Adobe Director 11.5: Introduction Training Course

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London (EC1) 25/03/10 £ 675

London (EC1) 19/04/10 £ 675

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Course Overview

Adobe Director is widely used by multimedia authors, elearning developers and game developers to build rich interactive applications and games for both the web and CD-ROM.

This two day course is a practical, hands-on introductory course which covers creating animations, building interactivity, working in 3D, using the power of Lingo and utilising databases.

Audience

Assumes no previous experience of using Director.

Skills Gained

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to create, import and sequence media elements in Director, publish animations for use on the web, in multimedia productions and games and understand the essentials of the Lingo/JavaScript programming environment.

Course Outline

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
Working with multiple cast
Score window skills
Placing cast members in the score
What is a sprite
Layers and inks
Playing a presentation
Setting the tempo
Creating cast members in Director

Basic media

Media overview
About ink settings
Importing bitmaps
Setting colour depth
Creating bitmaps
Creating vector shapes
Using transitions
Creating and formatting text
Embedding fonts

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

Rich media

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

Output

Saving Director files
Creating a Projector file
Projector file settings
Using external casts
Handling linked media
Exporting animations as movie clips
Creating a multimedia CD
Creating a Shockwave movie

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

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