Macromedia Director is a popular Video Authoring Software. It can run on both Windows and Mac operating system with a minimum Ram of 128 MB. By using this software you can animate like flash, give special effects, can develop professional level games etc. Though you can animate as you are doing in flash, its processing of doing is different. It has some new terms like cast members, sprite, behavior and lingo programming. Once you understand these things, it will be easier for you to work on it. After completing the project you can generate exe format files which can play on any computer without having the software. More than 100 per-defined java scripts called behaviors are there. They are grouped into different categories.To make their identification and use easier. You simply drag and drop on the cast member to make it work. You can import Video to the cast members and control the video by applying Stop, Play, Pause, and Go to behaviors to use it. You can also control sound with scripts. You can publish the output for web.