Director 11 transitions

Does anyone know of any transition xtras that will work with Dir 11 and higher? All the ones I can find top out at MX2004. It would be a shame if none of those were never upgraded. Unfortunately the default transitions with Director are rudimenatry at best.
I'm really looking for a nice fade between two sprites. I've used Billenium in the past but that only goes to MX2004
Anything?
Mike M
Dir 11, Win Vista Ultimate

Not so much an Xtra as a way through Lingo to create custom transitions:
http://collab.directorforum.com/SlideShow_with_custom_transition
... and there's a bunch of transition castlib packs there as well... the big benefit is that it saves on relying on Xtras which may not be supported in the next release of Director if the Xtra developer doesn't update them.

Similar Messages

Transition from Director MX to Director 11

I had a program in Director MX that worked perfectly. I
converted it to Director 11 and it works fine within the
application, but when I create a projector to run it by itself. I
get a script error that does not come up when I run it in the
program. My guess is that it has something to do with my file i/o,
but that is just a hunch. I get the following error message when I
first start the program "Director Player Error. Symbol Expected.
<Void>. Script Error. Continue?" I am not sure how to debug
this since there is no debugger, once you have made it a projector,
and it works fine within the Director 11 application program.
Please help advise how I can make this work. Thanks, Janet

JanetMZ wrote:
> Thanks. That worked. Does this mean that I do not need
to include the Xtras file when I distribute the program? Your help
has been wonderful. - Janet
That is correct. The Xtra is packaged inside of the
executable. The
trade off is that your projector will launch a little slower,
because
Director needs to unpack the Xtra into a temp directory
before launching.

Still no crossfade in Director 11

In more than ten years have the creators of Director not been
able to provide a decent crossfade transition. It is hard to
believe that even in Director 11 the transitions panel has been
left untouched. It looks like Director 4.
Of course I know how to write my own transitions in Lingo,
but why should I have to do that? It makes the code and interaction
unnessesarily awkward. Any cheap slideshow software comes with
crossfades!!!

A so called crossfade is really just a fade from something
into the new stuff; you don't need to 'splice' the two. Actually
that will just look strange midway, with two semi opaque parts
revealing the Stage colour underneath.
Fading isn't especially processor intensive for one sprite,
but if you have a lot of elements (sprites) on your stage, it is a
challenge to fade them all. Also for you: extend 40 random sprites
and alter their keyframes - huh?
With imaging Lingo you can for instance take a screen grab of
the current stage and store it as a new member in the cast. Attach
this image to a single sprite that covers all other elements (i.e.
top of stack / bottom of score). Move to the new location, and then
fade out the single sprite, which will reveal the new content
underneath in a smooth fashion. This is much easier for you and the
processor as well.
Here is one way to do it:
1. On the navigation button for screen "A", attach this:
on mouseDown me
myImage = window("stage").image
member("stageimage").image = myImage
end
on mouseUp me
go to "B"
end
2. Create a 'dummy' graphic member called "stageimage". Put a
small rectangle in it. Unerneath your screen "B" in the Score
(where you want to navigate to), drag it directly into the Score;
not on to the Stage. This will keep it centered. The sprite channel
should be higher than any other elements in "B"; in my example #10.
3. Create a Scorescript where screen "B" starts (you don't
need additional cells for the fade from "A" at all), and put this
in:
on enterFrame me
if sprite(10).blend > 1 then
sprite(10).blend = sprite(10).blend - 2 --the last number
determines the speed of the fade
else
sprite(10).visible = false
end if
end
on exitFrame me
go the frame
end
Remember the difference between visible = 0 and blend = 0;
the latter will only make the sprite opaque but it will still be
functional as a button for instance. It will also cover any button
functionality underneath! You don't want that here. A sprite with
visibilty turned off (0 or false) will disable it and also let
buttons underneath work as expected. So after the sprite with the
image from screen "A" has reached opaque, it is turned completely
off too.
If the jump from A to B occurs several times (possibly), you
should attach this to the sprite that fades:
on beginsprite me
sprite(me.spritenum).visible = 1
end
It will ensure that it is always ON and visible before each
new fade.

Weird Crash due to Pattern Transition

I have wracked my brain over this issue recently, and I wonder if anyone else encountered this problem. I am running Director 11.5 (build 596) on a recent MacBook Pro. Director crashed on me reliably after I imported a previous movie from a G4 Powerbook running MX 2004.
Tracing the problem down, I noticed that a "Dissolve Pattern" transition was the culprit whenever I set the transition time to 0.25 secs or faster. At 0.3 secs and up the movie ran fine.
As Macromedia/Adobe had not been able or willing to provide an easy crossfade transition in the 15 years since I began using Director, I used a Pattern Transition instead which had never given me any trouble until Director 11.5.
It would be interesting to know if anyone can reproduce the problem. In case you wish to try, I added the movie "crash_test.dir", a simple slide show consisting of two pictures that you switch by pushing the left or right arrow key.
Maybe this saves someone the 15+ hours I already wasted on this issue.

Your file was crashing for me too on Windows XP,5,1,148,2,Service Pack 3 and D11.5.0.596 as soon as the playhead hit the first marker. I fixed this by moving the frame loop onto the next frame (after that in which the transition was occurring). My guess is that looping on a frame containing a transition was provoking the crash.
The next problem I needed to fix was the keyDown -> navigation, which would take me back to the same transition depending on which key was pressed. This was also provoking a crash, though why drawing a transition between the same picture would cause this I have no idea. In short, your file is fixable but I think you've found a bug nonetheless.
FWIW I reproduced your file in D10 and if either of the conditions above are true it also crashes, so this isn't a new bug.

Expanded Directories and includes

I have a couple of questions here:
          1. To my knowledge, there are 3 different ways to deploy to WL 6.0:
          a. copy and paste your expanded directory to the
          config/<domain>/applications directory.
          b. copy and paste your expanded directory to the
          config/<domain>/applications/DefaultWebApp_<server> directory.
          c. package your directory as a .war file and place in the
          config/<domain>/application directory.
          Are all of these correct?
          2. I have two directories, util and login. I want to include a file from
          util in a JSP in the login directory. How would I go about doing this? The
          following statement does not seem to work:
          <%@ include file="../util/PageInit.jsp" %>
          If the 3 deployment methods in question 1 are valid, is the syntax
          for the include above the same for all?


Thank you for responding. I'm sorry the issue was unclear. I have an iMac and OS 10.7.4 allows several different desk tops to be utilised, one visible at a time. I also have an 'apple magic mouse' which allows me to slide one desk top left or right and move to another. Really neat and for applications lets me run them on different desk tops if I want. However the problem I have is odd and not really connected to this. Examples would be, if I wish more info on a file I select the file right click and select get info, or if I wanted to open my main drive (icon on desk top) I again select right click and select open, however I don't get anything displayed on any of the desk tops available. However as I slide the current desk top to left or right, as soon as it begins to move all that I have tried to open the disc directory or the info on the file appear but only during the transition. As the current desk top movies away and the new one in I loose the additional inf I've called up. Can't freeze the extra material and can't access it during the transition? I'm sure it's something I' ve set up (or failed to set up), but not sure where to start. Any suggestions.

Systemd transition vfat mount error

i transitioned over to systemd on one of my laptops, and now im running into a problem that i cant seem to solve
on /dev/sda6 its a shared(dual boot) home drive on a vfat partition (ntfs), right after converting to systemd, it fails to mount.
[FAILED] to mount /home
[DEPEND] dependence failed for local file systems.
i ahve no way of copy and pasting fstab but ill type it out here
tempfs /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid 0 0
/dev/sda2 /boot ext2 defaults 0 2
/dev/sda4 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda6 /home vfat defaults 0 2
#note i tried pass 0 also on /dev/sda6
i have installed dosfstools but not sure how to use it
the first error in journalctl -xb regarding this issue is as follows
Mounted /boot.
boot.mount has finished starting up
the start-up result is done
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda6
missing codepage or helper program or other error
home.mount mount process exited, code=exited status-32
FAT-fs (sda6): bogus number of reserved sectors
FAT-fs (sda6): cant find valid FAT filesystem
Failed to mount /home
Unit home.mount has failed
The result is failed.
Dependency failed for Local File Systems
I think this "bogus number of reserved sectors" has been there since initial installation about 6 months ago, but since upgrading to systemd, its becoming a fatal problem, whereas before when in initscripts it wasnt an issue.
I tried runing parted, but couldnt see any problems, and didnt know where to go from there. It is an MBR type table.
I am able to run my network connection from maintenance mode, and install what i need to. I was able to get past the maintenance mode and get the system to boot up by running
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda6 /home
but when i do that i get an empty home drive
The funny thing is when i am in maintenance mode, i can access the home drive no problems. So it is mounted.
Last edited by wolfdogg (2013-02-03 21:42:44)

this was great info, thanks for that. it really looked promising to me, and it led me to trying things i have not tried before, and taught me a few new things. However, no matter what i try i cant get the users home directories mounted properly on ntfs. Its probably over the top for me to reach into the AUR and and add another program to solve a problem that's getting over complicating to solve what deceivingly seems to be a rather simple issue. so i tried your examples of fstab every other way without bind, i even installed what i thought was bindfs, under the name 'bind', all i got to say for that is oops, it installed (Berkeley Internet Name Domain). As far as the taboo of mounting users homes to ntfs, i am able to reconfigure my system at anytime after i achieve this, but for right now i would rather go through the pains of mounting the user directories residing on sda6 than i would to reformat the drive to another file system type that wont be accessible to windows. this is mainly for a learning experience, to try it on for size, and to realize for myself why i would or would not want this in the next build.
in the mean time, what i tried hasn't work, i have only been able to use the ntfs file system as root, and not able to alter the permissions at that. looking at my fstab below you can see what i am trying to accomplish, the 'miker' entry has dmask and fmask entries from a root test just to see what it will yield, so ignore that one, but the last 2 entries of users are the way i would like it to be. can i accomplish this using fstab without having to install bindfs through the AUR?
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid 0 0
/dev/sda2 /boot ext2 defaults 0 2
/dev/sda4 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/dvd iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide,iocharset=utf8 0 0
#/dev/sda6 /home ntfs-3g agid=users,dmask=022,fmask=133 0 0
/dev/sda6 /mnt/ntfs ntfs-3g auto,dmask=022,fmask=133 0 0
#/mnt/ntfs/miker /home/miker ntfs-3g auto,uid,1002,gid=users,dmask=022,fmask=133 0 0
/mnt/ntfs/liaml /home/liaml ntfs-3g auto,uid=1002,gid=users,umask=027 0 0
/mnt/ntfs/ellal /home/ellal ntfs-3g auto,uid=1001,gid=users,umask=027 0 0
as you can see, the fstab wont work because /mnt/ntfs isnt a block device, but its just where i gave up and am asking for more ideas...
Last edited by wolfdogg (2013-02-07 06:40:21)

Director MX 2004 and Flash Actionscript 2

Can anyone show me how to program director MX 2004 to run a
few Actionscript 2 programmed .swf (not frame-by-frame programmed)
in a row?

Rob,
Thanks for your replay. Here is what I want to do:
I have a Flash animation all done in Actionscript to playback
a few slides with title and description. The pictures are loaded in
the .swf runtime and the location of the pictures, duration,
transition, and text attributes are controlled by external XML.
Since this is all done with Actionscript, the Timeline is not
really an indication of real time (like in frame-by-frame
animation). How can I program Director to play the whole Flash
animation and stop when done?
How can I upload a test file to you to illustrate what I'm
talking about?

Weird structures in tonal transitions under ACR 4.1

Greetings,
I switched to ACR 4.1 recently and found that 4.1 (as opposed to, say, 4.0) creates weird microstructures in gradients and tonal transitions. They are clearly visible when image is oversharpened, but do affect the image even with proper sharpening.
Here is an example. Windows XP, Photoshop CS3, Canon 20D, ISO 1600. The image has been converted with noise reduction luminance=50, color=50. With ACR 4.0 the sharpening was set to 100 (yes, I know, that's not the proper setting) and with ACR 4.1 Amount=100, Radius=1.0, Detail=25, Masking=0.
This is ACR 4.1 conversion: http://www.kaax.org/pile/Microstruct/20050430_0168_microstruct_ACR41.jpg
And this is ACR 4.0 conversion:
http://www.kaax.org/pile/Microstruct/20050430_0168_microstruct_ACR40.jpg
These are 100% crops of a small part of the original image and show an out-of-focus edge of a dark object against a light background. Raw file is available upon request.
My impression is that overall the ACR 4.1 does a better job of dealing with high-ISO images -- the conversion is cleaner and smoother. But -- and this is a big BUT -- the tonal transitions areas suffer from this microstructure that ACR 4.1 introduces.
With many images this is not a big deal -- if you downrez a full frame for screen display or, say, print a 5x7, the microstructure disappears or fades below the perception threshold. But for some images -- in particular, ones that are printed large or heavily cropped and then oversharpened by design -- for such images this problem makes ACR 4.1 effectively unusable.
I would appreciate comments as to whether this microstructure is here to stay with future releases of ACR or it's an early-implementation artifact and will be fixed soon.
Kaa

Jeff, post #13> You cant' mean it!! Prints, prints, only prints, always full frame, 300dpi, 1200 dpi, no crops, no enlarging....
Where do you live? Photoshop family is sold for these purposes only? Please visit the real world, reality is so much different...
As I wrote in another forum:
I work as an art director/designer and in my workflow it is not an exception to use 100% crops for on-screen art, small part of images for prints or, on the other hand, mere 30 dpi images for large media. As a matter of fact, this is very common. Many shots are presented on screen at 100% too. I'm perfectly aware these differences wouldn't show in a 300dpi print, but unfortunately 300dpi prints of full frame images are about 20% of my output.
Every pixel counts. Even though Kaa didn't mention loss of detail, I have to... I made this simple test: I made ACR 4.0 conversion of iso 100 image, scaled it to 70% then back up to 100% and applied basic sharpening filter. Then I compared it against 4.1 conversion (layer over layer). Even then the twice resampled 4.0 was better and I would choose it right away (against the fullres 4.1). Of course it depends on individual image, but new algorithm's splotches are killing many megapixels of my camera's resolution. And I can't turn it off.
There ARE losses in detail, there ARE nasty structures (in natural textures and bokeh especially) and it IS an issue in real world situations.
Concerning the noise (which is probably the origin of all those new changes): If the noise is captured, it should be converted. If one wants, one will remove it after that in proper tab. Remember, Adobe products are Pro products. In future CS4, will we have healing clone tool only? It is so much more sophisticated then the old Clone stamp, isn't it? Will there be default noise reduction when saving psd? Or what?
Stop talking about prints only and not being important what you see at 100%, please.
4.0 quality with 4.1 functionality would be great. Adobe, don't fix what isn't broken. Thank you
Ivosh

Sugestions for Director 12

(hope someone in Adobe reads that)
Before its too late
1 Make life easier for tlash users who want to make some 3d,
add to Director only ONE more languages:
ActionScript2 ( AS3 sux )
2 game lybraries game lybraries game lybraries
3 a better IDE, dont even have to create a new one, copy the
flex one
4 help files with WORKING EXAMPLES
Adobe please never forget your market is NOT the old Director
users but the flash users that want to make some 3d but would
rather user papervision(bleargh) tham Director

I came across an interesting article by Colin Moock (good
Actionscript book author) regarding the controversy around AS2 vs
AS3; one and a half year after its release AS3 is still
controversial and not widely accepted among Flash developers. Moock
does some fine myth busting (by comparing AS1/AS2 vs AS3 line by
line showing that it isn't that different), and while he himself is
definetly an AS3 'fan', he also puts Adobe on the trial: has Adobe
killed multimedia??!!! Then he does a division which is what I
think is relevant in this discussion about Director as well: there
is the TOOL and there is the LANGUAGE. While AS3 is an enormous
improvement over AS2 is in its consequence and strict logic, this
is mostly to the benefit of engineers; not designers. While it is
fine that for instance ‘buttons’ now is an object like
any other, this/it requires a level of abstraction that is
irrelevant for the designer. Irellevant, irritating, disturbing;
hence counter productive. It is not that designers are stupid, but
this is not what they should use their intellectual resources for
anyway. Even if conceptually brilliant, you should not need to
write five lines of code for simple navigation. The solution
(inspired by Moocks article) is not to reintroduce or cling to old
ways, but to make things like simple naviagtion available in the
TOOL. This division makes sense to me, and I hope it will be
possible to keep these things separate when we discuss the future
of Director as well. Generally Director has been better off than
Flash. Originally our app had plenty of ‘visual
programming’, for instance pauses and transitions directly in
the Score, but this has been downplayed and not improved upon. In
Flash you can’t access individual Layers, while in Director
the Sprite is of course identical to the channel/layer, and
it’s a good thing. We also have had drag & drop
behaviours for simple navigation and such stuff for quite a long
time, but again: this needs to be done even better, so that it is
obvious that this is the right way and the best way. Do not open a
script window – for c&#% sake – for a simple
‘go to’!
Whether Lingo needs imporvement, or be exchanged with
something else, is another debate. I like Lingo, and for me it has
offered a fine gradual transition into more complex programming.
Whether Lingo offers ‘real’ or ‘fake’ OOP
is a moot point for +90% users; you don’t use any of that
anyway when you make a portifolio disk for a client.
As Moock also states, designing a good ‘tool’ is
not an easy task. From what I’ve read about the development
team in India, they seem to lack a deep understanding of what
Director is and needs to be. I don’t blame them, but if
they’re left alone in their development without interplay
from a strong reference group of actual users, I’m not too
optimisitic on Director’s future. Adobe seems to have killed
multimedia – for the time being – by letting Director
drift away, and while Flash is gaining popularity and kudos among
Java developers et al for AS3, the disperancy between that and the
visual environment most people actually is working in is becoming
larger; from a crack to a shaft. It's amazing that they're letting
this happen.

Problem bei transition

Hi.
We have a problem with transition effects
When some transition is started , the screen begins to
rapaint and in this
moment I change to another application through ALT-TAB the
transition loops
unendlessly and the look of director-Application window is
very "unclean"
(buggy repaint). When I change again to Director app, its
window repaints
correctly and everything works fine. How can I avoid this
situation?
Thanx in advance
Jorg

Have you disabled the animate in background projector option?
If you have to run in background some lingo script, perhaps
calling a
function in the free version of buddyAPI xtra can determine
when the
projector is in background, jumping to a non transition frame
to avoid
the artifact.
You can determine of the current frame has a transition ( the
frameTransition?) perhaps jumping to the following frame if
at a
transition.

Alternative to Director

So I'm getting the feeling the Director is on it's last legs, and realize I need to move on.
I'd like to move on to a development platform that can create desktop applications (and ability to create mobile apps is a big bonus!).
I'd love if the learning curb was easy (especially when it comes to the required language to learn, platform interface).
I'd also like to make sure there is some stability to the future of the platform.
I'm hesitant to go to Adobe Flash/Air, since it's Adobe, and well -- you can see what has happened to Director.
Any success stories on such a transition?
Thanks

The only other suggestion I say on that link was RunRev: http://www.runrev.com/
I guess I'm wondering if anyone on here has made the switch to that or any other platform, and how their experience has been.
I love Director too - I am so frustrated, annoyed and saddened by the slow death Adobe are giving it. So like you I've been looking into alternatives - Flash and Air provide some scope, but can't be considered alternatives: Flash can't access the local file system, whilst Air needs to be installed to the local file system and can't run from removable media (or not as far as I can tell, anyway!). And, as you say, we Director developers have been so badly let down by Adobe that it becomes a significant factor when deciding what tools to invest time and money into in the future.
So, I've been looking at RunRev too (or "LiveCode" as I believe they have recently renamed it), and have had the good fortune to talk to someone who took the plunge from Director to RunRev / LiveCode some time ago. From what I can tell the language is very close to Lingo's verbose syntax, and many built-in statements and keywords are the same. Indeed, it is so close to Lingo that I wouldn't be surprised if the development team behind RunRev / LiveCode is made up of the Director development team who Macromedia got rid of shortly before selling to Adobe (and whose loss has left Adobe all-at-sea in trying to make the product work properly).
Where it differs (as I understand it) is that it isn't built around the concept of animation (which is where Director started out life), and so despite the lack of dot-syntax code, it is actually a very powerful coding platform, with features that take it way ahead of Director.
Like Director, RunRev / LiveCode allows for "RAD" (Rapid Application Development), and the scripting language is non-compiled so, like Director, you can test and debug code "live" within the authoring environment.
I'm going to be doing some deeper exploration of RunRev / LiveCode over the coming weeks and will endeavour to report back to the forum on what I find.

How to launch a program from Director?

Hi, I'm new to Director.
I want the user of my Director movie to click on a button
that launches Adobe Acrobat and a help file (external to the
Director movie).
How do I do this?

I have a similar question... can Director be used to launch a
program? I understand that you can tell it to open a file, in which
case the default application is automatically launched, but can you
give it a specific command line to execute?
I have SCALA MM200, and it can execute command lines from
within Windows, but as I recall it wasn't a very seamless
transition between the presentation and the launched program. I
hesitate to keep using MM200, since it was designed for Win 98/NT,
but rather than buy new software it might be best to stick with
what I've got if it still works under XP.
Seems to me a lot of current "multimedia" software is great
for animations and presentations, but there's little consideration
for creating a true GUI with it that will do stuff outside of the
presentation itself. I suppose I should go with VisualBasic or
something like that, but my programming days are 20 years behind
me, and there's still the issue of buying new software (unless VB
is free, which I doubt).
I plan to try MM200 under XP, but if it doesn't work, or
doesn't perform quite as I'd like it to, it would help to know that
Director could work. However, if there's no way to execute a
specific command line, it probably isn't the right choice for me.
A quick summary of my planned application is to present a
menu of choices to the user, and then execute certain programs
depending on the choice. The presentation will probably hide in the
background while these programs run, so another consideration is
avoiding any conflicts. The programs are video game emulators, and
certain options are set in the command line, so simply telling
Director to open a game file may not work, even if the emulator is
set as the default application to open that file. I'll still need
to pass certain command line switches to the app, and I'm not sure
I can do that in Director.
Thanks in advance for any help! :) (I never visit the forum,
so it's best to e-mail me at [email protected])

Slight brightening of screen before new credits and scene transitions -- Blu Ray Export

Hey friends ---
I have an annoying problem and is one of those things that isn't 'glaring' which makes it difficult to find a straight, easy answer to.
After exporting my premiere pro cs5 timeline to bluray mpeg2 and authoring/burning it through encore, I am noticing a VERY annoying 'flicker' or 'brightening' of the black screen right before a new opening credit and even after scene transitions during playback of the final burned bluray disc. It's as if the screen brightens slightly one frame before the new credit or during the first frame of a new shot. Very annoying, and yes, it is subtle but it is very strange -- and whats worse is that it's not consistent. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't!
Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
My source footage is from a canon 7d, 1920 x 1080p -- film shot at 24 fps. I am burning on BD-R bluray discs and am using my Playstation 3 for playback.
I've attached my bluray exporting settings --- maybe someone knows what's happening here and can help out ?
Thank you very much !!
Sincerely,
-Mark

It's probably your TV. Dynamic contrast features on television are usually the culprit. If you can find and disable the setting for "dynamic contrast" (or something similarly worded) then check it again, that should solve it.
Dynamic contrast isn't terrible when it's implemented more subtley. Larger and more expensive HDTVs usually handle it well. Smaller HDTVs (36" and under, usually 720p sets) are surprisingly bad at this.
It's not a bad thing...it can bring out details in dark scenes and handle highlights better in bright scenes. Generally speaking, the HDTV uses this function to compensate for the shortcomings of the LED/LCD/Plasma screen.
However, if you want constant contrast (to see a movie exactly with the sort of contrast intended by the director, and avoid possible artifacts) then you turn this setting off on your HDTV.
Keep in mind, this isn't something you can control for the end user. It's a hardware setting on HDTVs and is pretty universal (which is why you see things like "1,000,000,0000:1 contrast ratio!!!!!!")
If that doesn't turn out to be your issue, then hopefully someone else can shed some light on it. My bet says this is the problem.

Transitioning between MediaPlayBack

I have three frames set up with each one containing a
MediaPlayBack component. On the first frame i have a button that
says to jump to frame 3 to play that Media. on that frame. My
problem is that the second component on the second frame acts as a
transition between 1 and 3 when the button is pressed on 1. It of
course skips it when pressed. It looks like cuepoints are my best
bet but I am not too familar with how to set them up. I have to use
the MediaPlayBack component to contain the FLVs.
Any other techniques or solutions would be helpful.

Howdy,
You may want to check out Impressario from Integration New
Media. I've used it for several years--works well--and they have
just released an upgrade for Director 11. Their URL is www.inm.com.

Dean on Director - Podcast

Hi all,
Skip, host of the Director Podcast, announced the latest
episode on the
Basics and Lingo Director forums but here. The episode had an
interview
with me and I did mention 3D
Podcast can be found at:
http://director.magicgate.com
regards
Dean
Director Lecturer / Consultant
http://www.fbe.unsw.edu.au/learning/director
http://www.multimediacreative.com.au

Hello,
Overall a great comparison and fun to listen to. Cool tune in
the middle.
Really the only point I disagreed with was calling video a
tie. Can you make
a video player that will play almost any type of video with
flash? No.
Transitions weren't mentioned? I don't know if you can use
them in Flash or
not. Just the nice fade, which you can't do very well in
Director on PC. We
do a lot of high-end presentations where powerpoint won't do,
so transitions
are important to us anyway.
Thanks for the podcast!
Timm
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