Multimedia authoring tools have two main features - the ability to create and edit products, and to deliver the final product. There are four perspectives to consider - the tool, product, developer, and end user. Tools have features like pages to contain content, controls for interaction and navigation, and different types of execution. Authoring tools can be categorized as simple like word processors, programming tools that require coding skills, or complex interactive tools that balance ease of use and powerful features.

1. Topic Outline
 What is multimedia Authoring tools.
 Multimedia tools features
 Categories of multimedia authoring
tools.

2. AUTHORING TOOLS
 Have 2 basic features:
Ability to create and edit product.
A presentation scheme for
delivering the product.

3. AUTHORING TOOLS
Four main perspectives in multimedia authoring tools
:
 Tool (any software package that could authors multimedia product)
 Product (the result of combining all multimedia components)
 Developer (designers, programmers, and multimedia authors)
 End user (customer or viewer)

4. MULTIMEDIA TOOL FEATURES
PAGE
 Different environments use different term
of page such as frame,stage, template,or
window
 Act as a container for other features or
object such as text or graphic content or
controls such as buttons.

5. MULTIMEDIA TOOL FEATURES
CONTROLS
 Enables interaction between user and
product.
 Managing or direct sequences of events
(data
 collection,data objects)
 3 categories of controls:
Navigation (buttons, hot spots, hypertext)
Input (radio button, check box, list box,
text)

6. MULTIMEDIA TOOL FEATURES
EXECUTION
 Process that control the presentations
and sequencing of the application.
 Linear sequenced:
Presentation control by user.
 Temporal control:
 Control by timer that initiates event in a
predetermine order.
 Interactive control:
 - wait for user to select a function such as
pressing button before continue.

7. CATEGORIES OF AUTHORING
TOOLS
 Simple authoring tools: word processor
and presentation software.
 Programming tools: enables developer
to create applications with data and
controls for basic interactivity.
 Simple interactive authoring tools:
enables the developer to create
applications with data and controls for
basic interactivity.
 Complex interactive authoring tools:
allow developer to use programming

8. SIMPLE AUTHORING &
DELIVERY TOOLS
 Word
processors:
provide ability to
display text in
variety of font
types, sizes and
color.
 Enable user to
develop very
simple
presentations.

9. SIMPLE AUTHORING &
DELIVERY TOOLS
 Graphic software: ranges from simple to
complex, include powerful paint programs.
 Useful to create graphics that can be
placed in other applications.
 Avoid use red and green color as a cue
color because color blind individuals
cannot see them correctly.

10. SIMPLE AUTHORING &
DELIVERY TOOLS
 Presentation Packages:
 Provide a multiple page-based medium for
text and graphic with content delivers as a
sequential series of slides.
 Also contain audio and video as embedded
objects.

11. PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES FOR
AUTHORING
 Multimedia
products can be
developed by
assembly
languages, C,
BASIC.
 Advantages:
 Languages like C
and assembly
languages very
efficient & fast.
 Easy integration
 Disadvantages:
 Programming
expertise is require
to create and
maintain the
product.
 Much more code is
required making
long term
maintenance
difficult &

12. SIMPLE INTERACTIVE
AUTHORING TOOLS
 Provide critical feature of being able to
interactivity navigate through a product.
 Simple refer to limited interaction available
for end user.

13. SIMPLE INTERACTIVE
AUTHORING TOOLS
 Advantages:
Easy to learn,
provide a
number of
powerful
interactive
features.
Reasonable
price
 Disadvantages:
Difficult to
integrate with
other
applications.

14. COMPLEX INTERACTIVE
AUTHORING TOOLS
 Combine feature in simple interactive
tools with programming features.
 3 categories:
Page/Card based layout
Temporal/Time based
Icon based.

15. PAGE/CARD BASED
AUTHORING
 Navigation is referred to the number of
page.
 Each page consists of layer(s).
 Example: Toolbook, Hypercard 2.4,
Hyperstudio, Supercard.

16. PAGE/CARD BASED
AUTHORING

17. TEMPORAL/TIME BASED
AUTHORING
 Has the ability to develop an application like a movie.
 Can create complex animation and transitions.

18. TEMPORAL/TIME BASED
AUTHORING
 Features:
A page or display frame on which object
such as button, text or audio/video data
are placed.
An array for keeping track of
pages/frames including their sequence,
timing and content.
Controller for playing stopping, stepping
or rewind a presentations.

19. TEMPORAL/TIME BASED
AUTHORING
 Example: Macromedia Director, Flash

20. ICON BASED AUTHORING
 Enables complex interaction and layering
of multimedia products.
 Ability to graphically design complex
interaction for repetitive application.
 Example : Macromedia Authorware

21. ICON BASED AUTHORING