XML101 Streaming Multimedia for the Web Director 7 Internet Studio by Tom Connell Macromedia's Director has long been the standard for authoring sophisticated, multi-layered, interactive multimedia presentations. Many Web authors have yearned to incorporate similar capabilities on their sites. Macromedia has responded by expressly repurposing the latest version of Director. Director's authoring paradigm is theatrical. Here's a typical Director movie - one of the tutorial files supplied with the program.
Action takes place on a resizable window called the Stage.
Once invoked, they're stored in a library from which you can access and freely modify all their properties. The ones you designate for a particular movie reside in an Internal Cast window. The Score is where you orchestrate your casts' behavior over time. Anyone who has used an audio sequencer such as Cakewalk or multi-layered graphics programs like PhotoShop will be in familiar territory. Action plays out at a rate of up to 999 frames per second, so extremely smooth and complex animations are possible.