Mutlimedia authoring tools

Mutlimedia authoring tools

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  Multimedia Authoring Tools
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  Multimedia Authoring Tools •Multimedia authoring tools provide the framework for organizing and editing the elements of a multimedia project. • Authoring software provides an integrated environment for combining the content and functions of a project. • It enables the developer to combine text, graphics, audio, video, and animation into an interactive presentation/ project. 2
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  Multimedia Authoring Tools •Authoring systems include editing tools to create, edit, and convert multimedia elements such as animation and video clips. • The organization, design, and production process for multimedia involves storyboarding and flowcharting. • Visual flowcharting or overview facility illustrates project structure at a macro level. 3
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  Features of AuthoringTools • Basic features includes: – Editing and organizing features. – Programming features. – Interactivity features. – Performance tuning and playback features. – Delivery, cross-platform, and Internet playability features. 4
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  Types of AuthoringTools • Card- and page-based tools. • Icon-based, event-driven tools. • Time-based tools. • Web Page Authoring tools. 5
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  Card & Page- Based Tools • This tool provide a simple and easily understood metaphor for organizing multimedia elements. • It contains media objects such as buttons, text fields, and graphic objects. • It provides a facility for linking objects to pages or cards. • Software: Hypercard – linked cards ToolBook – each page is a screen 6
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  Card & Page- Based Tools • Advantages: – Easy to understand metaphor – 1 screen = 1 card = 1 page – Easy to use • Provide template • Short development time • Disadvantages: – Some run only on one platform – Tools not as powerful as equiv. stand-alones 7
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  Card & Page- Based Tools 8
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  Icon Based –Event Driven Tool • Icons or objects based authoring tool is the simplest and easiest authoring process. • Simple branching is the ability to go to another section of the multimedia production. • Multimedia elements and interaction cues are organized as objects in a flowchart. • Flowchart can be built by dragging appropriate icons from a library, and then adding the content. • Software: Authorware and IconAuthor. 9
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  Icon Based –Event Driven Tool • Advantages: • Clear structure. • Easy editing and updating. • Disadvantages: – Difficult to learn. – Expensive. 10
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  Time-Based Tools • Thistools are best suited for messages with a beginning and an end. • Some time-based tools facilitate navigation and interactive control. • Software: Adobe’s Director and Flash. 11
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  Time-Based Tools Macromedia Director: •A multimedia database, ‘Cast’, contains still images, sound files, text, shapes, scripts, movies, and other Director files. • Score is a sequencer for displaying, animating, and playing Cast members. • Lingo is an object-oriented scripting language that enables interactivity and programmed control. 12
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  Time-Based Tools • Advantages: – Good for creating animation – Branching, user control, interactivity • Disadvantages: – Expensive – Steep learning curve for advanced features 13
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  Time-Based Tools 14
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  Time-Based Tools • MacromediaFlash: – 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. 15
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  Time-Based Tools • Advantages: – Easy to put animated and interactive movies. – Interactive menus. • Disadvantages: – Increase in file size. – Music and sound files embedded in Flash movies increase file sizes and increases the download time. 16
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  Web Page AuthoringTools • Allows users of all skill levels to create Web pages. • Some application software programs include Web page authoring programs. • Adobe Dreamweaver allow to create web pages without learning the underlying HTML. • Software: Adobe Dreamweaver, Front page 17
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  Web Page AuthoringTools 18