Adobe Director

Adobe Director, formerly Macromedia Director, was a multimedia application that was developed by. It had since been acquired by, which discontinued support for Director in 2017. Shockwave is a web content format that is authored with Director. Microsoft 365 blocks Shockwave content by default for security reasons.

History
Content authored with Macromedia Director helped drive the business of early multimedia CD-ROMs. Applications authored with Director often, though not always, bear a logo indicating such. Director supports playback scripting with the, allowing for rapid prototyping and development of graphical applications with the tradeoff of limitations of the authoring platform.

In December 1996, Macromedia acquired FutureSplash Animator, which became Macromedia Flash and eventually overtook Shockwave to become the leading multimedia plug-in for the web. Macromedia Flash was occasionally referred to as "Shockwave Flash" and even shared the file format extension (swf), leading to confusion between the two. In 2005, Macromedia was acquired by, which renamed the products to Adobe Flash and Adobe Shockwave. Adobe discontinued support for Adobe Director and Shockwave in 2017.