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Macromedia Training Overview
Students will use Macromedia Director as a tool for creating multimedia presentations. Students will create a banner ad for a Web page on the Internet in Shockwave format, and an interactive presentation for distribution on a CD-ROM or DVD
Target Student:
This course is designed for the student who has little or no experience using Director, and who needs to learn the basics skills that are necessary in order to begin to use this program effectively to create Web content in the Shockwave format and content for interactive presentations.
Prerequisites
Students enrolling in this course should understand the basics of using their computer’s operating system. For example, students should know how to launch an application, create and save files, and copy files from CDs and other media.
Delivery method
Instructor-led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.
Benefits:
Students will learn how to create animated Shockwave files, as well as media-rich presentations created as stand-alone applications for distribution on interactive CD-ROMs.
What's Next:
Director 8.0 Introduction is the first course in this series. Students who want to learn advanced features can take Director 8.0 Advanced.
Hardware/Software Requirements
You will need
- At least 64 megabytes (MB) of Random Access Memory (RAM).
- At least 50 MB of free hard-disk space.
- A 200 MHz or faster Intel Pentium processor.
- Windows 95, 98, NT4, or 2000.
- A 256 or higher color monitor capable of at least 800 x 600 resolution.
- CD-ROM drive.
- Macromedia Director 8.
- QuickTime 3.0 or later.
- Shockwave plug-in for Web browsers.
- A Web browser (such as Netscape Communicator or Microsoft Internet Explorer).
- See your reference manual for hardware considerations that apply to your specific hardware setup.
- In addition, you will need printers if you want to print the movies created in the course.
Performance-Based Objectives
Lesson objectives help students become comfortable with the course, and also provide a means to evaluate learning. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Navigate in the Director environment.
- Create animated Shockwave files for viewing on the Internet.
- Create media-rich presentations as stand-alone applications for distribution on interactive CD-ROMs.
- Control the tempo and transitions between frames to fine-tune movies.
- Control the playback of movies with basic Lingo scripts.
- Use Behaviors and the Behavior library to make images or text act as clickable buttons to perform various tasks.
- Synchronize movie playback with cues from a soundtrack.
- Create animation with tweening, multiple images, and film loops.
Course duration
1 Day
Macromedia Training Course outline
Lesson 1: The Director Environment
- Director Environment Elements
- Playing a Movie
- Setting Up the Authoring Environment
Lesson 2: Creating Linear Movies
- Creating a New Movie
- Creating a Cast
- Creating the Movie
Lesson 3: Creating Interactive Movies
- Storyboarding
- Choosing Movie Properties
- Media Types
- Creating Casts
- Working With Sprites
Lesson 4: Controlling Playback
- Transitions
- Tempo
- Markers
- Scripts, Behaviors, and the Behavior Library
- Looping and Synchronizing Music
Lesson 5: Animating Sprites
- Types of Animation
- Flash Animations
- Video Cast Members
- Tweening
- Multiple Cast Members In One Sprite
Lesson 6: Outputting Movies
- Creating Shockwave Movies
- Creating Projectors
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