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4 At the bottom of the Stage, click the Rewind button, and then click the Play button.
The movie plays from beginning to end, flashing scene 1 briefly on the Stage and playing the
tire animation once before returning to frame 1 and playing again.
5 If your movie plays only once, turn on looping by selecting Control > Loop Playback.
6 When you finish viewing the movie, click the Stop button at the bottom of the Stage.
Later in this tutorial, you will add Lingo scripts to make the buttons function and prevent the
playhead from moving from one scene to the next without navigation.
Note: As you complete the tutorial, remember to save your work frequently.
Building the third scene with sound and video
The sound and video scene will introduce you to using sound and video in your movies. You can
include sound and video with or without Lingo, depending on the complexity of the effect you
want to achieve. In this scene, you will add video to the Stage, add a sound effect, and add
buttons that control the sound and video.
Import a digital video cast member
When you import a file into Director, you can import the entire file into your Director movie file
or leave it as a separate file, creating only a reference to the external file in your Director movie. If
you import a file by reference, it is crucial not to move it from the location where it’s referenced.
If you move it, Director will not be able to find it the next time you open your Director file, and
the movie will not play as intended. Advantages of importing by reference include the following:
• The file size of your Director movie is smaller when you reference, rather than fully import,
your media.
• Referencing media offers greater flexibility in terms of how you manage and where you locate
your media assets.
When the referenced file is edited using the Launch and Edit feature of Director, there is no need
to import the edited file again.
The first cast member in the sound and video scene will be a QuickTime digital video file. Digital
video files are always imported by reference, leaving the digital video file separate from the
Director file.
1 Select File > Import. In the Import Files dialog box, navigate within your Director MX folder
to Tutorials/Basics/BasicsMedia and select the file named walkaround.mov.
2 Click the Add button.
3 In the Media pop-up menu, select Link to External File.
By selecting the Link to External File option, you specify importing by reference.
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