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Meaning
The tools by which various media components are brought together (integrated) into a structure and flow.
The integration of audio, video, graphics and text on the desktop promises to fundamentally challenge the centuries-old model of the printed document as the basis for information exchange. Before this potential can be realized, however, systems must be devised that enable the production and presentation of complex, inter-related media objects. These systems are generically called multimedia authoring tools.
Authoring can be described as creating highly interactive applications in which the information can flow in both the directions i.e., from application to user and from user to application. Multimedia authoring tools has helped in creating higher-quality audio and video applications with very little expertise.
Authoring does not require a team of programmers, Instructors, corporate communications, and content specialists with no previous programming experience should be able to learn and use the authoring environment. At large, authoring programs could be grouped into the following two distinct types:
- Those that relied entirely on point and click, and
- Those that required simple scripting.
Multimedia authoring tools can be evaluated by performing certain tests, which include the creation of non-interactive multimedia, computer-based training (CBT) applications, catalog creation and even authoring for the World Wide Web. The advantage of using object-oriented programming has been inculcated in the authoring products like Everest Authoring System offers object instancing, while Media Verse and Oracle Media Objects allows to add new methods and events to existing objects.
Authoring Metaphors : Most media integration tools will take or use one of the following metaphors:
Movie screen metaphor : refers to the product of the authoring: Linear/Interactive movie Also refers to authoring tools paradigm that contains Cast/Score/Scripting.
Example: Macromedia Director(Figure1, Figure2 & Figure3)
Features of Authoring Tools
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