Intended for the developer or power user who wants to break multimedia barriers, this text focuses on creative ways to use Director 5. It teaches the advanced techniques to extend Director's capabilities with Xtras plug-in technology, enhancing its performance. It shows how to add interactivity using the powerful Lingo scripting language, as well as harnessing the strengths of Shockwave, which allows Director movies to be loaded and played from the Web, and Afterburner, Macromedia's solution to shrinking Director files for distribution over the Web.