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Director basics overview

Macromedia Director 8 Shockwave Studio is the tool of choice for legions of Web and multimedia developers. With Director you can create movies for Web sites, kiosks, and presentations, as well as movies for education and entertainment. Movies can be as small and simple as an animated logo or as complex as an online chat room or game. Director movies can include a variety of media, such as sound, text, graphics, animation, and digital video. A Director movie can link to external media or be one of a series of movies that refer to one another.

Your users view completed Director movies in one of two ways:

| In the Shockwave movie format, which plays in Shockwave-enabled Web browsers. Millions of Web users already have the Shockwave player on their computers, browsers, or system software. Others have downloaded Shockwave, which is free, from the Macromedia Web site.
| In a projector, which plays on your user's computer as a stand-alone application.