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Magicgate Software's
Director Podcast
Episode 3 --
February 8th, 2006
The Director Podcast
Magicgate Software has been specializing in Adobe Director (previously Macromedia Director) for
over 10 years now. Come listen to programming techniques, information about Xtras (Macromedia Director's plugin library) and interviews with industry professionals. A must for any Director developer out there! We encourage you to send us your feedback and topic ideas. You can do this by emailing us at HERE, using our form below or by calling our....
Director Comment Hotline: 954-762-7962
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This Week's Shownotes:
Director Podcast Episode number 3, February 8th, 2006
Greetings
Who I am, Company Bio
Website location
Show Delay Reason
Made it past episode number 2…. Succeed / Fail margin
Over 600 listeners… national average is 10 new listeners per episode.
Regular Schedule of Wednesdays
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News:
MacIntel’s SAFE XTRAS List on our website
In order to shed some light on this subject and to help developers wishing to support this new platform, INM has written a new white paper on the subject.
Rosetta, Making the transition short term, Medium term and long term
Popular Xtras such as INM V12 Database, INM Impressario, ArcaDatabase and DirectEmail are compatible with Rosetta.
Good set of links.
LINK TO PDF FILE
Xtra of the week:
http://www.cxtra.net/
Cxtras, - Three French Developers, tons of xtras, Not cross platform
Description of cXtraSoundRec
cXtraSounRec allows you to record a wav file from a sound capture device, convert the record or a wav file to a MP3 or OGG file, change the volume and more !
You can use a method to convert a .WAV file to a .MP3 file with the SaveRecordToMP3 method but you need to download the lame library They don't include the library in our package due to his copyright. You can use a method to convert a .WAV file to a .OGG file with the SaveRecordToOGG method but you need to download the Vorbis library.
Features :
Record sound from microphone or other source
Load a Wav file
Save to Wav file
Save to MP3 file (using Lame dll)
Save to OGG file (using Vorbis dll)
Show the Windows Mixer
Show the Windows Record Mixer
Supported format : 8000, 11025, 22050, 44100 Hz; 8, 16 bits; mono, stereo
Change the volume for each channel in/out
Change the current position of the sound
50 Euros ($60 USD)
Director Sighting of the week: Zagreb Multimedia Postcard
Very well produced by company: Janus PIM from Zagreb Croatia
Virtual Tour, Panoramic Photos, Panoramic Video, Quiz, Games, Printable Postcard, Wallpapers, Multiple Languages, Interactive Map of City. They have devloped these for multiple cities.
http://www.multimediapostcard.com/
Resource of the week: Director-online.com
Listener Feedback:
Email from Marty Plumbo
Beautiful Dorina… Craig Hickman
Email from Brian Berlin
Free tool on INM site… go to impresario and FREE TOOLS
Indexes the full text of your PDF documents, as well as document meta-data (Title, Author, Subject, Keywords, Creation Date and Modification Date) in a V12 database.
Includes a sample Search screen, user guide and behaviors to help you quickly implement a PDF document search engine in your own project using Impressario to display the documents.
Link: http://www.inm.com/products/impressario/tools/
Closing Remarks
Contact Info, director@magicgate.com, 954-762-7962, www.magicgate.com/podcast/
Don’t forget our other podcast, The Kiosk Podcast
What to expect next: We have had time to plan the next three months of episodes, but are still lining up interviews and getting commitments from people so don’t know exactly who we will have on next Wednesday, but we will get somebody on the line for you.
So next week join us for another episode of the Director Podcast talking about the software we all love to use.
Podsafe music artist: Taking us out of the show, All These Sounds by Jody Shelton
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