MACROMEDIA DIRECTOR MX-USING DIRECTOR MX, Use Manual

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To find a cast member in the Score:
1
Select a cast member for which to search in the cast or the Score. If you select a sprite that
includes multiple cast members, Director searches for the first cast member in the sprite; to
select a cast member other than the first, open the sprite to select the cast member. (For
information on selecting sprites, see “Selecting sprites” on page 158.)
2
Select Edit > Find > Selection, or press Control-H (Windows) or Command-H (Macintosh).
Director searches the Score and highlights the first Score cell it finds.
3
Select Edit > Find Again to find the next occurrence of the cast member in the Score.
Importing cast members
Importing lets you create cast members from external media. You can either import data into a
Director movie file or create a link to the external file and re-import the file each time the movie
opens. Linked files let you display dynamic media from the Internet, such as sports scores,
sounds, and weather pictures, which makes downloading movies faster. For more information
about linked files, see “About linking to files” on page 149.
Director can import cast members from almost every popular media file format. See “About
import file formats” on page 149.
You can import files by using the Import dialog box, dragging files from the desktop to a Cast
window, or using Lingo.
To import cast members and specify import options:
1
In Thumbnail view, select an empty position in a cast.
If no cast position is selected, Director places the new cast member in the first available
position in the current cast in Thumbnail view. In List view, Director places the new cast
member at the end of the list.