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.

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.

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.

This is the Windows Director book that will become the definitive resource manual to using Director at a professional level. The tutorial nature of the instruction will elevate the user's proficiency to a higher level. The CD-ROM contains project templates, Lingo scripts, sound, movie and still images and the latest demo version of Director.

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.