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Developing Multimedia Applications

Types of Authoring Systems

Stages of Authoring

Editing, Organizing, Interactivity,
Performance Tuning
Source Acknowledgement

Cross Platform Features and Authoring
Vaughon(2007): Multimedia – Making it Work, Tata McGraw Hill
Villamil et al(2001): Multimedia – An Introduction, PHI
Notes

Flash MX
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Framework for organizing and editing
Objects- elements and events

Integrated environment for combining  exist in a hierarchical
 properties and modifiers
the content and functions

On receiving messages, objects perform

Enables to tasks depending on the properties and
 create modifiers.
 Edit
 import
 Integrate etc

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Editing and organizing
editing

Programming  create, edit, and convert

Interactivity  eg animation and video clips

Performance tuning
organization, design, and production

 storyboarding

playback Delivery
 flowcharting

cross-platform actions

Internet playability

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Visual programming
Interactivity

 Icons  user control over the content and flow
 Simple branching
 objects
 Conditional branching

Visual authoring tools
Structured language supports
 Authorware and IconAuthor  complex programming logic

Authoring tools  Subroutines
 offer ‘very high level language’ (VHLL) or  event tracking
 message passing among objects and elements
 interpreted scripting environment

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Synchronization difficulty
Delivering the project

 development and delivery platform variations

Precise timing of events.

Component –wise testing immediately
 building a run-time version of the project

Run-time version or standalone
 play back without the complete authoring software
and all its tools and editors

Easy transfer across platforms

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MM –capable Presentation Tools
Card- and page-based tools

 Allows interactive branching

Icon-based, event-driven tools
 PowerPoint, HG, Macromedia Action

Time-based tools

Dedicated Media Integration Tools
 Allows sequencing of MM events and elements
 Assymetric Media Blitz, IBM soreynboard Live etc

Professional MM Development Tools
 Complex and powerfull
 Used for highly interactive MMA
 Authorware, Director, Apple Hypercard etc

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Simple and easily understood metaphor for
Event-driven tools

organizing multimedia elements  visual programming approach

Objects  Quick organization
 Buttons
Elements and interaction cues
 Text fields  Organized as objects in a flowchart
 Graphic objects
Flowchart

Linking objects to pages or cards  Drag and drop icons from a library, and then adding
the content.

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Best suited for messages with a beginning and Director:

an end  A multimedia database, ‘Cast’, contains still images, sound
files, text, shapes, scripts, movies, and other Director files.

Facilitate navigation and interactive control  Score is a sequencer for displaying, animating, and playing

Examples: Cast members.
 Lingo is an object-oriented scripting language that enables
 Macromedia’s Director interactivity and programmed control.
 Flash
Flash:
 Flash is used for delivering rich multimedia content to the Web.
 It allows the creation of simple static HTML pages with the
Flash Player plug-in.

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Macintosh and Windows computers use
CDROM-Based Authoring Tools

different schemes to manage text and colors.  multimedia-based authoring tools

While using text fields, ensure that the text  Internet or Web-enabled (have Internet ‘play’
displays correctly on both platforms. capabilities)

Outline and shadow styles on text should be
Web-Based Authoring Tools

avoided on Macintosh since they are not  WWW publishing tools
currently supported in Windows.  mostly used by developers

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