Director 7 Demystified: The Official Guide to Macromedia Director, Lingo and Shockwave

by Jason Roberts, Phil Gross

Macromedia Director is the #1 platform for creating interactive multimedia. Its power and versatility are unmatched, allowing users to merge text, graphics, animation, video, and sounds to create exciting, interactive desktop movies for use in presentations, CD-ROMs, and the Web. Although it's organized around the somewhat familiar metaphor of a film production, with cast, stage, scripts, and so on, Director is not known for its ease of use. Director 7 Demystified steps in to guide readers through the maze of sub-technologies (Lingo and Shockwave), technical skills, and creative concepts that they must master in order to tap the power of Director 7. Ideas are fully explained, then put into practice in the accompanying exercises. The included CD gives readers many of the tools and scripts they need to try out their new skills. The only book on Director to be endorsed and recommended by Macromedia, Inc., Director 7 Demystified brings you training from the source.

1184 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

Jason Roberts is a writer of nonfiction and fiction. His most recent book is Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life. His previous book, A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History’s Greatest Traveler, was a national bestseller and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. A contributor to McSweeney’s, The Believer, and other publications, he lives in Northern California.