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Let me now review a rather new feature with Director and that is the ability to play DVD content in your Director projects. Director 11 now enables you to use DVD content in your Director projects by linking to the DVD media. You can also use the DVD Media Editor, which I have open here to inspect that linked content. However, you can't actually make changes to DVD content within Director. Rather, you just change the attributes or properties of the DVD media. You do this either with the Property Inspector prior to playback or use Director's scripting capabilities while the movie is playing by polling events and then modifying the properties and methods that affect the linked DVD content. See the Director Scripting Reference for details on controlling DVD content with scripting. Here I have the DVD Editor. It's more of a player than an editor, but to access this you go to window, DVD. Now, you won't see my DVD playing back in this recording, although you will hear it because the DVD content is being played Direct to Stage and my recording equipment will not record it. But if you try this with your computer, you will see and hear the content, but you can play the DVD content. The Play Button, a Pause Button, Stop Button, Fast Forward and Rewind. It's pretty limited, but it is here. Again, you can't really edit the DVD content, but you can play it back. To insert DVD content, you'll use the Insert Menu, Insert Media Element, DVD and then notice that there's an icon of a DVD there with an upper, right-hand corner that's folded over. Again, indicating that this is linked content. When you use this method to bring in the DVD Cast Member, Director first looks for DVD media in the form of a Video Underscore TS Folder in the first DVD disk drive that contains a valid DVD disk. If no disk is found, Director then searches for a Video Underscore TS Folder at the root of the hard drive. On a Mac computer, a Video Underscore TS Folder will only be detected automatically if it resides on a DVD disk in the DVD drive. So with windows you have the option of either linking directly from the DVD in the drive or copying that content to a Video Underscore TS Folder. You would actually apply the DVD Cast Member the same way that you would any other Cast Member. Simply drag and drop it from the Cast Window onto the Stage and then we can go ahead and play this back. Again, you won't see my video playback on this recording, but it's playing back the intro sequence. You can hear the music there and rest assured that you will see the DVD content playing back if you try this. Let's go ahead and stop the movie and that stops the DVD playback. The DVD Property Inspector lets you set the options for Audio, Close Captioning, Volume and whether or not the Cast Member pauses during playing. The way you access the DVD Property Inspector is click on the DVD Sprite or the Cast Member here in the Cast Window. You'll probably want to move your Property Inspector into List View. Here in Non-List View you have Audio, Playback Audio and Pause and then the Volume setting. If you move into List View, you have the additional settings here for controlling the properties of that DVD playback. Notice that a lot of the media properties here are disabled, but you have an Angle setting, Audio Stream and Sub-Picture Settings. For more details on these DVD Properties, check out the Director Help. So there you have it. You have pretty minimal support for DVD playback. But support is here for playing linked DVD content from either a DVD drive or from a folder, notice labeled Video Underscore TS. Let me now move on to the next movie and review in detail using digital video on the Internet with Director 11.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Director 11 |
| Author: | James Gonzalez |
| SKU: | 33901 |
| ISBN: | 1-934743-84-4 |
| Release Date: | 2008-07-31 |
| Duration: | 9.5 hrs / 107 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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