How do I resize an entire Director Movie/Project?!?

[benchmarker]

I've created a 1280x1024 director movie that's fairly large. I need to put it on video to show people who don't have the equipment to handle a director movie this big. Is there any way I can export it or resize the whole thing to 1024X768 or 800X600 easily, without having to go back and resize everything individually?

 

[kennethkawamoto]

Resize the movie to 800 x 600 and put it in the top left of the screen:

--
(the stage).drawRect = rect(0, 0, 800, 600)
(the stage).rect = rect(0, 0, 800, 600)
--

 

[moleproductions]

I always produce projectors from Director to go onto CD - mainly containing videos. I always produce an 800 x 600 movie so that it fits on everyone's PC monitor.

However, often people say that they have their PC set to 1024 x 768 or higher and would like it if they could have the movie re-sized to fill the screen.

Is there a facility in Lingo or otherwise to expand the movie to fill the screen? How would this affect the content, especially MPEGS etc?

Any ideas most welcome!
Thanks,
Tim

 

[kennethkawamoto]

To make a Projector fullscreen you’ll need either (1) resize the Projector to fill the monitor, or (2) change monitor resolution to the size of the Projector.

(1) To resize the Stage size to the monitor size:

--
(the Stage).drawRect = the desktopRectList[1]
(the Stage).rect = the desktopRectList[1]
--

However, Text members won’t resize properly. You may need to turn them into bitmap. (I use Flash for texts as vector scales perfectly.)

Bitmaps scale well generally. Video also scaled well in my experience but obviously slow machines would suffer from frame drops.

(2) To change the monitor resolution you need an Xtra to do the job. There are many of them about. Buddy API, DirectOS, Resolution, ResolutionX etc.

Not all display card in PC supports resolution change without restart. Also you have to make sure you put the resolution back on exit.

 

[mominsdm]

when i complete my work in director and then i make cd and show cd my friend then he couldn't save this work or copy in your hard drive, so what i will do through lingo or in director