Integrate Director Movie into Flash CS5
Hi,
I have couple of interactive media pieces created in Director MX 2004. I would like to know if the latest Flash CS5 can handle
Director Movies. Kindly advise the best way to create a portfolio (consisting of Dorector and Flash Movies) that can be showcased in a website
as well as in a CD-R.
Also, a tutorial or direction to creating an Adobe Director website whereby the swf movies can be integrated would be useful.
Any direction would be appreciated.
Thank you
You cannot place a Director file inside a Flash - you can put Flash into Director, but not the opposite.
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-MithunAs I may have mentioned in the other thread where you asked this, No. You can not. You can import a flash swf into Director but you can not import anything from Director into Flash.
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any way. Best
you can do is launch the Director executable from the Flash
movie, though
how you do this depends on which version of Flash you are
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My short Q, which I suspect is a FAQ though it doesn't appear
on the Director or Flash FAQs on the Macromedia (sorry, Adobe ;-))
site, is: how can you import Director movies (source .dir, or
published .dcr) into a Flash movie?
I had thought this would be simple, that Flash would have an
import filter for Shockwave movies, as after all both products come
from the same stable and you can import .swf movies into Director,
but not so, at least in my copy of Flash 8. Neither can Director
export as a .swf - the only export format that might just work is
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reuse a snippet from a Director movie. I did a quick Google search
for DCR->SWF converters but couldn't see anything obvious to
use.
The reason I'm bothered about this is that we've produced a
lot of e-learning material in Director (a good third of our
learning objects at
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/nursing/sonet/rlos/rlolist.html
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occasionally we want to be able to reuse snippets from Director
movies in Flash movies. It would be disappointing, to put it
mildly, were we not able to move content between software
applications produced by the same company...
TIA for any answers/suggestions.
Cheers
Fred
School of Nursing, University of NottinghamI feel your pain an don't know what's going to happen with
Director now that Adobe is involved.
You mentioned that you could export as avi, could you copy
the scenes in which you want to use into a new director file,
export that as an avi and conver t that to an flv?
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