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Introduction to Macromedia Director MX 2004
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| Price: |
$99.00 |
| Business Focus: |
Web Graphics & Multimedia |
| Instructor: |
James Gonzalez |
| Course Code: |
dir |
| Delivery Method: |
Instructor-led Online Course |
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| Course Overview: |
Learn Macromedia Director MX 2004, the world’s leading multimedia production tool, to create sophisticated and compelling presentations for a wide range of situations and needs. Create high-impact applications for distribution on CDs, corporate intranets, kiosks, the Web, and more.
Combine text, graphics, audio, video, and animated elements to create dazzling interactive presentations, even if you're completely new to the world of multimedia and animation.
This six-week course is designed for beginners with little or no experience with graphic or animation programs. However, if you are already using PowerPoint, Flash, or HTML, you will learn skills for adding sparkle and impact to your existing projects.
You will learn powerful multimedia techniques such as how to add reliable audio playback to a Web page and how to prepare digital video for optimum playback. You'll learn how to sequence computer graphics to create basic animations and how to link Director productions to the Internet or compress them for playback in a Web browser.
The course will also cover how to add user feedback and other interactive capabilities. In the process, you’ll learn each of the four stages of a multimedia project: planning, prototyping, authoring and testing. The course concludes with a handful of handy testing and debugging techniques for keeping your projects running smooth and trouble-free.
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| Instructor Biography: |
James Gonzalez, M.S., has taught Macromedia Director for over 13 years to students of all ages, backgrounds and ability levels for colleges, corporations and public schools throughout the country. James has developed and taught courses in both online and traditional formats, typically supplementing his classes with a rich variety of multimedia learning resources including video tutorials, course Web sites, and instructional CD-ROMs. Through the years, he has picked up a variety of teaching tools and techniques for helping students make the most of Directors’ unique features and capabilities.
When not teaching, James keeps his Director skills honed by providing multimedia consulting, training, and technical production services to a diverse clientele of both small and large organizations. Recent Director projects include: a kiosk-based marketing presentation for a project management firm in San Francisco, a series of interactive online courses for the E-Learning division of a large Silicon Valley technology firm, an animated interface for a Brazilian Web site and a CD-ROM-based marketing presentation for a European glass importing firm.
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| Course Syllabus: |
| Lesson 1 Syllabus |
Introduction to Director |
| Lesson 2 Syllabus |
Assembling Media Elements |
| Lesson 2 Objective |
Learn why Director is the leading multimedia development tool. |
| Lesson 3 Syllabus |
Sprites and the Score |
| Lesson 3 Objective |
Check out Director's major components, including the Cast window, the Stage, and the Score. |
| Lesson 4 Syllabus |
Creating Basic Animations |
| Lesson 4 Objective |
Apply the concepts from Lesson 2 by creating a quick and simple Director movie. |
| Lesson 5 Syllabus |
Creating More Advanced Animations |
| Lesson 5 Objective |
Explore Director's Property inspector. |
| Lesson 6 Syllabus |
Adding Audio and Video |
| Lesson 6 Objective |
Use the Score to create basic animations. |
| Lesson 7 Syllabus |
Adding Interactivity with Behaviors |
| Lesson 7 Objective |
Create more-advanced animations with film loops and audio and video media. |
| Lesson 8 Syllabus |
Using Text |
| Lesson 8 Objective |
Utilize behaviors to add interactivity to movies. |
| Lesson 9 Syllabus |
Advanced Interactivity with Lingo Scripting |
| Lesson 9 Objective |
Incorporate text into movies. |
| Lesson 10 Syllabus |
Publishing Projects to Shockwave |
| Lesson 10 Objective |
Understand Lingo and write simple scripts. |
| Lesson 11 Syllabus |
Refining and Debugging Movies |
| Lesson 11 Objective |
Prepare and deliver Shockwave movies. |
| Lesson 12 Syllabus |
Distributing Movies as Projectors |
| Lesson 12 Objective |
Get into memory management and finding and fixing problems. |
