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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.