| MPEG ADVANCE XTRA HELP: INSTALLATION |
| The installation procedure is slightly different depending on the version of Director and platform used, and the location where Director is installed on your system. Make sure you have administrative rights to create files in the directory where Director is installed on your system.

INSTALLING THE XTRA ON WINDOWS - Director 8.5 and Director MX

Decompress the installation .zip file. This will unpack the Xtra, documentation and sample files to a folder named "Mpeg Advance Xtra" on your machine. To install the Xtra, just copy the file MpegAdvance.x32 to the Director 8.5 or Director MX XTRAS folder. If you have previously installed an older copy of the Xtra make sure to remove or replace it.

These are the default locations of the Xtras folder for each application:

Director 8.5- C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Director 8.5\Xtras

Director MX- C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Director MX\Xtras

No additional configuration is needed. Restart Director for the changes to take effect. The Xtra should appear in the INSERT->TABULEIRO XTRAS->Mpeg Advance Xtra menu item.

INSTALLING THE XTRA ON WINDOWS - Director MX 2004

If you have not done so, we recommend updating to Director MX 2004 version 10.1 before installing the Xtra. This will allow creation of projectors for Mac Classic and OSX (Director MX 2004 without the update can only create cross platform projectors for OSX.) The update to 10.1 can be found at www.macromedia.com.

Decompress the installation .zip file. This will unpack the Xtra, documentation and sample files to a folder named "Mpeg Advance Xtra" on your machine. To install the Xtra, just copy the file MpegAdvance.x32 to the Director MX 2004 XTRAS folder. If your copy of Director MX 2004 is installed at the default location, the Windows Xtra file will be located at:

C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Director MX 2004\Configuration\Xtras\MpegAdvance.x32

Now you need to install the files necessary for creation of cross-platform projector for Mac OSX. Go back to the "Mpeg Advance Xtra" directory where the Xtra files were unpacked. Open the "Cross Platform Resources\Macintosh\Xtras" directory. Now copy the files "Mpeg Advance Xtra.data" and "Mpeg Advance Xtra.rsrc" files to the "Configuration\Cross Platform Resources\Macintosh\Xtras" directory used by Director MX 2004. In a default installation of Director these files will end up at the following locations:

C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Director MX 2004\Configuration\Cross Platform Resources\Macintosh\Xtras\Mpeg Advance Xtra.data

C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Director MX 2004\Configuration\Cross Platform Resources\Macintosh\Xtras\Mpeg Advance Xtra.rsrc

If you are running Director MX 2004 10.1, you can also install the files necessary for creation of cross-platform projector for Mac Classic. Again, go back to the "Mpeg Advance Xtra" directory where the Xtra files were unpacked. Open the "Cross Platform Resources\Classic\Xtras" directory. Now copy the files "Mpeg Advance Xtra.data" and "Mpeg Advance Xtra.rsrc" files to the "Configuration\Cross Platform Resources\Classic\Xtras" directory used by Director MX 2004. In a default installation of Director these files will end up at the following locations:

C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Director MX 2004\Configuration\Cross Platform Resources\Classic\Xtras\Mpeg Advance Xtra.data

C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Director MX 2004\Configuration\Cross Platform Resources\Classic\Xtras\Mpeg Advance Xtra.rsrc

Finally, you need to edit the xtrainfo.txt file to include information about Mpeg Advance Xtra. This information is used by the cross-platform publishing features in Director MX 2004, to locate the files needed when assembling the OSX and Classic versions of your projector. The xtrainfo.txt file is located by default at:

C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Director MX 2004\Configuration\xtrainfo.txt

Double click the file to open it in notepad, or alternatively edit with any other text editor. You need to add the following line to the end of the file:

[#namePPC:"Mpeg Advance Xtra", #nameW32:"MPEGADVANCE.X32"]

Restart Director for the changes to take effect. The Xtra should appear in the INSERT->TABULEIRO XTRAS->Mpeg Advance Xtra menu item.

INSTALLING THE XTRA ON MAC OS 8 AND 9 - Director 8.5

Decompress the installation .sit file. This will unpack the Xtra, documentation and sample files to a folder named "Mpeg Advance Xtra" on your machine. To install the Xtra just copy the file "Mpeg Advance Xtra" from the MacClassic folder to the Xtras folder of your Director 8.5 installation. The final pathname for the Xtra will be for example:

Macintosh HD:Applications:Macromedia Director 8.5:Xtras:Mpeg Advance Xtra

No additional configuration is needed. Restart Director for the changes to take effect. The Xtra should appear in the INSERT->TABULEIRO XTRAS->Mpeg Advance Xtra menu item in Director.

INSTALLING THE XTRA ON MAC OSX 10 - Director MX

Decompress the installation .sit file. This will unpack the Xtra, documentation and sample files to a folder named "Mpeg Advance Xtra" on your machine.

The first step is to copy the OSX version of the Xtra, which will be used in the authoring environment and also when creating OSX projectors. This file is located in the install disk image, at:

Mpeg Advance Xtra Folder/MacOSX/Mpeg Advance Xtra

This file needs to be copied to the Director MX Xtras folder. The final pathname for the OSX Xtra in a default installation of Director MX will be:

OSX Volume Name/Applications/Macromedia Director MX/Xtras/Mpeg Advance Xtra

Director MX running on Mac OSX can also be used to create Classic projectors, for Mac OS versions 8 and 9. In order to enable this feature you need to copy the Classic version of Mpeg Advance Xtra to the correct location in your Director MX installation. First locate the Classic version of Mpeg Advance Xtra in the install disk:

Mpeg Advance Xtra Folder/MacClassic/Mpeg Advance Xtra

This file needs to be copied to the following location in the Director MX folder:

OSX Volume Name/Applications/Macromedia Director MX/Classic MacOS/Xtras/Mpeg Advance Xtra

This will allow creation of both OSX and Classic Projectors from Director MX, with the right version of the Xtra being bundled automatically with your Projector. Restart Director for the changes to take effect. The Xtra should appear in the INSERT->TABULEIRO XTRAS->Mpeg Advance Xtra menu item the next time Director MX is started.

INSTALLING THE XTRA ON MAC OSX 10 - Director MX 2004

Decompress the installation .sit file. This will unpack the Xtra, documentation and sample files to a folder named "Mpeg Advance Xtra" on your machine.

The first step is to copy the OSX version of the Xtra, which will be used in the authoring environment and also when creating OSX projectors. This file is located in the install disk image, at:

Mpeg Advance Xtra Folder/MacOSX/Mpeg Advance Xtra

This file needs to be copied to the Director MX Xtras folder. The final pathname for the OSX Xtra in a default installation of Director MX will be:

OSX Volume Name/Applications/Macromedia Director MX 2004/Configuration/Xtras/Mpeg Advance Xtra

Director MX 2004 running on Mac OSX can also be used to create Classic projectors, for Mac OS versions 8 and 9. In order to enable this feature you need to copy the Classic version of Mpeg Advance Xtra to the correct location in your Director MX installation. First locate the Classic version of Mpeg Advance Xtra in the install disk:

Mpeg Advance Xtra Folder/MacClassic/Mpeg Advance Xtra

This file needs to be copied to the following location in the Director MX folder, to be used for cross-platform publishing. Copy it to:

OSX Volume Name/Applications/Macromedia Director MX 2004/Configuration/Cross Platform Resources/Classic MacOS/Xtras/Mpeg Advance Xtra

Windows projectors can also be created directly on Director MX 2004 running on Mac OSX after installation of the Windows version of the Xtra. It is located on the install disk, at:

Mpeg Advance Xtra Folder/Windows/MpegAdvance.x32

Copy this file to the Cross Platform resources directory in Director MX 2004, so that it will be available at:

OSX Volume Name/Applications/Macromedia Director MX 2004/Configuration/Cross Platform Resources/Windows/Xtras/MpegAdvance.x32

Finally, you need to edit the xtrainfo.txt file to include information about Mpeg Advance Xtra. This information is used by the cross-platform publishing features in Director MX 2004, to locate the files needed when assembling the Classic MacOS and Windows versions of your projector. The xtrainfo.txt file is located by default at:

OSX Volume Name/Applications/Macromedia Director MX 2004/Configuration/xtrainfo.txt

Double click the file to open it in TextEdit, or alternatively edit with another text editor. Make sure to save the file in plain text format, though. You need to add the following line to the end of the file:

[#namePPC:"Mpeg Advance Xtra", #nameW32:"MPEGADVANCE.X32"]

Restart Director for the changes to take effect. The Xtra should appear in the INSERT->TABULEIRO XTRAS->Mpeg Advance Xtra menu item, and will also be available for publishing of cross-platform projectors.