Director and viedo cue points

In what formats After Effects can export cue points recognized by director?
Thanks.

Richard,
Thanks for your reply. I know I need a listener to activate
something when a cue point in my FLV is reached, it's just that
I've never written the code for a listener before!
If I can explain further what I intend to do...
I will have an FLV called "advert01.flv" with a cue point at
the very beginning called "start" being played in a FLVPlayback
component with the instance name "ad_playback" . When the cue point
"start" is reached (straight away) I want a dynamic text field with
the var name "ad_description" to display some descriptive text.
Would my code go along the lines of...
ad_playback.onCuePointListener = function(){
if cuePoint = "start"{
ad_description="The advert is playing and is funny";
...or am I a million miles from getting it right?
Thanks for your help.

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