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You will learn in this lab: • How to use the three most important windows in Adobe® Director®: the Score, the Stage, and the Cast windows. • Stage properties. • Score properties. • Create, edit and manage frames

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Creating cast members • In the Cast window, click the Cast button and select New Cast from the menu.

• In the New Cast dialog box, type a name for the new cast.

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Creating cast members • Specify how to store the cast: 1. Internal Stores the cast within the movie file. 2. External Stores the cast in a separate file outside the movie file. • Click Create.

Adobe Director Creating text cast members in the Text window • Select Insert > Media Element > Text. • Enter text in the Text window. • Select size and font.

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Exercise • Create 2 groups of cast members ( external and internal ) • For the internal cast add three members: 1. Text ( Hello): size 40, green color, Tahoma font. 2. Text (Everyone): size 30, blue color, Tahoma font. 3. Text (Enjoy your day): size 50, red color, Arial font. • For external cast add three members: 1. Blue circle as vector shape. 2. Green circle as vector shape. 3. Red circle as bitmap element.

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Using the score • The Score provides a view of the movie’s timeline. • The Score organizes and controls a movie’s content over time in rows called channels • The columns of the Score contain frames. A frame in a movie represents a single point in time. Frame numbers are listed above the columns in the Score.

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Using the score the channels in the score window are as follows: • Tempo channel: Tempo is the number of frames per second that Director tries to play. You can control tempo by using the Score tempo channel. Director tempo settings control the maximum speed at which the playhead moves from frame to frame. • The palette channel in the Score determines which palette is active for a particular frame in a movie. • Transition channel: a transition always takes place between the end of the current frame and the beginning of the frame where the transition is set.

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Using the score Others channels in the score Are: sound channels, behavior channels and sprite channels. tempo channel pallet channel transition channel sound channels behavior channels

sprite channels

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Using the stage • The Stage is the part of a movie that your users will see. You use the Stage to determine where media elements (cast members) should appear onscreen. • The Stage includes an offstage canvas area within the Stage window but outside of the active movie area. This canvas area is useful for assembling your sprites, either before or after they appear on the Stage. • To place the sprites in the stage, simply drag the cast member to the position on the stage and a copy of that member will be created.

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Exercise • Set the score to 40 fps • Make this scenario: 1. In the first 5 frames show text(Hello) and the green circle 2. In frames between 5 to 30 show text(Everyone) and the blue circle. In this period the green circle must be appear and disappear in a sequential manner. 3. In frames between 30 to 60 show text(Enjoy your day) and the red circle. And in this period the red circle will disappear in frame 40 and appear again in frame 41 to the end of the movie.

Adobe Director Exercise • Change the fps to 10.

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