The Director 11.5 Software for Windows from Adobe is a development application that can be used to create compelling applications with robust interactive features. Director can deliver applications in Shockwave format for delivery via the web, as a standalone application for Mac or Windows, or in DVD format, allowing you to distribute them on disc for use on any standard DVD player.
You'll be able to add all types of rich content to your applications -- including video, audio, and 3D graphics. An improved text rendering engine ensures that characters in your application are readable on all types of displays, and support for nVIDIA's PhysX engine allows you to add real-world physics to your games.
Broadcast Media Support
Support for More Than 40 Video, Audio, and Image File Formats
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.
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.
Easy Cross-Platform Projector Publishing
Publish your applications for Universal Mac and Windows desktops with a single click. Universal Binary support for Mac OS X allows your applications to run on both PowerPC and Intel systems.
Endless Opportunities
Enhanced Productivity with Multiple Undo/Redo
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.
ByteArray Datatype
Access and manipulate binary data using the ByteArray datatype, new to version 11.5.
Adobe Product Line Compatibility
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.
State of the Art-Audio
Enriched Audio Capabilities
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
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
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
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.