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Create richer experiences
Enjoy robust, flexible authoring
Extend your capabilities

Enjoy robust, flexible authoring

Integrate virtually any major file format screenshot
Integrate content from virtually any major file format

Support for more than 40 video, audio, and image file formats (Enhanced)

Enjoy the flexibility to incorporate content in virtually every major format, including SWF; DVD-Video, H.264, FLV, F4V and other video formats; as well as the broadest range of audio and graphics formats, including bitmaps, vectors, text, and 3D.

Windows Media format support

Use the popular Windows Media format, including Windows Media Audio and Windows Media Video, within your Adobe® Director® projects.

Apple QuickTime 7 support

Take advantage of QuickTime features, including support for streaming MPEG-4 video and MP3 audio.

RealMedia format support

Integrate RealMedia files, including RealVideo and RealAudio, in Director projects for Mac or Windows®.

Power to create

Bitmap filters

Achieve an even wider variety of rich visual effects, including blur, drop shadow, bevel, glow, and more, with bitmap filters you can apply through the user interface or scripting.

Multiuser interactivity

Build games and other applications that allow multiple users to interact.

Enhanced Script Browser

Save time working with script-sensitive movies using the enhanced Script Browser, which provides click-and-script convenience; easy access to information about functions, events, keywords, and commands; and a complete Lingo and JavaScript dictionary.

Code snippets

Get started faster creating sophisticated interactivity with code snippets that let you take advantage of Lingo and JavaScript methods without writing code.

Productivity boosters

Enhanced user interface

Do more and do it faster with an enhanced user interface that offers window docking, tabbed views, and improved management of movie assets to streamline your workflow.

Sprite and channel naming

Assign custom names to sprites and manipulate them easily without altering existing code. Move sprites and channels without modifying code, reducing scripting and editing time.

Help system

Get your questions answered fast with a comprehensive help system. Find all the information you need, including product help and Lingo and JavaScript syntax reference guides, in one convenient place.

Stage docking

Improve productivity and reduce window clutter with Stage docking.

Movie-in-a-Window docking

Enhance your workflow by docking Movie-in-a-Window (MIAW) tools with other palettes and tools.

Start page

Gain quick access to recently used files, help, and tutorials through the Start page.

Window properties

Work efficiently and quickly customize the look of your windows in Director projectors. Complex tasks, such as creating window and drag masks, are as simple as selecting a cast member in a pop-up menu.

Projector publishing panel

Reduce the time required to publish Director applications by saving projector settings on a per-project basis.

Powerful DVD-Video capabilities

DVD-Video support

Easily integrate this popular interactive video format into your Director projects. Embed, control, and play back DVD movies with other types of media to create powerful interactive experiences.

DVD Event Manager

Trigger events, such as firing web pages or swapping cast members during DVD playback. This easy-to-use visual tool eliminates the need for the majority of DVD-related scripting and speeds up the creation of sophisticated interactivity.

DVD Controller components

Quickly add DVD playback capabilities to Director projectors or Shockwave® enabled web pages using prebuilt DVD Controller components based on Adobe Flash® technology. Select from three styles to control nearly every aspect of DVD movie navigation.

Extend your capabilities

Everywhere publishing

Adobe Shockwave Player

Be confident that your games, applications, eLearning courses, demos, and prototypes are customer-ready for the web thanks to popular Adobe Shockwave Player software, available as a free download for Universal Mac and Windows platforms and already on the majority of computers worldwide.

Easy multiversion output

Broaden your market reach by authoring once and publishing across platforms and technologies with output that is customer-ready for virtually all computers as well as kiosks, DVDs, CDs, and the web.

Unicode support

Easily localize your games, applications, demos, training courses, and prototypes for international markets with Unicode support.

Windows Vista support

Publish your standalone applications for virtually all Windows based computers, including those running Microsoft® Windows Vista®.

Mac OS X support (New)

Author with the Mac OS version of Director 11.5 on Intel® based Mac computers. The applications you create can run on all PowerPC® and Intel based Macs.

Easy cross-platform projector publishing

Publish your applications for Universal Mac and Windows desktops with a single click.

Endless opportunities

Enhanced productivity with multiple undo/redo (New)

Experiment freely, knowing you can instantly undo or redo multiple steps in one click.

Xtra plug-ins

Extend your authoring environment, as well as the playback engine, with an ever-expanding ecosystem of third-party Xtras.

New datatype

Access and manipulate binary data using ByteArray datatype.

Adobe product line compatibility (Enhanced)

Take advantage of the easy workflow between Director 11.5 and the Adobe applications you already rely on, including Adobe Photoshop®, Flash Professional, and the entire Adobe Creative Suite® 4 family of products.

Application control

Create fully featured applications that can access, launch, and control other applications from within your Director project.

Full JavaScript support

Expand your options with full support for JavaScript syntax and compatibility with Lingo scripting.

Accessibility and standards

Accessibility support

Create content that meets government accessibility guidelines — including Section 508 guidelines. Director lets you add text-to-speech, captioning, and tab-navigation features to web-based Shockwave content or standalone applications on both Windows and Mac systems.

Speech Xtra extension

Create customizable, accessible content through the cross-platform Speech Xtra extension, which converts text to speech without a screen reader. The operating system provides voices at the system level. Any user with Shockwave Player and a speech engine installed (which ships standard on current operating systems) can use your accessible content.

Accessibility behaviors

Control speech, tabbing, and item highlighting, as well as the captioning of words spoken by the Speech Xtra extension, with drag-and-drop behaviors.

Internet protocol support

Import HTML text while maintaining full control of all link references, create web-based e-commerce applications with secure transactions (HTTPS) inside Shockwave, and integrate two-way communication (CGI Post).

XML parsing

Reduce resource requirements and leverage standard data exchange, even from large XML documents, with XML document parsing.

Create richer experiences

State-of-the-art audio: Enriched audio capabilities

Enriched audio capabilities (New)

Make your multimedia applications and games sound as real as they look with state-of-the-art audio capabilities that include 5.1 channel surround sound, 16-channel sound mixing, and advanced filters.
3D realism: Powerful 3D support

Powerful 3D support (New)

Incorporate 3D to deliver more engaging experiences. Rapidly create rich 3D environments using millions of ready-made 3D models available via Google SketchUp and Google 3D Warehouse, and take advantage of DirectX 9 support for native 3D rendering.
Real-world motion: Advanced physics with NVIDIA PhysX support (Enhanced)

Build games with realistic collisions and create simulations that model real-world gravity and other forces. The NVIDIA® PhysX™ physics engine delivers advanced dynamic motion and interaction.
Engaging video: Enhanced video capabilities (New)

Create an enhanced multimedia experience using H.264 video integration that lets you play full-screen, high-definition video in your multimedia applications and games. Also enjoy support for FLV and F4V video formats and streaming video.; Support for Flash 9 and video created with Flash technology

Expand your creative options by seamlessly importing content created with Adobe Flash 9 into your applications. Launch Flash (version 8 or earlier) from within Director and have your changes saved automatically.
3D and 2D interactivity: Flash Asset Xtra for Adobe Flash Player

Create sophisticated 3D and 2D interactivity more efficiently with the Flash Asset Xtra, which enables easy interaction between ActionScript® objects and JavaScript syntax or Lingo scripting — or a combination of the two.
Sharper text: Enhanced text rendering engine

Display smooth, crisp text in your demos, courses, games, and other applications with a more powerful text engine that improves font rendering.

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