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Introducing the Director workspace

When creating and editing a movie, you typically work in five key windows: the Stage, the Score, the Cast window, the Property Inspector, and the Control Panel.

The Stage

If the Stage is not open, choose Window > Stage.

The Stage is the visible portion of a movie on which you determine where your media elements appear.

During authoring you have the ability to define the properties of your Stage, such as its size and color. As you work on your movie, you can use zooming to make the Stage either larger or smaller than the original movie, while also scaling the coordinates for the Stage objects. To align objects on the Stage, you can choose to display guides and grids or use the Align window.

To scroll around the Stage, do one of the following:

| Use the scroll bars. (To show or hide Stage scroll bars, choose File > Preferences > General and select or deselect Show Stage Scrollbars.)
| Select the Hand tool from the Tool palette, then drag inside the Stage to reposition the visible portion.
| Bring the Stage to the front, hold down the Spacebar to temporarily switch to the Hand tool, then drag inside the Stage to reposition the visible portion.