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Unit 9: Working with Animation

8. Icon Author handles multimedia objects with ............ notes
( a) CD/Kiosk (b) ODBC
( c) aplomb (d) None of these

9. The slide strip window for each presentation contains either thumb nails or file
information.

( a) True (b) False
10. The RTF stands for .................
( a) rich template format (b) resource text format

( c) rich text framework (d) None of these.

9.4 summary

• Authoring systems are menu-driven systems intended to be easy to use by the multimedia
developer.
• Authoring software is the main production tool for multimedia.
• Many add-on boards and peripheral devices include specialized DLLs upon installation.
• Authoring software allows full control of CD-drives to integrate audio, video and computer
files.
• The ImageQ presentations comprise a series of background images and associated control
scripts that add user interface controls, overlay images and underlying programming to
each slide.
9.5 Keywords

authoring system: An authoring system is a program which has pre-programmed elements for
the development of interactive multimedia software titles.

DvD authoring software: It is a digital video tool that is designed to covert the default output
file of your video camera into DVD format.

everest authoring system 1.5: It is best suited for the developers of CBT applications who seek
a powerful but easy-to-use windows-based authoring environment.

Hypertext programming interfaces: It allows users to select individual Hot Words on a screen
which are further linked to additional pages and layers of text.
icon author: It is an authoring tool requires the use of an icon-based flowchart for building an
application.
script language programs: It create multimedia presentations from a series of programming style
commands linked together in a word processing typescript.

1. Edit a video clip using Windows Movie maker.

2. By using video processing tools, convert .wmv file into mpeg.

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