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Macromedia Director MX and Lingo: Training from the Source | 
 enlarge | Author: Phil Gross
Publisher: Macromedia Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 483485
Media: Paperback
Pages: 920
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 7.7 x 1.8
ISBN: 0321180968
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.7869
UPC: 785342180961
EAN: 9780321180964
ASIN: 0321180968
Publication Date: May 5, 2003
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Product Description
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.
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 Obligatory book for Director's apprentices August 27, 2007
Frederico Bueno (Rio de Janeiro, RJ Brazil)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
When I decided to learn about Director I knew it would demand a lot of time and the best references I could get, as we all know Director is not for the faint of heart. Based on that, I got myself two DVD training courses and three books: The Director MX2004 Bible, the Visual Quickstart Guide and this Training from the Source. I can honestly say this one has the best didactic of all. It's the only one I was able to read from cover to cover, and we're talking about a 800+ pages book. The author takes you on a great ride with simple to complex examples and, in the end, you got yourself all you need to start working with Director basically and even intermediately. After that, it's all about in-depth research through more specific task oriented materials, forums, etc. Too bad the book wasn't updated to the MX 2004 version but unless you rather use Javascript than Lingo, you won't miss much.
In a short line, buy this one for sure and consider any other as a complement to your Director learning!
ok lets be serious April 24, 2005
O. Hinostroza (New York)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Okay i cant lie, this book helped me out during my noob years while learning Director. Its not for the hardcore users that already have a great and powerful background. If your new to director mx then this is for you no questions ask. It teachs all the basic stuff that you will need to understand how director works.
knowing about director lingo's May 7, 2004
raghu (karnataka,india)
1 out of 12 found this review helpful
which book can i refer to learn lingos from the scratch
do i get a book with tutorials samples
Director December 27, 2003
Mavromatidis Ioannis (Stockholm, - Sweden)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I found this book to be exactly what I needed to get started with Director. I had very little background with flash/shockwave, etc, and this book helped me get the start I needed. The lessons were easy to follow with clear and concise directions. I would recommend this book to anyone trying to learn Director!
 Plenty of information but could be better organised December 17, 2003
John Harpur (Trim, Meath, IRELAND)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
There is a lot of information on Director here, but rather less on Lingo than the title suggests. The CD accompanying the book has several 'bonus' chapters, a feature which I thoroughly dislike. Files for the various projects are also on the CD - a feature I do like rather than looking up a website.The book is packed with Director tips and techniques and is as good as is available for Director. However, despite all this information, no coherent design philosophy is put forward in the book to help developers. This is a definite shortcoming. Set against that, the projects are interesting in the main, so you can extrapolate. The section on video control in Lingo is very interesting but too short to get into more meaty topics. Bizarrely the chapter on Director and the web is on the CD. The chapter on databases and lists is useful, but limited, and will appeal to programmers in particular. There is a chapter on animation using an 'arm' which is too long winded and really could do with a technical tweaking. The embeddability of 3D models is covered in a hit and miss fashion. For instance the chapter on Director 3D is on the CD. I am reasonably positive about this book but I got the feeling that the author was upgrading an earlier version. From an educational perspective, the organisation of chapters and their goals is not ideal. However, there are really very few good texts on Macromedia products around. This is a very reasonable and sustained effort. At some stage it would be very useful if Macromedia actually listened to what their customers are looking for in instruction manuals. Until then, this type of book will dominate the market. Competent but not great.
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