All-new audio engine plus enhanced video and 3D support.
Adobe Director 11.5 and Adobe Shockwave Player software help you create and publish compelling interactive games, demos, prototypes, simulations, and eLearning courses for the web, Mac and Windows desktops, DVDs, and CDs. Integrate virtually any major file format, including FLV and native 3D content, for the greatest return on your creativity.
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Top features
Support for more than 40 video, audio, and image file formats
Incorporate content in virtually every major format, including SWF, DVD-Video, and other video formats, as well as the broadest range of audio and graphics formats, including bitmaps, vectors, text, and 3D.
Strong video capabilities
Create an enhanced multimedia experience using H.264-video integration that lets you play full-screen, high-definition video in your multimedia applications and games. Stream audio and video over the Internet using Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) support.

Enriched audio capabilities
Enriched audio capabilities
Make your multimedia applications and games sound as real as they look with state-of-the-art audio capabilities that include 5.1 channel surround sound, 16-channel sound mixing, and advanced filters.

Powerful 3D support
Powerful 3D support
Incorporate 3D to deliver more engaging experiences. Rapidly create rich 3D environments using millions of ready-made 3D models available via Google SketchUp, and take advantage of DirectX 9 support for native 3D rendering.
Advanced physics with NVIDIA PhysX support
Build games with realistic collisions and create simulations that model real-world gravity and other forces. The NVIDIA PhysX physics engine delivers advanced dynamic motion and interaction.
Support for Adobe Flash 9 software and video created with Flash technology
Expand your creative options by seamlessly importing content created with Adobe Flash 9 software into your applications. Launch Flash (version 8 or earlier) from within Adobe Director software and have your changes saved automatically.
Unicode support
Easily localize your games, applications, demos, training courses, and prototypes for international markets with Unicode support.
Enhanced text rendering engine
Display smooth, crisp text in your demos, courses, games, and other applications with a more powerful text engine that improves font rendering.
New datatype
Access and manipulate binary data using ByteArray datatype.
Enhanced Script Browser
Save time working with script-sensitive movies using the enhanced Script Browser, which provides click-and-script convenience; easy access to information about functions, events, keywords, and commands; and a complete Lingo and JavaScript dictionary.
Bitmap filters
Achieve an even wider variety of rich visual effects, including blur, drop shadow, bevel, glow, and more, with bitmap filters that you can apply through the user interface or scripting.
Xtra plug-ins
Extend your authoring environment, as well as the playback engine, with an ever-expanding ecosystem of third-party Xtras.
Easy multiversion output
Broaden your market reach by authoring once and publishing across platforms and technologies with output that is customer-ready for virtually all computers, kiosks, DVDs, CDs, and the web.
Multimedia authors
Easily create and publish interactive CD-ROM discs, kiosks, and rich Internet applications (RIAs). Realize the greatest return on your creativity with cross-platform authoring and playback.
Game developers
Develop engaging experiences with state-of-the-art audio capabilities, native 2D/3D rendering, and enhanced built-in physics with NVIDIA PhysX technology.
eLearning application authors
Engage learners by adding new dimensions to your training and simulation applications.
System Requirements
Mac OS
- Multicore Intel processor
- Mac OS X v10.4
- 512MB of available RAM (1GB recommended)
- 500MB of available hard-disk space