Give your Adobe Director movie added appeal by including digital video. Digital video offers high-quality real-time image animation and sounds and also supports media such as Windows Media Audio and video files and DVD content.

Director supports the following: QuickTime video and Real Media content (Windows and Mac) and Windows Media Video and Audio (WMV and WMA) for Windows only. Audio Video Interleave files (AVI) in Windows are supported through the Windows Media Xtra. The Windows Media Xtra extensions can also support MPEG-1 (including MP3), MPEG-4, WAV, and RIFF.

QuickTime is a multimedia format in its own right. It offers sophisticated sound features and can include graphics in many formats, including basic navigation of QuickTime VR2 files. For a list of supported QuickTime formats, see the Apple Computer website at www.apple.com. To use QuickTime, you must also obtain QuickTime 7 from Apple.

For digital media provided in the DVD format, the Director DVD editor lets you link to, inspect, manipulate, and access the contents of a DVD. You can link to media on hybrid DVD ROM/Video and regular DVD video discs. However, you cannot export Director files in the DVD format.

The Director media synchronization features let you synchronize events in a movie to precise cue points embedded in digital video.

Video can make significant demands on a computer’s processing power. You might need to manage video content carefully to make sure it does not adversely affect your movie’s performance.

Lingo or JavaScript syntax gives Director more flexibility when playing digital video and can help overcome performance concerns. Use it to play digital video in ways that are not possible with the Score alone. Using Lingo or JavaScript syntax, you can do the following:

• Precisely synchronize digital video and animation
• Turn digital video on and off on demand and control individual video tracks
• Control QuickTime VR
• Trigger events at key points in time for a video sprite's playback