Special Edition Using Macromedia Director 8.5 [With CDROM]

by Gary Rosenzweig

This manual discusses how to use the multimedia authoring platform, Macromedia Director 8.5. With the release of Director 8.5, Director enters a whole new realm that includes three-dimensional... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 078972667X
• ISBN13: 9780789726674
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Que
• Length: 1080 Pages
• Weight: 9.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 7.5" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

An Outpouring of Information

Weighing in at about one-thousands pages, this book has some of the best information for practical production techniques and getting things done in Director. Having compared it to a half dozen or so other books before purchasing, it was the only one to truly address Lingo in a serious way. There seems to be a hole in the market since a few Lingo specific books that had been available at one time (from O'Reilly and another from the defunct Hayden Press) are either out of date or out of print.Though its a heavy application, most of director is not that hard to learn (being proficient and artistic is another matter). But taking it to the next level requires an understanding of Lingo and integrating it into the rest of the programs features for practical use. Mr. Rosenzweig has done this, and with great enthusiasm and love of subject. It is an excellent book and the most advanced one that I could find on the shelves last year.The beginner should take heed that this may be overwhelming, for all others I highly recommend it.

Learn Director 8.5 FAST !

Great book ! ( I just received my copy of Using Director 8.5 "Specialedition") It is really great for me since I haven't been using Director since version 5, and so much as changed !I have been browsing through the book to get the missing or forgotten info I need to get our project up, and I have found almost every answer I need in the first 15 minutes ! I am confident this book will get me back up and running in no time, If you want to learn Director Fast, Buy this book !

SE Using Macromedia Director is an awesome book!!!

This book is probably the best book you will ever find on how to use Director. I read it without knowing anything about programming and i am pretty advanced now. If you feel that you are a really slow learner and/or you have no experience using a computer, don't try to learn anything about director. If, however, you are a motivated student, Gary Rozensweig will teach you from the ground up about this ultra-powerful program. For 36 dollars, it's almost a must. This book will also be great for advanced director users as a reference. get it quickly. The only drawback of this book is the fact that one of the most important appendices is almost totally missing(publishing error). There is a downloadable version of the appendix on QUE's site (HTML & PDF). Don't let this tiny glitch stop you from owning the best book on director out there!!!

What? Only five stars available?

This is a fantastic book for people that want to learn Director from scratch. It assumes you know nothing of the program to begin with, and it guides you to mastery, one step at a time. I would heartily recommend this book to programmers that have never worked with Lingo before, but look for a book that covers more or less everything. The book presents numerous examples of applications, that will little more effort can look very professional. Six chapters offer complete applications (games, educational apps, business, grafx and sound apps) that can really help you start rapidly. Excellent appendices complete this already full book.Of all the programming books I have bought, this one has won its place just by the monitor - a rare honour. Whenever I am programming Director, this is a reference I must have handy.I have recommended this book to all my students, as I recommend it to you! Congratulations Mr. Rosenberg!

Excellent

Im only part way through this book and have learned quite a bit. I definetly recommend it for anyone who wants to learn EVERYTHING about this application while getting up and going in a short amount of time.