The Director 11 Multimedia Software for Windows from Adobe is a multimedia authoring tool aimed at professional users. Director lets you build content that integrates audio, video, bitmap graphics, vector graphics, fonts, and more. You can easily deploy the content on CD, DVD, or corporate networks. Director is an excellent choice for creating and packaging all kinds of digital content.
Features:
Enjoy Robust, Flexible Authoring
Support for more than 40 video, audio, and image file formats - Enjoy the flexibility to incorporate content in virtually every major format, including SWF; DVD-Video and other video formats; as well as the broadest range of audio and graphics formats, including bitmaps, vectors, text, and 3D.
Apple QuickTime 7 support - Take advantage of QuickTime features, including support for streaming MPEG-4 video and MP3 audio.
Enhanced Script Browser - Save time working with script-sensitive movies using the enhanced Script Browser, which provides click-and-script convenience; easy access to information about functions, events, keywords and commands; and a complete Lingo and JavaScript dictionary.
Sprite and Channel naming - Assign custom names to sprites and manipulate them easily without altering existing code. Move sprites and channels without modifying code, reducing scripting and editing time.
Projector publishing panel - Reduce the time required to publish Director applications by saving projector settings on a per-project basis.
Extend your capabilities
Easy multi-version output - Broaden your market reach by authoring once and publishing across platforms and technologies with support that ensures your application is customer-ready for virtually all computers, kiosks, DVDs, CDs, and the web.
Easy cross-platform projector publishing - Publish your applications for Universal Macintosh and Windows desktops with a single click.
Adobe product line compatibility - Take advantage of the easy workflow between Director 11 and the Adobe applications you already rely on, including Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Flash, and the entire Adobe Creative Suite 3 family of products.
Full JavaScript support - Expand your options with full support for JavaScript syntax and compatibility with Lingo scripting.
Accessibility behaviors - Drag-and-drop behaviors let you control speech, tabbing, and item highlighting, as well as the captioning of words spoken by the Speech Xtra extension.
Internet protocol support - Import HTML text while maintaining full control of all link references, create web-based e-commerce applications with secure transactions (HTTPS) inside Shockwave, and integrate two-way communication (CGI Post).
Create richer experiences
Native 3D rendering with DirectX 9 support - Deliver more engaging experiences with DirectX 9 support for native 3D rendering. Create sophisticated game environments, make realistic simulations, and add immersive interaction to your applications, prototypes and simulations.
AEGIA PhysX and DirectX 9 support - Deliver more engaging experiences with the included AGEIA PhysX engine for advanced, real-world physical motion and interaction, and take advantage of native 3D rendering with DirectX 9 support. Create sophisticated game environments, make realistic simulations, and add immersive interaction to your applications, prototypes, and simulations.
Support for Flash CS3 Professional and video created with Flash - Expand your creative options by easily importing content created with Adobe Flash CS3 Professional, including files using the ActionScript 2.0 language. Launch Flash from within Adobe Director software and have your changes saved automatically.
Flash Asset Xtra for Flash Player - Create sophisticated 3D and 2D interactivity more efficiently with the Flash Asset Xtra, which enables easy interaction between ActionScript objects and JavaScript syntax or Lingo scripting--or a combination of the two.
Unicode support - Easily localize your games, applications, demos, training courses, and prototypes for international markets with new Unicode support.
Text rendering and bitmap filters - Display smooth, crisp text with a more powerful text engine and create a wide variety of rich visual effects with bitmap filters.
system requirements:
Operating
System:Windows
2000, Windows XP with Service Pack 2, Vista
ram:512MB RAM
hard drive
space: 500MB of available space
processor:Intel Pentium 4 or faster
media type:DVD-ROM
Mailing List
Sign up to receive our current pricing via email once a month
If you are currently using Director and are considering an upgrade, I think that it is an easy decision to do. If you are a Flash user and wondering why one would use Director, the answer would be for a lot of those things that are not Web-based, or that Director does better than or in concert with Flash. If you are looking to create interactive games, demos, prototypes, simulations, and eLearning courses, then I highly recommend Adobe Director 11. Blog Critics: http://blogcritics.org/scitech/article/software-review-adobe-director-11-from/page-3/