Back in the day, I used to make a living as a director developer. I did lots of lingo programming and built loads of cd-roms. My focus began to shift away to primarily web development around the time when Macromedia introduced the 3D stuff into Director; consequently I never really spent much time getting my head around it.

I've been engrossed in the web development world for quite a long time now, but when I started getting into Quartz Composer, I felt somewhat restricted by not really having a timeline or a scripting language to work with. Which got me to thinking….

Director is a very powerful development environment. I did a little test incorporating a quartz composer file (exported as a quicktime movie) into Director - just dropping it on the stage, and it works. Not a great surprise, but does at least prove it works.

With the way I am building my setup, the fact that you can get midi support into Director pretty easily, could be very helpful.

So I can play quartz composer files inside Director, and I should be able take the S-Video output of my old powerbook, running Director, through my AV-DV converter, into my newer powerbook into Quartz Composer. If I can connect them both up to MIDI, then I should be able to have them both respond to the same MIDI signals.

I'm guessing that running quartz composer files inside a quicktime wrapper is fairly limited - no interaction? Also runs slow inside Director?

Still, maybe all those years of working with Director might pay off now!

SteamSHIFT out.