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Finding cast members

You can search for cast members by name, type, and color palette. You can search for selected cast members used in the Score, such as when you are preparing a movie for distribution. You can also search for cast members not used in the Score—for example, to clean up a movie and reduce the space and memory required to save and run the movie.

Before releasing a movie, it's a good idea to remove unused cast members to make the movie as small as possible for downloading.

To find cast members:

1 | Choose Edit > Find > Cast Member.
2 | In the Find Cast Member dialog box, choose a Cast window to search from the Cast pop-up menu.
| To search every cast in the movie, select All Casts.
3 | Choose a search option:
| Select Name and enter search text in the text box. For example, to search for a group of related cast members that share a common element in their names, you might enter the word Bird to search for cast members named Bird 1, Bird 2, and Bird 3.
| Select Type and choose an option from the pop-up menu to search for cast members by media type.
| Select Palette and choose an option from the pop-up menu. You can use this option to search for and resolve palette conflicts.
| Select Usage to locate all cast members that aren't used in the Score. Note that cast members found with this option may be used in the movie by a Lingo script.
| Director displays the found cast member.
4 | Do one of the following:
| Choose a cast member on the list and click Select to close the dialog box and select the cast member in the Cast window.
| Click Select All to close the dialog box and select all listed cast members in the Cast window.

To find a cast member in the Score:

1 | Select a cast member to search for in the cast or the Score. If you select a sprite that includes multiple cast members, Director searches for the first cast member in the sprite; to select a cast member other than the first, open the sprite to select the cast member. (For information on selecting sprites, see Selecting sprites.)
2 | Choose Edit > Find > Selection or press Control-H (Windows) or Command-H (Macintosh).
| Director searches the Score and highlights the first Score cell it finds.
3 | Choose Edit > Find Again to find the next occurrence of the cast member in the Score.