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Controlling color

Choosing colors for movie elements is as simple as making a selection from a menu. To make sure that the colors you choose are displayed correctly on as many systems as possible, it helps to understand how Director controls color.

Director provides a variety of color controls. The following list describes the most important:

| Use the Movie tab in the Property Inspector to change modes for selecting colors. The modes are RGB values or palette index.
| Also use the Movie tab to turn on the Remap Palettes If Needed option, which causes Director to either dither or remap colors in bitmap images to the best available colors. If the option is off, Director assumes that all bitmaps use the movie's color palette and does not perform remapping or dithering, regardless of the settings for individual cast members. See Setting Stage and movie properties.
| Use the pop-up Color menu to choose colors for movie elements. The Color menu is available throughout the Director application—for example, in the Tool palette.
| Use Transform Bitmap to remap bitmap images to new palettes and change their color depth. You can also make the same changes when you import a bitmap. See Changing size, color depth, and color palette for bitmaps, and About importing bitmaps.
| Use the Score's palette channel to change the movie's color palette as a movie plays.
| Use the Color Palettes window to change the colors in a color palette or to create a custom color palette cast member.