Macromedia Director MX and Lingo: Training from the Source

Macromedia Director MX is the latest version of its flagship multimedia authoring environment. Used for building rich, interactive content and applications deployed on CD/DVD-ROM, kiosks, and the Web via Macromedia Shockwave Player, the software will release in December for $1,199 ($399 for users upgrading from versions 8.0 or 8.5). More than 335 million Web users have already installed Macromedia Shockwave Player, which will continue to support and play Macromedia Director MX projects. New Macromedia Director MX product features include: seamless integration with the Macromedia Flash MX product family, the streamlined Macromedia MX user interface, Mac OS X support, and major new workflow efficiencies. For more information, go to www.macromedia.com/go/director/. Based on the curriculum developed and tested for use by Macromedia's authorized trainers, Macromedia Director MX and Lingo: Training from the Source provides a series of project-based, hands-on tutorials designed to introduce readers at their own pace to all the key concepts and features of this latest release. Topics include: animation, sound, video (including allowing the user to play video using interactive controls), Lingo programming, debugging movies, creating projectors for delivering content on CDs, creating Shockwave content for the Internet, and more.