MACROMEDIA DIRECTOR MX-USING DIRECTOR MX, Use Manual

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Using Shockwave Player 593
You can specify streaming options any time before saving a movie as a Shockwave movie.
Note: If you want to test how a movie will stream from a server before you save the movie as a Shockwave
movie, use File > Save and Compact to make sure the data in the movie is properly ordered and that redundant
data is removed.
To set movie playback options:
1
Select Modify > Movie > Playback to define streaming options.
2
To stop the movie from streaming, deselect Play While Downloading Movie.
3
To make the movie wait for all media elements (internal and linked) for a specified range of
frames, enter the number of frames in Download __ Frames Before Playing.
By default, movies download the first frame only. Adjust this setting to the number of frames
that is best for your movie.
4
To make the movie display placeholders for media elements that have not been downloaded,
select Show Placeholders.
The placeholders appear as rectangles when the movie plays.
5
To lock the movie to its current tempo settings, select Lock Frame Durations. See “Locking
frame durations” on page 269.
6
To make the movie pause when its window is deactivated, turn on Pause When
Window Inactive.
To set Shockwave playback options, see the next section.
Setting Shockwave playback options
To view Shockwave movies, your users must have the Shockwave player, which comes preinstalled
on many computer systems. The player is also available for free downloading from Macromedia’s
website at www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/.
The Shockwave player includes a volume control and a standard context menu that appears when
a user right-clicks (Windows) or Control-clicks (Macintosh) a movie. You can select specific
playback options to include for your users when you save your movie as a Shockwave movie.
Shockwave movies loop by default. To cause a Shockwave movie to play only once, add the
Hold
on Current Frame
behavior to the last frame of the movie.