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Product Description Director 6 for Macintosh: VQS teaches all of Director's core features, showing readers how to arrange multimedia presentations, animate text and graphics, and add full-blown interactivity to custom software. This new edition has been thoroughly revised for Director 6, covering all new basic techniques for creating animation, tools and special effects in the Paint window, cast member types, score channels, techniques for arranging frames and cells in the score, scene transitions, changes to how Director processes color, and upgrades in sound processing. In addition, there will be revised chapters on using QuickTime movies with the Digital Video window and converting Director movies across platforms using Xtras, third-party plug-ins that make Director more useful and customizable, an expanded Lingo chapter, and using Shockwave. Amazon.com Review Director 6 for Macintosh offers beginning and intermediate computer users a useful introduction to the Mac version of Macromedia's Director 6 multimedia authoring program. Author Andre Persidsky offers step- by-step instructions throughout the book, explaining how to create your own movies using Director's sprite-animation, paint, text, sound, and digital-video features. You also get an introduction to the more difficult aspects of Director, including such issues as working with color, transitions, and tempo; making stand-alone movies; using Lingo, Director's scripting language; using Xtras, which are add-ins for extending Director; and working with the program's new built-in drag-and-drop behaviors. A Windows version of the book is also available. From the Back Cover Director 6 for Macintosh: Visual QuickStart teaches all of Director's core features, showing readers how to arrange multimedia presentations, animate text and graphics, and add full-blown interactivity to custom software. This new edition has been thoroughly revised for Director 6, covering all new basic techniques for creating animation, tools and special effects in the Paint window, cast member types, score channels, techniques for arranging frames and cells in the score, scene transitions, changes to how Director processes color, and upgrades in sound processing. In addition, there will be revised chapters on using QuickTime movies with the Digital Video window and converting Director movies across platforms using Xtras, third-party plug-ins that make Director more useful and customizable, an expanded Lingo chapter, and a chapter on using Shockwave.