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Director MX Basics Tutorial 55
View the completed movie
You can view a completed version of the tutorial movie to become familiar with how your
finished movie will appear.
1
Launch Director and select File > Open. Within your Director MX application folder, browse
to Tutorials/Basics/Finished and double-click the Basic_finished.dir file.
2
If windows obscure the Stage, drag them out of the way.
3
To play the movie, click Play along the bottom of the Stage, or select Control > Play.
Note: The group of controls along the bottom of the Stage is called the Control panel. By default, the Control
panel is attached to the bottom of the Stage. You can turn it into a floating panel by detaching it from the Stage.
For more information about the Control panel, see “The Control panel” on page 21.
4
Use the buttons in the movie to navigate from one scene to another and control the playback
of the video clip.
The movie consists of three scenes. The first is a title scene that contains buttons for navigating
to the other two scenes. The second scene is an animation of a sunset. The third scene
contains a digital video and buttons that control it. Each of these scenes also contains
navigation buttons.
5
When you finish viewing the movie, either click the Stop button on the Control panel, or
select Control > Stop.
Open the tutorial movie
To begin the tutorial, you’ll open a partially completed Director (DIR) file.
1
Select File > Open and browse to your Director MX application folder. Open the Tutorials/
Basics/Start/Basic_start.dir file.
Note: When you open this file, Director will close the Basic_finished.dir file you explored in the previous section.
If you made any changes to that file, do not save them.
2
Select File > Save As and name the file My_Basic_start.dir. Save the movie in the Start folder.
Making a copy of the file lets you or another user complete the tutorial again with the
Basic_start.dir file.
Volume
Play
Stop
Rewind