Subtitles of the Movie

Let me now go over another very important element of the Director application; that's the Cast Window. You can toggle the Cast Window open and closed using the Cast Window icon here at the top of the Director interface. You can also access the Cast Window by choosing from the main menu window, cast or here on the Macintosh, COMMAND+3 will toggle it open or closed. Cast Window contains the cast members of your movie. You can use the Cast Window to create or import new cast members, to view existing cast members and to control the properties of each cast member. So let me go over each of these aspects of the Cast Window in this movie. As you work in Director, you'll discover that there are two types of cast members; those that can be media elements of your movie, such as sounds, text, graphics, animation and video that are placed on the Stage as Sprites. Let me go ahead and erase that VTC logo and then drag another copy onto the Stage like so. I'm deleting them by just pressing the delete key. You place graphics and video, text cast members in the lower Sprite channels here. Audio cast members are dragged into one of the two audio channels here in the effects channels and you can toggle the effects channels on or off by clicking on the hide-show effects channel button here in the upper right-hand corner of the Score. Now, some cast members may appear in the Score but not on the Stage. These cast members include scripts, palettes, fonts and transitions, which you can use in the effects channels on the Score. And I have a transition right here that I've used in my transitions channel right there. Notice if I add another transition, let's do a push, push left. Click OK. Notice that it's placed in the next available position here in the Cast Window. But this is never actually placed or seen on the Stage; likewise with my script here. That's going to appear in the script channel. So you'll find that there are two different types of cast members; cast members that appear on the Stage and those that do not. In the Cast Window you can create or import new cast members to appear as Sprites on the Stage. Notice that if I take my Tool Panel and draw out another shape on my Stage, that cast member is immediately added to the next available position here in the Cast Window. If I delete this cast member, notice that its Sprite down here also goes away; likewise with this oval. It'll disappear. If I delete this graphic there, it'll also disappear. However, if I delete it here on the Stage, the copy in the Cast Window will stay there. Now, it's important to understand that multiple Sprites can be created from the same cast member. Let me demonstrate that by dragging out multiple copies of, for example, this graphic right here. Let's make this much smaller. There's a copy and I can actually go here to the Properties Inspector and take the Sprite tab right here and change the ink to really change the appearance of this cast member; actually, the Sprite. For example, there's dark and I can drag out another copy here. Let's go ahead and make this smaller. So there's the second example of that cast member. It's a new Sprite. And let's change the ink here from copy to not ghost. Notice that it's actually white and the other one is blue. So these are two Sprites that look very, very different but are actually based on the same cast member here in the Cast Window. Now, you can create cast members using the various tools: the Paint Tool, Text tool, Rectangle. So we can also import cast members. That's how I got these images in here. Do that by simply choosing file, import, browse to the location of your cast member that you want to bring in. For example, let's bring in this QuickTime movie right there. Let's import that and there's the movie right there.