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- Director 6 Demo ReadMe File
- 6/26/97
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- Table of Contents
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- 1. Introduction
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- 2. How to Buy Director 6
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- 3. Director 6 Description
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- 4. Late-Breaking News about Director 6
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- 1. Introduction
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- This file contains information about Director 6, how to order a
- complete version, and late-breaking information learned since the help
- system was completed. For the most up-to-date information on Director
- 6, please visit our web site at
- http://www.macromedia.com/support/director.
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- 2. How to Buy Director 6
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- To purchase the Director 6 Multimedia Studio, please visit our web site
- at http://www.macromedia.com to find the reseller nearest you. Or
- contact Macromedia at (800) 470-7211. Outside the U.S., please call
- (415) 252-2000.
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- 3. Director 6 Description
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- As the industry leader, Director 6 Multimedia Studio - with Director,
- xRes, Extreme 3D, and Sound - provides everything you need to create
- professional multimedia projects. Artists, creative directors,
- corporate presentation specialists, students, educators, publishers -
- more than 350,000 users worldwide - choose Director to produce
- professional multimedia presentations, engaging Web pages, animations,
- interactive advertising, kiosks, and CD-ROM titles. The Studio features
- tightly integrated tools for creating 2D and 3D images, sound,
- animation, and a complete authoring environment with the most advanced
- Web authoring features available.
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- The Director 6 Multimedia Studio has everything you need:
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- * New Director 6 is at the heart of the Studio. Use Director 6 to
- integrate and synchronize multimedia, including text, graphics,
- animation, digital video, and sound, produced with any popular media
- creation tool. Easily add interactivity using drag and drop behaviors.
- Take advantage of the most advanced Web authoring features available.
- Stream rich, fully interactive Shockwave movies over the Web. Create
- Shocked CDs (hybrid CD+Internet applications), and use browser scripting
- to create interactions between multiple Web objects, including Shockwave
- movies.
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- * Extreme 3D 2 is the leading 3D tool for creative professionals. It has
- everything you need to go from modeling and animation to final rendering
- and the Web. Create organic 3D models, dynamic 3D animations, and 3D
- graphics for print, multimedia, and the Web. Advanced features include
- metaforms, particles, visible spotlights, and much more!
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- * Power your creativity with xRes 3. Create and prepare images for your
- Web site using embedded URLs, transparent GIF, and progressive JPEG;
- drag and drop between leading graphics programs, including FreeHand and
- Photoshop; customize photos fast with cutting-edge, high-resolution
- performance; even publish high-resolution images on the Web using
- Shockwave.
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- * The most powerful tool for multimedia audio on the Macintosh,
- SoundEdit 16 version 2 is a 16-bit, 44kHz sound editor, capable of
- creating multi-track CD-quality soundtracks without additional hardware.
- SoundEdit 16 lets users adjust input levels, apply effects, batch
- process files, tightly synchronize sound to QuickTime movies, and much
- more.
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- * Sound Forge XP, the 16-bit Windows sound editor from Sonic Foundry,
- lets you record, edit, mix, and manipulate audio files for use in
- multimedia productions. It features time compression, pencil editing,
- pitch bend, 16- to 8-bit dithering, sample rate conversions, and a wide
- variety of sound effects and audio processors.
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- 4. Late-Breaking News about Director 6
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- Following are some items that may be relevant to your use of this
- evaluation copy of Director 6.
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- -- New Lingo --
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- There is a new Lingo command called "the runMode".
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- This command can be used to determine the runtime environment of the
- movie. There are
- three possible results: "Author", "Projector", and "Plugin".
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- -- New shortcuts --
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- Keypad Plus temporarily hides all selection handles, paths, and info
- overlays on stage.
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- Keypad Slash brings up the Sprite Inspector.
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- Keypad Star brings up the Behavior Inspector.
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- Shift + Keypad 1 or 3 moves the playback head to the previous or next
- keyframe in the (first) selected sprite.
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- For a complete list of all late-breaking information on Director 6,
- please read the ReadMe file on the shipping Director 6 CD.
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