MacroMind was an Apple Macintosh software company founded in Chicago in 1984 by Marc Canter, Jamie Fenton and Mark Stephen Pierce. The company's first product was SoundVision, a combined music and graphics editor. Before the release, the graphics editor was removed, and SoundVision became MusicWorks^[1] and the animation creativiy tool VideoWorks (which later became Director). Along with other early programs, MusicWorks and VideoWorks were originally published and distributed by Hayden Software.^[2]

In 1988 the company moved to San Francisco, and in 1991 MacroMind merged with Paracomp to become MacroMind–Paracomp, then in 1992 merged with Authorware Inc., forming Macromedia.

• MusicWorks (1984) - music composer
• VideoWorks (1985),^[3] VideoWorks II (1987) and VideoWorks Interactive - multimedia animation software
• Art Grabber/Body Shop (1985) - clip art software
• Comic Works/Graphic Works - object based paint program
• VideoWorks accelerator - animation compiler for VideoWorks files
• MazeWars+^[4] (1987) - multiplayer network game based on the classic Maze War
• Director (1987) - new name for VideoWorks II
• Director 2 (1988) - VideoWorks Interactive when released as a commercial product
• Director 2.2 (1989 - Introduction of Lingo (programming language), an extensible animation scripting language
• Director 3 (1989),^[5] and introduction of XObjects
• Three-D (1990)^[6][7] - 3D modeling and animation software
• MacroModel
• Renderworks (1990) - rendering software for Three-D files MacroMind at Google Books
• Fireworks (1990) - post-production software for Renderworks renderings
• Mouse Practice (1992) – a tutorial on how to use the mouse where the user controls a scuba diver

• Marc Canter - CEO and co-founder of MacroMind