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Phil Gross, Jason Roberts
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Pages: 1216 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0201709201
Pub: Macromedia Press
Pub date: 2000-08-09
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 409035
Editorial Review:
When a book calls itself an "official guide" to something, readers inevitably get a little sceptical. But when you're dealing with an application as big as Macromedia Director, an official guide is actually a welcome sight. Director 8 Demystified offers a much-needed road map to the latest version of the multimedia content creation tool, and as the officially sanctioned guide, it offers a complete rundown of the new program.
Written in part by the author of Director 7 Demystified, and the author of the official Director 7 and Lingo Authorized, this new book provides insight from a pair of experienced users, developers, and writers. Broken down into three well-illustrated main sections (four, if you count the one that contains appendices, references and glossary), this massive volume starts with the basics of using Director and then digs deeper into Lingo, scripting, handling multiple movies and Shockwave. Book Three, "Special Topics", goes into lengthy discussions on debugging, troubleshooting, using digital audio and video and Xtras.
Sidebars with tips, important points to remember like compatibility issues, pointers to chapter numbers where a mentioned topic was previously discussed, and most importantly, new or changed features in version 8 appear frequently throughout the book. Although there are also plenty of exercises and examples, more project-based tutorials would have been welcome, especially something on large projects. Content, media management, and handling large content backups aren't dealt with in enough depth either.
Director 8 Demystified is an almost mandatory book for the serious Director user. Comprehensive, thorough and filled with code snippets and examples, it should be bundled with Director itself. --Mike Caputo
Reader Reviews:
Everything you will ever need. (5/5 people found this helpful)
I considered myself to be fairly adept at Director and was wondering why I would need this book.
I never regreted it.
Everything you ever wanted to know about the ins and outs of Director are easily accessable in one single book. I wouldn't dream of using Director now without it! The tutorials are quite easy enough to do, but it is the latter stages where the this comes into it's own. Every piece of Lingo script you could possibly imagine is here!
Brilliant.
Excellent both for beginners and on-going reference (7/7 people found this helpful)
I have used and recommended earlier editions of this book for my courses on Multimedia programming at degree level in MM degrees. The Director 8 version is as good if not better than earlier editions. Not only do I use it as a teaching reference, but I continue to use it as a professional developer.
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