When you finish authoring your Adobe Director movie, you have a choice of several ways to prepare it for distribution. You can distribute a movie in the Shockwave Player format that plays in a browser, or you can distribute it as a stand-alone projector. Stand-alone projectors can contain the software necessary to play the movie, or they can use an installed Shockwave Player to play the movie independent of a browser. You can also export a movie as a digital video.

Director provides several features to prepare movies for distribution. These features include determining Publish settings and deciding which Xtra extensions to include, exclude, or download. You can also preview your movie in a browser and batch-process movie files to compress them and protect them from being edited.

Unicode names for the following are not supported when the movie is run using the HTTP protocol:

• Linked files
• HTML and DCR files
• External casts
• CCT and CXT files