Dean's Director FAQ
Another FAQ exists at
MediaMacros, which
is new and extensive.
Multimedia Design
1. Where can I see examples of good multimedia design
and use of Director?
Performance
1. How can I maximise
the performance of my Director movies on the widest range of computers?
2. What are the real minimum system requirements
for a basic Director presentation to play on a ‘standard’ computers of today?
Cross platform and CD-ROM development
1. Can I create a Mac
projector on a PC or a PC projector on a Mac?
2. How do you burn a Hybrid CD (that works on
both a Mac and PC)?
3. How do you make a CD automatically start when
placed in the CD-ROM?
Projectors and Display options
1. What is a stub projector
and why should I use one?
2. How do you get rid of the black border around
the Stage when playing a movie as 'full screen'?
3. How do you get projectors to resize to play
full-screen (fill the monitor)?
4. How can I change the icon for my Director
projector?
5. When I create a projector using the options
In a Window and Show Title Bar, the name in the title bar
is the same as the projector's file name. Is there a way to change the window's
title bar text without renaming the projector?
6. How do I prevent users from starting 2 (or multiple) instances of a projector?
Director and the web
1. How can I make my shockwave
small in file size?
2. Is it possible to save an Director Movie as an SWF
file?
3. How can I send an email from Director?
4. How can I open a HTML page on a local drive or CD?
5. When would you use Director instead of Flash and
what are the advantages of Director over Flash and vica versa?
6. How do you tell Director to wait until a Flash sprite
is finished playing?
7. How can I export 3D files as flash members for
use in Director?
Lingo
1. Why don't my scripts
work?
2. How do I write
a script for a screensaver and then convert my Director movie into one?
3. How can I write
generic scripts?
4. What does the 'me' in scripts mean?
5. How do I write a simple behavior with parameters
that I can set like the ones in the Behavior Library?
6. What standard cursors can Director use via Lingo?
7. How can I create my own custom cursor?
8. What are the keycode for all the KEYS including
F1 to F12?
9. What's the difference
between all the types of variables available? Often people seem to use global
and property variables interchangeably, what are the advantages of using
one over another?
Images
1. What is colour depth
and palettes and how does it all affect my Director movie?
2. Why do some images sometimes get a "Halo" when
set to background transparent on a dark background?
3. What is an alpha channel?
4. How can I import a vector based in EPS or Illustrator
into Director?
Text
1. How can I get my text
to display exactly the same as I move between Windows and Macintosh platforms?
PDFs
1. How can I use a pdf with
Director?
Video
1. How do I record and edit
video?
2. How do I get MPEG to play in Director?
3. What is the best video format to use in Director
- AVI, QuickTime or MPEG?
4. What compression and settings are recommended?
5. Is there any way to protect my videos?
6. How do I add cue points to a QuickTime movie?
7. How can I detect if the user has QuickTime installed?
8. Can I package the QuickTime installer with my application?
9. How do I create QTVRs? Can this be done with Director?
What software is available?
Sound
1. How do I record and edit
sound from CD?
2. What programs can I use to insert cue points into
my sound?
3. What is the best format for Director and how long
can my sound be?
4. Why does my sound not work?
5. How do I convert sound into SWA?
Tutorials and resources
1. Tutorials and Director
info site links
2. Games info links
Databases
1. How do you use a
database with Director?