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MacroMind Director (MMD) is a Macintosh-based multimedia package for combining text, graphics, animation, music and other sound, and video. It has found extensive use in the fields of film, engineering, education and industry. It is effective for production of impressive simulations, visualizations, presentations, and for rapid prototyping. The results are displayed on a Macintosh screen or output to a video channel. Similar versions of this package exist for Windows and UNIX platforms.As no programming is required to create an interface, MMD can be used by graphic designers with no programming expertise - though production of complex animations does require programming skill. The designer can draw 'example' screens. Then he can create a video clip, music, animation, another screen, or other screen movement when the mouse is clicked on a specific portion of that screen. Screen elements can be used repeatedly throughout the interaction. There are three steps in the production of an MMD application: Animating graphics; creating interactive elements; and assembling the final movie. The program's functionality can be defined by a script language named 'HyperTalk', which can also attach it to a graphic or text object, thus conferring a 'button' effect. External functions which must be written in a third-generation language such as C can be attached to MMD scripts.
QuickTime can be used with MMD. Animation, video clips and sound can thus be incorporated in a document. Additionally, copying, pasting, recording, playing and cutting of dynamic media are possible. QuickTime is utilized in educational software. There, special effects such as physics experiments and chemical reactions are better simulated at the click of an icon, than with hypertext documents for computer-aided instruction. It is used in business presentations to animate information such as sales figures creeping up (or down) in real time or presenting data in slide shows. Scientific and engineering data recorded by remote monitoring equipment can be replayed through QuickTime allowing researchers to study events of interest such as tornadoes.
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