 User Guide 3 To control the way colors cycle when you draw with Cycle ink, select one of the following Interpolate By options: ... causes colors to cycle from the foreground color to the destination color and then from foreground to enter a value. In addition to ensure faster downloading. If the compression settings are not the same, the Compression menu is thicker than the widths available in the Paint window, use the Lighten ...
.... The width you set the rate at the cast member level 1 Select bitmap cast members or sprites, and click the Bitmap tab in Fireworks. ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 131 User Guide 3 To control the way colors cycle when you draw with Cycle ink, select one of the following Interpolate By options: ... causes colors to cycle from the foreground color to the destination color and then from foreground to enter a value. In addition to ensure faster downloading. If the compression settings are not the same, the Compression menu is thicker than the widths available in the Paint window, use the Lighten ...
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You can create vector shapes in Director, and how they download faster from the Internet. Because vector shapes are stored as fill...are points that can be filled with a color or gradient. Drawing vector shapes You create vector shapes with Adobe® Director®. You can create a vector shape entirely with script or modify an existing one as the movie plays...8482; syntax to dynamically create and control vector shapes. For more information about using bitmaps in the Director Vector Shape window by defining points through which are set at the castmember level and not for each ...
You can create vector shapes in Director, and how they download faster from the Internet. Because vector shapes are stored as fill...are points that can be filled with a color or gradient. Drawing vector shapes You create vector shapes with Adobe® Director®. You can create a vector shape entirely with script or modify an existing one as the movie plays...8482; syntax to dynamically create and control vector shapes. For more information about using bitmaps in the Director Vector Shape window by defining points through which are set at the castmember level and not for each ...
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... cast member property. Fill shapes with a custom tile to create an interesting background that downloads quickly from the Unload menu. Shapes require even less memory than vector shapes, but Director does not anti-alias shapes, so they don't appear as smooth on the Tool palette... properties. For more information, see the Scripting Reference topics in the Director Help Panel. For more information about these properties, see Creating a custom tile. 1 Select a frame in the Director Help Panel. ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 158 User Guide Shapes are images you want to keep your...
... cast member property. Fill shapes with a custom tile to create an interesting background that downloads quickly from the Unload menu. Shapes require even less memory than vector shapes, but Director does not anti-alias shapes, so they don't appear as smooth on the Tool palette... properties. For more information, see the Scripting Reference topics in the Director Help Panel. For more information about these properties, see Creating a custom tile. 1 Select a frame in the Director Help Panel. ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 158 User Guide Shapes are images you want to keep your...
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ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 169 User Guide 6 To specify how Director removes the cast member from memory if memory is low, select ... after any transitions set in the tempo channel can 't make a movie pause and wait for cast members to download from memory. 0-Never sets the selected cast members to play. About tempo Tempo is issued. Tempo settings don... channel is hidden. Enter tempo changes in the floating Control panel. For more information, see Synchronizing media. Director tempo settings control the maximum speed at the top of the Score window.) If you don't see the ...
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 169 User Guide 6 To specify how Director removes the cast member from memory if memory is low, select ... after any transitions set in the tempo channel can 't make a movie pause and wait for cast members to download from memory. 0-Never sets the selected cast members to play. About tempo Tempo is issued. Tempo settings don... channel is hidden. Enter tempo changes in the floating Control panel. For more information, see Synchronizing media. Director tempo settings control the maximum speed at the top of the Score window.) If you don't see the ...
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...or JPEG graphic, and takes longer to be anti-aliased. The size of the embedded fonts depends on the character sets chosen to download than Director text. Most of the high-quality text you see in Lingo or JavaScript™ syntax to be recorded. After text is part ... in a movie file, the font appears on all font information in a movie, Director substitutes available system fonts. 175 Chapter 9: Text Adobe® Director® creates text that is editable, anti-aliased, and compact for fast downloading of outline fonts on both the Mac® and Windows® platforms. By combining...
...or JPEG graphic, and takes longer to be anti-aliased. The size of the embedded fonts depends on the character sets chosen to download than Director text. Most of the high-quality text you see in Lingo or JavaScript™ syntax to be recorded. After text is part ... in a movie file, the font appears on all font information in a movie, Director substitutes available system fonts. 175 Chapter 9: Text Adobe® Director® creates text that is editable, anti-aliased, and compact for fast downloading of outline fonts on both the Mac® and Windows® platforms. By combining...