Session 1

What we will learn

Open director & create new movie About Director Basics Create a new Director file Import a graphic image Create & modify text Display images on Screen Change opacity of displayed objects Create an animation Play an animation

NOTE: Rename the Director Courseware folder on your desktop (your name-Director) Now double click the Director Icon to run the program & watch the overview about the interface with the instructor Open Director File 1. File menu> Open> your name-Director/going into/lesson1/complete/Artist.dir 2. Display the stage window, use the shortcut Ctrl + 1 3. Play the movie by clicking the play icon in the main toolbar & watch

Creating a new Movie 1. File> new Ctrl + N 2. Select the stage window 3. Setting the stage size follow the steps go to the property inspector select the movie tab then set the size 4. PI> Movie tab> 640*480 5. Save your new file in (your name-Director) folder with name ( my first movie), Ok Import an image NOTE: You can import most of the images types such as Bmp, GIF, JPEG, TIFE, PICT, Photoshop 1. 2. File menu> Import Ctrl + R your name-Director/going into/lesson1/Media/ArtistStudio.TIFE press Add button Import Choose the image options from the dialog then press Ok you find out the image shows up in the Cast window

Adding Sprites to the Stage

1. Click on frame 1 inside score window 2. Drag the cast member Artist.TIFE from the cast window to the score window channel 1 frame 1 3. Inside the score you see your cast member shows like a sprite from 1:30 frame Notice: when you drag the cast member to the score it locates on the stage center

What will happen if you drag the cast member to the stage window?? 4. Save your movie, press Ctrl + S shortcut Creating Text cast member

Choose window menu> Text Ctrl + T or use the A icon in the main toolbar to open the text window Inside the text window 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. select the Time new Roman font Bold style 36 size Type Ideas Come to Light Adjust the margin to be all in one line Re-Name the new cast member y-txt Highlight the text then change the foreground color to yellow Now copy the text by using the shortcut Ctrl + C Click on the new cast member on the text window icon Use Ctrl + V shortcut to past the text Now change the text color as we done before to red Then re-name the cast member to R-txt Repeat steps from {7 to 11} to create another text with blue color, then close the text window

Now you have 3 new cast members in the cast window, save you movie Adding Sprites to the score 1. Drag cast member cast member 2 y-txt to frame 1 channel 2 in the score To Adjust the sprites on the stage on the stage 2. Position the y-txt to the stage upper left corner 3. To fix the white background , go to the PI> sprite tab> and change the Ink from the list choose background transparent

Change the sprite Duration 1. Make sure you still select one of the text sprites or even all of them 2. Then go to the PI> sprite tab> then change the end Frame to 10 press ENTER key on the keyboard OR you can just adjust the sprite end from the score by simply dragging the end Notice: you have to press the enter key after any changes you inter in the Numeric field to be executed Exchange technique Now we need to do the same to the other cast member text (put them in score, same position on stage then adjust the background & duration) to avoid repeating all the staff we use Exchange command follow the steps 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Inside score make sure you select the y-txt sprite Copy the sprite, by using the shortcut (Ctrl+C) or RC on the sprite & choose Copy sprites Go to frame 11 channel 3, & past the sprite by using (Ctrl+V) Again go to frame 21 channel 4, past the sprite by using (Ctrl+V) So now we have 3 sprites of the y-txt to fix that Make sure you select the second y-txt sprite in 11 channel 3 Go down to your cast & select the R-txt cast member Now go up to the main toolbar & choose the Exchange Icon Again make sure you select the third y-txt sprite in 21 channel 4 Then go down to your cast & select the b-txt cast member Now go up to the main toolbar & choose the Exchange Icon Now play & watch then save your movie

Notice: you can copy & past sprites by Right click on the sprite & choose copy/ past Sprites command