MacroMind Accelerator

MacroMind Accelerator, formerly VideoWorks Accelerator, was a utility provided by MacroMind (the predecessor of Macromedia) to process Director and VideoWorks files for faster playback on slower computers.

Features
VideoWorks Accelerator was first released in 1988 as a separate utility for VideoWorks II users. It pre-composited graphical elements into a single streaming file that could be loaded and played back from memory at up to 30 frames per second.

It was renamed MacroMind Accelerator in 1989 with support for encoding and accelerating Director files. It was later bundled with MacroMind Three-D in 1991 and MacroMind Director 3.1 in 1992. Accelerator was discontinued as the release of QuickTime from Apple Computer and Video for Windows from Microsoft made it redundant.