Applied Studies College CSA 116: Digital Video and Audio
Macromedia Director MX 2004
Prepared by: Mr. Basel Bani-Ismail Page (2)
When creating and editing movies, you typically work with four key windows in Director's work area.
These are: the Stage, the rectangular area where the movie plays; one or more Cast windows, where
all the movie's media elements are stored; the Score, where the movie is assembled and the Property
Inspector, which allows you to set the properties of various aspects of your movie. The Control Panel
is another useful window, providing controls for playing movies.
At the top of this page is the default workspace (panel set) layout. You can create and save your own
panel set layout from Windows > Panel Sets > Save Panel Set Layout. You can also go back to the
default layout at any time following the same process.
In the default panel set layout (as in the screenshot), the Score and Cast are docked together. The Tool
Palette is docked to the left docking channel. In the right docking channel, we see the Property
Inspector. Docked underneath is the Library Palette in a tabbed panel group with the Behavior
Inspector and Object Inspector. The Stage has a Control Toolbar built into the bottom of the
window. This toolbar is a downsized version of the Control Panel. You can remove the Control
Toolbar by choosing View > Control Toolbar (the Stage window must be active to allow you to do
this).
There are two types of windows in Director: document windows and tool windows. Document
windows are used to create or edit content. Tool windows allow you to view or modify properties of
this content. The Paint window is a document window, allowing you to create and edit images. The
Property Inspector is a tool window that allows you to view properties of that image member (in the
member tab). Some cast member properties displayed in the Property Inspector are not editable, like
the creation date, while others can be modified. The Stage, Score and Cast are document windows. The
Tool Palette, Control Panel are tool windows.
Main Windows Summary
The Score organises and controls a movies content over time in channels and frames (see below). It
also controls special effects, such as transitions.
The Cast window displays all the media that make up a movie, such as images, text, sounds, digital
video. It can be viewed as series of icons (as shown in the screen shot above) or as a text list when in
list view mode.
The Stage is the 'screen' on which Director movies are projected. It is used to determine where all the
visible media in a movie appear.
The Property Inspector displays the properties of various elements of a movie, such as cast members,
sprites, or the movie itself.
The Control Panel provides a set of controls similar to those on a VCR to do things such as pause,
play or rewind a movie.
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