ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0
User Guide
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You can have as many RealMedia streams and cast members in your Director movie as you want, as long as you play
them consecutively. This version of Director does not support playing multiple RealMedia cast members concur-
rently.
RealMedia video
The RealVideo portion of your RealMedia file is rendered offscreen, and there is no Direct To Stage option. This
means that you can layer other sprites on top of your RealMedia sprite. For example, you might do this if you want
to display text across the RealVideo as it plays. You can use Lingo or JavaScript syntax elements to jump forward or
backward in the stream, or grab the current frame of the RealVideo stream and use it as a texture for a 3D object.
RealVideo is fully integrated into the graphics capabilities of Director, and you add RealMedia cast members
containing RealVideo to a movie just as you would add any other cast member. The RealVideo content begins
playing when the playhead reaches the frame containing the RealMedia content, unless the
pausedAtStart
property of the sprite or cast member is set to
TRUE
.
RealMedia audio
You can have the RealAudio portion of your RealMedia cast member processed in one of two ways: by Director (the
default) or by RealPlayer. Your choice depends mainly on whether you want to use Lingo or JavaScript syntax sound
elements.
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If you use Director to process RealAudio in your movie, use Lingo or JavaScript syntax sound methods and
properties to control and manipulate RealAudio, including mixing RealAudio with other Director audio. However,
all RealAudio is played in a single sound channel. If you inadvertently overlap RealMedia cast members in the Score,
and the second RealMedia cast member begins to play before the first cast member is finished, the second cast
member’s sound is played in the same sound channel as the first cast member. This occurs even if you have assigned
a different sound channel to the second cast member. If the RealMedia cast members do not overlap, they are played
in the sound channel specified. (If you do not assign a sound channel to a RealMedia cast member, the RealAudio is
played in the highest available sound channel.)
For more information about working with Director audio, see the Scripting Reference topics in the Director Help
Panel. For information about using standard script sound elements with RealMedia content, see
Using Lingo or
JavaScript syntax sound elements with RealMedia
.
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If you use RealPlayer native audio to process RealAudio, all script sound elements and the audio property in the
Property inspector are ignored. Enable RealPlayer native audio by setting the
realPlayerNativeAudio()
method
to
TRUE
. This method should be executed in a
prepareMovie
event handler in a movie script. This is a system-level
method that you can set only by using Lingo or JavaScript syntax, so you must set it before the first RealMedia cast
member is encountered in the Score, which causes Director to load the RealPlayer engine. Once the RealPlayer is
loaded, changes to this method are ignored.
For more information about this method, see the Scripting Reference topics in the Director Help Panel.
RealMedia stream playback
In Director, RealMedia playback occurs at the cast member level, not the sprite level. Therefore, if you have two
sprites of a cast member, and you apply a method or property to one of the sprites, the method applies to both sprites.
For example, if you select the Display Real Logo check box (or call the corresponding
displayRealLogo
script
property in a script) for one of the sprites, the Display Real Logo check box is automatically selected for both of the
sprites, and the RealNetworks logo is displayed when either sprite plays. This is true for all methods and properties,
not just the
displayRealLogo
property.
