This document discusses various tools used for creating interactive multimedia content including imaging tools like Photoshop, audio tools like Audacity, animation tools like Flash, video tools like Windows Movie Maker, and authoring tools like Director. It also outlines the development stages of conceptualization, content creation, construction, testing, and distribution as well as tools for compression and decompression of multimedia files.

1. INTERACTIVE
MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS
INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA TOOLS
Tools for Image, Video, Animation and Sound,
Compression and Coding.

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

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

4. Streaming Multimedia
• Real Audio
• Shockwave
• Streamworks
• Toolvox

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

6. Text Tools
• Fontographer
• Type-Designer
• FontMonger(Macs)
• FontChameleon

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

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

9. Compression and
Decompression
Multimedia Authoring Tools
• Page-based (Web/HTML)
• Temporal Based (Flash/Director)
• Icon Based (Authorware)
• Object-Oriented Tools

10. Compression and
Decompression
Multimedia Authoring Tools
• Page-based (Web/HTML)
• Temporal Based (Flash/Director)
• Icon Based (Authorware)
• Object-Oriented Tools