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production, Each
Director is based on the metaphor of a theatre project to be created
thought of as a movie, with a cast of characters, a script, a scorea stage and a in a Director
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author), The cast member may be any media element like sound,
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sound, video,
image, text and the director (you,
The list of media elements that appear in the
information about
movie
when
can be viewed in the cast
and where each of the window. The buttons etc
window in Director contains cast members score
on the Stage. appears
The Director User interface is designed around a movie metaphor. Each project you crests
thought of as a movie. In Director, the Cast window is where you view the list of media
appear in your movie. elements tha
As with a real movie, each Director movie has a score. However. the score of a Director
contains more than just music. The Score describes the action that happens in the movie. AllmoviE.
action inaDirector movie takes place on the Stage.
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termns used in Director are:
The
Movie-Themovie is a Director file, It contains one or more cast windows and a
score window.
isthe list of allthe cast members that are used in a
Cast- The cast movie.
Member-MMember is a
single element of the cast and it can be
bitmap, text, sound, digital video,
hapebutton
etc.
Score-Scoreis swindow which contains intormation about all the members that are placed on
thestage.
Frameis aninstant of time in Director.
Frame-
e- A keyframe 1s a rame n wncn you can change the properties of a sprite. These
íramesarerepresentedby smallcircles in the SCOre.
The number of frames per second of graphic content that are drawn to the screen.
position in the Score. The Score window has 1000 channels
Channel- A channel is a numbered
Special Effect Channels.
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Spriteis
is aadescription of the member, its location in the score, its position on the Stage etc.
Sprite- distributed to the end users. It runs the Director movie without
that is
Projector- Itiss a program
software.
requiringthe Director calculate a new value in between two known
Tinear Interpolation - To interpolate' means to
When you animate objects on the Stage and set the key positions of a sprite, Director
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the sprite moves from one keyframe to
omnutes the in-between (tweened) points to determine how
the next.
Director.
Lingo- The built-in scripting language for