Gold Disk Inc. Ships Gold Disk Instant Multimedia for Microsoft PowerPoint.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 27, 1995--Gold Disk Inc., leaders in the development of multimedia presentation software for the desktop today announced the shipping of its latest addition to the company's arsenal of business productivity tools, Gold Disk Instant Multimedia for PowerPoint. Gold Disk Instant Multimedia is a simple and inexpensive way for PowerPoint presenters to deliver high-impact multimedia presentations seamlessly using only three easy steps: 1. Select a PowerPoint presentation; 2. Choose from one of several animation styles and 3. Press Play! This utility program is available for $49.95. "Of the more than 10 million Microsoft Office Microsoft's primary desktop applications for Windows and Mac. Depending on the package, it includes some combination of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Outlook along with various Internet and other utilities. users world-wide, more than 20 percent are regularly using PowerPoint to create, deliver and distribute presentations," said Kailash Ambwani, Chairman of Gold Disk. "Gold Disk Instant Multimedia for PowerPoint is a low-cost, very easy-to-use utility that enables any presentation created with a PowerPoint template to be delivered on-screen on·screen or on-screen adj. & adv. 1. As shown on a movie, television, or display screen. 2. Within public view; in public. with high-impact animation, background sound, and music." Gold Disk Instant Multimedia is intended to serve as a playback utility and not a presentation editing environment. All of its features are designed to optimize multimedia playback. It is straight-forward with little or no learning curve. "The tremendous increase in portable computing and projection devices is making it easier and easier for companies to deliver their presentations electronically. Our goal in designing this easy-to-use PowerPoint add-on utility is to give even the most casual PowerPoint user the tools to turn a static, not-so-interesting presentation into something dynamic," continued Ambwani. The current version of the product supports all PowerPoint 4.0 templates and layouts. Any user who has created a presentation with one of the templates found in PowerPoint 4.0 can use Gold Disk Instant Multimedia. Future versions of the product will support new PowerPoint for Windows 95 templates. Using Instant Multimedia for PowerPoint is as easy as 1-2-3 Step 1: After launching Gold Disk Instant Multimedia, the user hits the Open button and selects an existing PowerPoint presentation of their choice. Step 2: The user is given a choice of twenty different multimedia animation styles to choose from for playback. Each Multimedia style will animate the template, background objects found on that template, text and charts. In addition, each multimedia style comes with a preconfigured Set up ahead of time. It implies that the device or software application has been modified to suit the customer or situation. See ghosting server. timeline so that all objects transition logically and smoothly. Step 3: A single click on the Preview window will play the current slide so that the user can see how the selected multimedia style will affect playback. Once the user selects a multimedia style, clicking on the Play button will play the entire PowerPoint presentation. Features for Customized Use Gold Disk Instant Multimedia for PowerPoint comes with additional features that allow for optional customization by the user. These features include: Slide Settings: Allows users to add sound to specific slides, or across slides, set slide durations, and turn on or off chart animation. Playback Options: Allows users to alter slide advancement, set color and style for Notation notation: see arithmetic and musical notation. How a system of numbers, phrases, words or quantities is written or expressed. Positional notation is the location and value of digits in a numbering system, such as the decimal or binary system. pens, and pause options during text and chart transitions. Save and distribute: Once a user has picked a multimedia style and set the remaining options for playback they have three save options: Standard File Save, Save As Astound a·stound tr.v. a·stound·ed, a·stound·ing, a·stounds To astonish and bewilder. See Synonyms at surprise. [From Middle English astoned, past participle of astonen, and Save Self-Running. The Standard save command allows the user to save the style and playback settings associated with each PowerPoint presentation. The Astound option creates a file in Gold Disk's Astound for Windows format. The Self-Running option creates a self-contained executable copy of the presentation (.exe) that can be freely distributed to other users. System Requirements To be used efficiently, all computer software needs certain hardware components or other software resources to be present on a computer system. These pre-requisites are known as (computer) system requirements and are often used as a guideline as opposed to an absolute rule. Instant Multimedia minimum requirements: 486 PC with 8 MB RAM, Windows 3.1 or Windows 95. Pricing, Availability, Distribution Instant Multimedia for PowerPoint is currently available with a suggested retail price of $49.95. The product will be carried by national distributors including: Ingram Micro Ingram Micro, Inc. NYSE: IM a Fortune 100 company founded in 1979 and based in Santa Ana, California. It is the world’s largest technology distributor and a leading technology sales, marketing and logistics company. , Merisel, TechData and will be available through all major retailers. Users can receive a free 10-day trial version of the product by accessing the "What's New" section of Gold Disk's home page at http://www.golddisk.com. Company Background Gold Disk Inc. is a U.S. company with Research and Development, Manufacturing, and Support operations headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario For the First Nation, see . Mississauga (pronounced: [ˌmɪsɪˈsɑgə] listen , and Executive, Sales and Marketing management operating from Santa Clara. The company develops and publishes Astound for Macintosh and Windows, the award-winning software that enables the creation (authoring) and presentation (playback) of high-impact multimedia presentations on Windows-based PCs and Apple Macintosh Apple Macintosh - Macintosh computers. The company also publishes VideoDirector, a family of best-selling best·sell·er also best seller n. A product, such as a book, that is among those sold in the largest numbers. best consumer software for camcorder owners to easily edit the highlights of their home camcorder tapes onto VCR VCR: see videocassette recorder. VCR in full videocassette recorder Electromechanical device that records, stores on a videotape cassette, and plays back on a TV set recorded images and sound. tapes with the use of their home Windows or Macintosh computers. A new addition to the Gold Disk family of products is Studio M. Studio M empowers consumers to easily create personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. animated greeting cards See e-card. , multimedia photo albums, interactive party announcements and a myriad of other personal projects. Gold Disk Inc. is a privately-held company. -0- Note to Editors: Microsoft PowerPoint is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corp. CONTACT: Gold Disk Karen Garske, 408/982-0200 ext. 123 Hal Patnaik, 905/602-4000 ext. 103 |
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