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CHAPTER 2
Director MX Basics Tutorial
The Director Basics chapter of Using Director introduces you to the Macromedia Director MX
user interface and basic Director concepts; you’ll gain a greater understanding of the material
presented in this tutorial if you’ve first read Chapter 1, “Director Basics,” on page 19. This
tutorial reiterates and expands on much of that information while it guides you through the
process of creating a simple interactive movie with animation, sound, and video. The movie you’ll
create is designed to suggest what is possible with Director rather than simulate a fully developed
Director project.
What you’ll learn
This tutorial introduces you to the basic skills needed to build a Director movie. These include
the following:
• Becoming familiar with Director windows
• Specifying movie properties
• Creating cast members within Director and from imported files
• Placing cast members on the Stage and in the Score to create sprites, which are copies of cast
members
• Animating sprites
• Creating buttons
• Using behaviors and Lingo to create user interactivity
• Controlling digital video and audio
• Publishing the movie on the web