Adobe 65036570 User Guide - Page 56

ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 45 User Guide • If you distribute a movie, you also must include all linked cast member files, and they must be in their expected locations.The Copy Linked And Dependent Files option in the Publish Settings dialog box ensures that the linked media are automatically placed in the relative location during publishing. If you have disabled the Copy Linked And Dependent Files option, copy the linked files to the same folder as the projector or in a folder inside the Projector folder. The behavior is the same as in Director MX 2004 if this option is disabled. In addition, the Xtra extensions that are used to import the media must be present when the movie runs (either on the user's computer or included in your movie). For more information, see Setting Xtra cast member properties. • When you link to media on the Internet, the media must be present at the specified URL when the movie runs. Provide for link failure because you can't guarantee that an Internet transaction will be successful. • To retrieve media from the Internet during playback, Director requires that the projector include certain Xtra extensions. To include these Xtra extensions automatically, click Add Network in the Movie Xtras dialog box. Movies playing in web browsers do not require these Xtra extensions. Note: Select Edit > Preferences > Network to define standard network settings for the Director authoring environment. If you are using a Mac OS® X operating system, select the Director menu, instead of the Edit menu, to access Preferences. Choosing import image options If you import a bitmap cast member with a color depth or color palette that is different from that of the Stage (the current movie), Director lets you select the image's color depth and color palette. You can choose to import the bitmap at its original color depth or at the Stage color depth. (The Stage color depth is the same as the system color depth.) You can also choose to import the image's color palette or remap the image's colors to a palette in the movie. In many cases, it's easiest to change the image's color depth to the depth of the movie and remap the image to the color palette that is used in the rest of the movie. For more information about controlling color in Director, see Color, Tempo, and Transitions. If you change 16-, 24-, or 32-bit cast members to 8 or fewer bits, you must remap the cast members to an existing color palette. Select bitmap image options for importing 1 Import a bitmap image by selecting File > Import. (See Importing cast members.) 2 If the Image Options dialog box appears while you are importing a bitmap image using File > Import, select one of the following Color Depth options: Image specifies the color depth and palette of the image. Stage specifies the color depth of the current Stage. 3 Select a Palette option to change palette settings for 2-, 4- or 8-bit images: Import imports the image with its color palette. The palette appears as a new cast member immediately following the bitmap cast member. Remap To replaces the image's colors with the most similar solid colors in the palette you select from the menu. 4 Select Image options: Trim White Space removes any white pixels from the edges of the image. Deselect this option to preserve the white canvas around an image. Dither blends the colors in the new palette in the Palette section to approximate the original colors in the graphic.