Macromedia Director 6 for Dummies | |
 List Price: $24.99 Your Price: $6.99 You Save: $18 Share:  Digg  Delicious  Facebook One of the hallmarks of the Dummies series is humor, making the learning process as fun and painless as possible while addressing the most basic issues that beginners need to understand. This is true for Macromedia Director 6 for Dummies, an outstanding book for multimedia novices. This guide provides a lot of hand-holding as it teaches you how to create animations and movies in Director 6. The author first defines multimedia and explains its components. Then she instructs you on how to launch the program and familiarizes you with the interface and new improvements to the program's help system, sprite-management features, and file-import support. Next, the author tackles meatier topics and shows you how to use Director's Cast Windows, Score Window, Paint Window, Text and Field Windows, Tool Palette, Color Palettes Window, Digital Video Window, and Markers Window. Finally, she teaches you how to use the basic elements of Lingo, Director's scripting language; use Drag-and-Drop Behaviors; add sound; understand cross-platform issues; and create Shockwave movies. The Part of Tens features ten common questions and answers about Director as well as ten interesting tips for animating your movies. Macromedia Director 6 for Dummies covers Windows and Macintosh versions of Director 6. A CD-ROM includes demo versions of Macromedia software programs, such as Extreme 3D and xRes, as well as Equilibrium DeBabelizer. | |