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Director 8 tutorial overview

You're about to see how easy it is to master basic tasks necessary to create a movie in Director 8. With a few more simple steps, you can add multiuser functionality to a movie and export the entire project for distribution. By completing this tutorial, you'll learn Director fundamentals and acquire a basis for exploring more advanced Director features.

For the tutorial, you'll create a movie that plays in the Web page of an organization called GardenChat. You'll also take advantage of Director's multiuser behaviors to add chat functionality to the site, allowing members of the organization to discuss gardening tips with each other in real time.

The tutorial assumes no prior knowledge of Director other than the information provided in the Guided Tour. You should, however, be familiar with basic computer operations such as using menus and selecting and dragging objects. The tutorial takes approximately two hours to complete, and it focuses on many Director processes, including the following:

| Creating a new movie, cast members, and sprites
| Using inks
| Creating animation using tweening, frame-by-frame animation, and blends
| Importing media
| Synchronizing sound
| Attaching behaviors
| Controlling streaming over the Web
| Publishing your movie for Web playback

If you haven't watched the Guided Tour in Director Help, you should do so before starting this tutorial. The Guided Tour will introduce you to Director terminology and provide an overview of Director features.