Macromedia Director 7 Other Enhancements Director 7 also includes a number of improvements that are not Internet-specific. Director also supports faster event processing. For example, you can loop a movie at 999 frames per second, to guarantee that you don't miss the click of a user's mouse input. The visual quality of a Director movie is better than ever, thanks to new import filters, support of alpha-channel transparency, and Shocked fonts. Director can now import QuickTime 3, animated GIFs, and Macromedia Flash movies.
Director can also import rich text documents and HTML text.
Though Director parses HTML with enough intelligence to maintain links and formatting, it can't preserve the page layout, tables, or frames. But for truly sophisticated effects, the result is worth the overhead. Find out how. ZDNet and ZDNet logo are registered trademarks of ZD Inc. Content originally published in Ziff Davis Media publications is the copyrighted property of Ziff Davis Media. Ziff Davis Media.