Director 6 Authorized (Macromedia Press Series)

By Frank Elley

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201696290
• ISBN13: 9780201696295
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Peachpit Pr
• Length: 369 Pages
• Weight: 3.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 1.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Good content and depth, complicated enough to be satisfying.

MacroMedia Director is a fairly intricate application to learn. This book does a good job of describing both Mac and PC commands, as well as presenting step by step instructions to get started. The examples and included media are good for getting started while providing a satisfying product for the time spent. Sound and video clips are good examples of how to keep a multimedia document to a manageable size. A few of the visual examples show stage and picture sizes of 8 to 16 bit, where our Pentium II computer was giving 1 6 to 32 bit in the same place, but this did not seem distracting while trying to learn. I would highly recommend this book to someone who wants to learn Director (and Lingo) thoroughly and on her own!

Great for Director Neophytes

If you are completely new to Director (any version) like I was, you will get a lot of value from this book by the people who wrote the software.The book assumes no prior knowledge of Director and introduces the self-paced student to most of Director's elements. I have completed the first book in this 2-book set (2 complete books in one binding) and am in the middle of Lesson 4 of the Lingo book.I purchased the book before getting my own copy of Windows Director 6 and found the Demo version invaluable to start learning Director. The limitations of the save-restricted version were minor and I fully recommend this book for new users.Director users that have experience with a prior version or alternate platform will find this book too basic. Both books are NOT exhaustive references on every Director feature and Lingo command. While "Director 6 AUTHORIZED" is a great introduction, most Director developers will want to add other Director books to their shelves.

An outstanding instruction manual for Director 6.

I have used this book teaching Director 6 to university students in Multimedia Authoring class. None of the students had any previous experience with Director, but within 3 weeks they were extremely comfortable and knowledgable about it. The hybrid Mac/Windows CD that comes with the book has a save-disabled version, and is perfect for students who want to work on the tutorials outside of class, sometimes on a different platform. The class has responded enthusiastically to using this book as a very practical text. The Lingo section provides more advanced lessons for those who want to take control of the stage and cast through scripting.

An excelent book that is very worth while.

Diretor 6 Authorized is an excelent book to learn Director. The lessons are consise and yet thorough. The teaching method used, "learning by doing", is the only real way to learn Director. This book facilitates this learning in an excellent way. However, if you don't have your own copy of Director 6, the limited version that you get on the CD that comes with the book, is highly insuficient. As I haven't yet bought my own version of Director 6, I can't complete certain lessons because of missing elements in the CD's version. For example,the Director 6 that comes with the book,has no behavior inspectors. This realy limits you from realy getting to know Director 6 and it's functionality. I had to find someone else with Director 6 and use their computer. Other than this, I highly recomend this book for those who are self-learners, and for those who may be teaching a class about Director or multimedia in general.