- Paperback: 1216 pages
- Publisher: Macromedia Press; 1 edition (31 July 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0201709201
- ISBN-13: 978-0201709209
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 17.9 x 6.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,514,022 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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When a book calls itself an "official guide" to something, readers inevitably get a little sceptical. But when you're dealing with an application as big as Macromedia Director, an official guide is actually a welcome sight. Director 8 Demystified offers a much-needed road map to the latest version of the multimedia content creation tool, and as the officially sanctioned guide, it offers a complete rundown of the new program.
Written in part by the author of Director 7 Demystified, and the author of the official Director 7 and Lingo Authorized, this new book provides insight from a pair of experienced users, developers, and writers. Broken down into three well-illustrated main sections (four, if you count the one that contains appendices, references and glossary), this massive volume starts with the basics of using Director and then digs deeper into Lingo, scripting, handling multiple movies and Shockwave. Book Three, "Special Topics", goes into lengthy discussions on debugging, troubleshooting, using digital audio and video and Xtras.
Sidebars with tips, important points to remember like compatibility issues, pointers to chapter numbers where a mentioned topic was previously discussed, and most importantly, new or changed features in version 8 appear frequently throughout the book. Although there are also plenty of exercises and examples, more project-based tutorials would have been welcome, especially something on large projects. Content, media management, and handling large content backups aren't dealt with in enough depth either.
Director 8 Demystified is an almost mandatory book for the serious Director user. Comprehensive, thorough and filled with code snippets and examples, it should be bundled with Director itself. --Mike Caputo
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There's no mystery to unleashing the creative powers of Macromedia Director. All your students need is the latest edition of this best-selling guide. Updated to cover Director 8's features and its one-click Shockwave publishing capabilities, Director 8 Demystified includes a CD-ROM with tutorials and sample scripts. Before your students can yell, “Action!” they'll be creating streaming, multiuser content for presentations, CD-ROMs, and the Web, using text, graphics, animation, video, and sound.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have used and recommended earlier editions of this book for my courses on Multimedia programming at degree level in MM degrees. The Director 8 version is as good if not better than earlier editions. Not only do I use it as a teaching reference, but I continue to use it as a professional developer.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I considered myself to be fairly adept at Director and was wondering why I would need this book.
I never regreted it.
Everything you ever wanted to know about the ins and outs of Director are easily accessable in one single book. I wouldn't dream of using Director now without it! The tutorials are quite easy enough to do, but it is the latter stages where the this comes into it's own. Every piece of Lingo script you could possibly imagine is here!
Brilliant.
Format:Paperback
Even though I now use Director MX, I still usually turn to this book, even though it relates to an earlier version. Its explanations are clear, information is easy to find and it comes (or should come) with a very useful CD containing royalty-free effects and sound files along with sources for all the demos shown in the book.
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