Developed by Macromedia's own staff, this CD/book package features master teachers from Macromedia demonstrating everything from basic Director skills to Lingo in this cross-platform CD-ROM-based training course. Animated movies with full narration bring the instruction alive and lead users through the fundamentals and on to adding interactivity to Director movies via Lingo scripts. After finishing this "course," users will be able to create multimedia projects and Shockwave Web sites using Director Multimedia Studio, as well as use Lingo to make their movies interactive. Users can then practice the skills they've learned using the full-featured demo versions of the software and all the files needed, included on the same CD-ROM. The companion book illustrates the step-by-step instructions offered in the interactive training and offers a browsable overview to the content of the CD as an additional reference. Director 6 and Lingo Interactive is now cross-platform and covers both Director 6 and Lingo. This new, expanded edition--still $49.95--is now appropriate for new, intermediate, and advanced intermediate Director users. After mastering the basics of Director, users move on to complete increasingly more advanced tasks, up to and including scripting with Lingo.

Taking the reader beyond the basics of the documentation set to the intermediate and advanced levels of Director 6, this text includes techniques, tips, and 100 complete Lingo scripts ready for immediate use. The CD-ROM incudes project files, sound files, and Director and Macromedia applications.

This professional-level guide helps users to become media specialists by harnessing what's new in Macromedia Director 6. The book also examines basic functions, and includes little known facts and advanced uses. Each chapter features a list of useful Web sites with additional information, resources and tools. The book also covers advanced features including Lingo operations, digital video tricks and text management techniques.

Director 6 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide teaches all of Director's core features, showing readers how to arrange multimedia presentations, animate text and graphics, and add full-blown interactivity to custom software. The Windows edition covers all basic techniques for creating animation, tools and special effects in the Paint window, cast member types, score channels, techniques for arranging frames and cells in the score, scene transitions, changes to how Director processes color, and upgrades in sound processing. In addition, there are chapters on using QuickTime movies with the Digital Video window and converting Director movies across platforms, using Xtras, third-party plug-ins that make Director more useful and customizable, plus an expanded chapter on Lingo, Director's programming language, and a new chapter on Shockwave.

Unlike other books on Director, this book serves as a practical guide for all aspects of using the program from start to finish. This book is the ideal start for beginners just learning how to use the program. Intermediate users can also benefit by learning shortcuts, advanced tips and Lingo basics. Advanced users who can take advantage of Director's improved power and speed by with this book's more in-depth guide to Lingo, techniques for better project management, shortcuts for title development, and more advanced techniques for developing titles to play over the Internet quickly and efficiently using Shockwave technology. A 16-page color insert features real projects created by professionals who use the product, with tips from the developer on how they used Director to create the project. Unlike competitive books, the Director 8 and Lingo Bible has balanced coverage of both Mac and Windows versions, as Mac is no longer the default platform for Director. The bonus CD contains real-life working examples and exercises from the book along with utilities and other shareware extras for use with Director 8.