Director

Silicon Beach Training Ltd.
Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom

Course Format: Classroom | E-learning | Virtual Class | Online/Live | On-site/In-house | Blended | Self-paced

Course Description:

'' Adobe Director is a multimedia authoring tool widely used for producing applications for distribution on CD-ROM, DVD and the web. Applications developed for the web in Director are saved as Shockwave movies and embedded in an HTML page. Director contains a sophisticated scripting language called Lingo.

Adobe Director Training Course Objectives
This Adobe Director training course introduces delegates to the enormous range of possibilities that Director offers.

Adobe Director Training Course Content
Essentials
What is multimedia
Types of presentation
Director’s role in multimedia
The scope of the program
Director: a frame-based program
Stage, control panel, cast and score
Importing cast members
Placing cast members in the score
What is a sprite
Layers and inks
Playing a presentation
Setting the tempo
Creating cast members in Director
Animation
Summary of animation techniques
Automatic animation features
Text effects and zoom text
Animating with copy and past
Linear sprite tweening
Customised sprite tweening
Creating and using film loops
Input and Output
Transforming paint cast members
Colour depth
Text and field differences
Mastering ink settings
Arranging and sorting cast members
Working with multiple cast
Score window skills
How Director handles video
Importing video clips
Importing audio clip
Creating a Projector file
Interactivity
What is interactivity
Using behaviors
The power of the go to command
Labelling frames with markers
Getting help on Lingo
Attaching scripts to cast members
Creating score behaviors
Creating movie scripts
Production Skills
Planning project
Storyboarding and flowcharting
Designing a user interface
Planning for different machines
Font mapping
Testing a project
Save and Compact
Protecting movies
Projector options
Customising a projector
Preparing a project for CD-ROM
Director Techniques
Creating circular motion
Reverse Sequence
Improving animation efficiency
Film loops versus QuickTime
Using Onion Skin
Optimising performance: cast
Optimising performance: sprites
Freezing playback speeds
Playing sounds from disk
Using virtual sound channel
Looping sounds from disk
Navigating digital video
Direct To Stage
Creating Shockwave output
Using Flash movies
Scripting
Different types of script
Different types of handler
Different types of event
Using global and local variables
Passing arguments to a handler
Handlers that return a value
Typical initialisation routines
Reducing the number of frames
Creating reusable code
Switching cast member
Switching cast member files
Creating conditional structures
Creating loop structures
Responding to user action
Hidden buttons and rollovers
Allowing user input
Adding menus to your interface
Overview of debugging techniques
Alert messages and text fields
...''

Elements of this syllabus are subject to change.

Phone:+44 (0)1273 622272

School Address/Venue(s):

86 Gloucester Road
Brighton
East Sussex
BN1 4AP
UK

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