INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS

INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA TOOLS

Tools for Image, Video, Animation and Sound, Compression and Coding.

Imaging Tools
Paint Shop Pro Adobe Photoshop Corel Draw ACDSee Graphics workshop for Windows (GWS) GIF Construction Set (GCS) FreeHand

Audio Tools
Cool Edit Sound Forge Wave Flow CODEC Audacity MpegEnc MPlifer

Streaming Multimedia
Real Audio Shockwave Streamworks Toolvox

Animation Tools
3D Studio Max Macromedia Flash Animator Studio Elastic Reality (Macs) 3Space Publisher SoftImage LightWave 3D Infini-D (Macs)

Text Tools
Fontographer Type-Designer FontMonger(Macs) FontChameleon

Video Tools
Windows Movie Maker Macromedia Director Macromedia BackStage Adobe Premiere Adobe After Effects iMovie (Macs) Media Cleaner Pro

Development Stages
Conceptualization and Design Collection and development of content Construction/authoring (publish on web) Testing/evaluation Distribution

Compression and Decompression Multimedia Authoring Tools

Page-based (Web/HTML) Temporal Based (Flash/Director) Icon Based (Authorware) Object-Oriented Tools