The Movie Player does a pretty good job at reproducing MacroMind Director animations on the PC, considering the differences between the authoring and delivery platforms. The Movie Player supports the following capabilities:
| Transitions |
All transition types are supported. |
| Inks |
The following inks are supported: |
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Copy Matte White Transparent The following inks are supported with restrictions: Ghost and Not Ghost Reverse and Not Reverse Transparent and Not Transparent Not Copy The following inks are supported in altered form: Mask |
| Cast members |
All cast-member types are supported, except for QuickDraw PICT cast members. |
| Lingo |
Lingo is not supported. The Movie Player supports the use of MCI commands in the script channel. |
| Tempo |
All Tempo commands are supported including “wait for audio” on both streamed and embedded audio. |
| Palette Effects |
Everything within the limits set in the next section. |
| Audio |
The Movie Player supports embedded audio cast members. Using the MCI script-channel commands, a movie can also play audio compact-disc tracks, MIDI files, and waveform audio files. |