Multimedia authoring

Multimedia Authoring Tool

• There are many types of multimedia authoring tools (software programs) which can be used for developing instructional multimedia products. However, as technology became more powerful, so did the authoring tools -- permitting more complex instructional design. A multimedia authoring tool enables you to create a final application merely by linking together objects, such as a paragraph of text, an illustration, or a song. Attractive and useful multimedia applications can be produced by defining the objects relationships to each other, and by sequencing them in an appropriate order.

• Multimedia Authoring Tool easy and exciting for beginners... dynamic and interactive for experts... It requires less technical knowledge to master and is used exclusively for applications that present a mixture of textual, graphical, and audio data. Multimedia authoring tool can be used to create anything from simple slide shows to full-blown games and interactive applications. The splendid, yet refined, contents with multimedia materials (text, image, sound, video, animation, Flash, web document and database) with easy and convenient editing can be applied to the web as well as CDs and presentations. A multimedia authoring tool supports a wide variety of multimedia file formats including images, video, and sound. Clip-art and sound libraries are rarely bundled with a multimedia authoring tool.

Multimedia Presentation Software

• Multimedia software comprises a wide variety of software that allows you to combine images with text, music and sound, animation, video, and other special effects. Many kinds of multimedia software are available. Multimedia software is sometimes broadly grouped as:

1. Multimedia Authoring Tools
2. Multimedia Tools for the Web
3. Multimedia Presentation Software

• Multimedia Authoring can be used to create anything from simple slide shows to full-blown games and interactive applications. A professional multimedia development program is called an authoring tool or authoring software. An authoring tool allows you to give the user interactive control over the sequence and timing of videos, graphics and animation. It also provides a scripting language, also called a macro or authoring language to control the action.

• Multimedia presentation software is capable of stunning multimedia slideshows, brandishing dynamic sound, 3D Animation and cinematic quality special effects. Multimedia Presentation can be described as an intuitive book. Each page of the book can include pictures, animations, sounds and other controls. The pages can turn themselves or wait for their users to click on Next. Unlike the pages of a traditional book, they can talk to their readers too. No matter what your particular need may be, whether to e-mail an electronic photograph album to your relatives, allow users of your web page to download a multimedia catalog, show prospective clients samples of your work or make a dull subject come alive in class, multimedia presentation software can transform your ideas into a complete, professional application. In a live multimedia presentation, the slides are commonly projected onto large screens or printed on overhead transparencies. The slides may be distributed in printed form as handouts to accompany the live presentation.

• Multimedia Presentation Software can build self-displaying, interactive slide shows, electronic books and brochures, clickable advertisements, distributable portfolios and all sorts of other multimedia applications. Almost everything it can accomplish requires nothing more than a few mouse clicks. It has a short learning curve. Some multimedia presentation software documents are EXE files - they can be opened on any system. They can be freely distributed on disks and CD-ROMs, and over the Internet. Multimedia Presentation Software has some great features like the ability to:

1. Build and distribute slide show style presentations.
2. Write your own clickable advertisements, to distribute alone or with other products.
3. Design training materials that include pictures, sounds and interactive elements.
4. Compile a distributable portfolio.
5. Completed presentations are frequently published in multiple formats, which may include print, the Web, or electronic files.

• Multimedia Presentation Software requires a faster processor. A display adapter and screen driver capable of displaying more than 16 million colors is needed to get the best out of it.