Making "Movies" with Director 4

November 1994--Berkeley, CA--Like a DeMille production, Director "movies"
can have casts of thousands, all carefully orchestrated and coordinated by
this powerful multimedia tool that has become the authoring software of
choice in the industry. In Director parlance, a "movie" is any multimedia
piece created in Director. It could be animation or an interactive movie,
a marketing presentation or a technical simulation. It could even be a
full-scale commercial production such as an entertainment tide for CD-ROM.
Why, the possibilities are nearly as limitless as the director's
imagination. Director 4 for Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide gets
readers up and running with the software faster than they can say,
"Lights! Camera! Action!" This latest version of Director offers
cross-platform capability with the newly introduced Windows version.

Director 4 for Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide teaches the fundamentals
of using Director as well as the features new to this version. Readers
learn how to animate text and graphics, use different Paint capabilities,
alter color palettes, use sound, set scene transitions, add interactive
controls to the movie, and much more. Like the other books in the Visual
QuickStart series (more than 600,000 copies of these books are currently
in print), Director 4 for Macintosh consists primarily of illustrations,
with text playing a supporting role. It is organized as a reference rather
than a tutorial so that readers can quickly look up information on a
particular tool or function.

Co-author Helmut Kobler is a producer of interactive multimedia software
and a writer. He authored Peachpit Press's The Little Mac Word Book (1992)
and has written for magazines such as Macworld, Publish, NeXTWorld, and
Publishers Weekly. A programmer and a freelance technical writer,
co-author Andre Persidsky is the creator of Preset Chess, a new chessboard
invention.

Price: $18.95,  Size: 200 pages, 7" x 9", ISBN: 1-56609-138-1

Peachpit Press
2414 Sixth St, Berkeley, CA 94710
800-283-9444,  510-548-4393,  fax 510-548-5991

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