Setting Shockwave playback options

To view Shockwave content, your users must have the Macromedia Shockwave Player, which comes preinstalled on many computer systems. The player is also available for free downloading from the Macromedia website at www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/.

The Shockwave Player includes a volume control and a standard context menu that appears when a user right-clicks (Windows) or Control-clicks (Macintosh) a movie. You can select specific playback options to include for your users when you save your movie as Shockwave content.

Shockwave content loops by default. To cause Shockwave content to play only once, add the Hold on Current Frame behavior to the last frame of the movie.

To set Shockwave playback options:

1. Select File > Publish Settings.

   The Publish Settings dialog box appears.

2. If not already selected, select Shockwave File (DCR) on the Formats tab.

   The Shockwave tab appears in the Publish Settings dialog box.

3. Select the Shockwave tab and select the options you want to provide for your users, as described in the following list:
   • Image Compression optimizes your content for download over the Internet by letting you manage the file size vs. the image quality a file. The default setting for all bitmap member types when creating a dcr. The default is set to JPEG, with a quality setting of 80. To further optimize the size of your images, you can adjust the Image Compression setting of each individual bitmap.

   Standard: Select Standard to apply compression techniques used by Director in versions 4 through 7, select Standard. This setting is suitable for simple graphics that contain few colors or non-photographic type images.

   JPEG: Select JPEG and specify the image quality setting by moving the slider to a value between 0 and 100 percent. A lower percentage results in increased compression, but produces a lower quality image.

   • Audio Compression:

   Compression Enabled lets you compress the sound in your movie. Select this option and select the level of compression from the kBits/second pop-up menu. For more information about sound compression, see Compressing internal sounds with Shockwave Audio.

   Convert Stereo to Mono lets you convert stereo audio to monaural. This option is only available if Shockwave Audio Compression is enabled.

   • Include Cast Member Comments lets you include comments you might have entered in the Comments text box of the Property inspector for your cast members. You can then use Lingo or JavaScript syntax to access the comments in the DCR file.
   • Enabled context menu items:

   Volume Control lets users adjust the volume of the movie's soundtrack.

   Transport Control provides controls for rewinding, stopping, and stepping through the movie.