Using interactive projects and numerous bandw images as learning aids, this book shows intermediate users how to create animations and transition effects; edit and play sounds for movies; create and apply behaviors with and without scripting; trigger animation and sound feedback to prompt user actions; create movies which branch to different sections depending on user input; synchronize animations with digital video; and use Shockwave to prepare movies for the Web. The CD-ROM contains all the files needed to work through the lessons plus sample files. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The lessons in this book take you step-by-step through real-world interactive projects--over 30 hours of training!

After mastering the basics of Director, users move on to complete increasingly more advanced tasks up to and including scripting with Lingo. Using a text-based approach, the book allows readers to work through lessons by employing practice files on the CD-ROM.

Vols. 8-10 of the 1965-1984 master cumulation constitute a title index.