This topic is covered in Chapter 26.
Director and Flash: What??™s the Difference?
Director (the program you use to make Shockwave movies) and Flash share many features??”interactivity,
streaming audio, support for both bitmaps and vector graphics, and shocked fonts. Both can save their
movies in formats suitable for viewing on the Web. So how do you choose which program to use? Each has
its own special functions, and each excels at producing particular types of effects. Director is more fullfeatured,
with a complete programming language called Lingo that enables incredible interactivity. Director
movies can also include Flash animations. Director, however, has a much steeper learning curve than does
Flash. Flash is terrific for short, low-bandwidth animations with or without a synchronized audio track;
however, the interactive capabilities in Flash are limited compared to Director.
Director is really a multimedia production program used for combining a variety of elements: backgrounds,
foreground elements called sprites, and various media such as digital audio and video (see Figure 25-1).
With Director??™s Lingo programming language, you can build extraordinarily elaborate demos and games
with Internet-specific commands. When you want a high degree of interactivity, build your movie with
Director.
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