Macromedia Director MX 2004: Macromedia.www.macromedia.com/go/ dirmx2004, Software, $1,119/$399 for upgrades Students can use this authoring tool to develop multimedia projects, such as school yearbooks and learning games, then save them as CDs or DVDs. They can create interactive content for fixed media and the Internet and incorporate photo-quality images, full-screen of long-form digital video, sounds, animation, 3-D models, text, hypertext hypertext, technique for organizing computer databases or documents to facilitate the nonsequential retrieval of information. Related pieces of information are connected by preestablished or user-created links that allow a user to follow associative trails across the , bitmaps and Macromedia Flash content. The software adds support for JavaScript, Macromedia Flash MX 2004 content and DVD-video playback Playback could mean:
This approach was used earlier in the 1970s when cathode ray tubes would draw line segments representing edges of a BREP. . Its video capabilities allow developers to incorporate video files in DVD-Video, Windows Media Microsoft's audio and video framework for Windows, which embraces playback, encoding and streaming. Windows Media Player is the digital jukebox and media player that comes with every version of Windows. , RealMedia, QuickTime and Flash Video formats. Users can also embed em·bed also im·bed v. em·bed·ded, em·bed·ding, em·beds v.tr. 1. To fix firmly in a surrounding mass: embed a post in concrete; fossils embedded in shale. , control and playback DVD-Video content within multimedia projects. The workspace is entirely customizable, enabling educators to tailor both the stage and movie-in-a-window docks for better workspace management. Also new is Macromedia Breeze ($9,750), which allows Web users to participate in live, online meetings without downloading special plug-ins or media players. Collaboration features include application sharing A data conferencing capability that lets two or more users interactively work on the same application at the same time. The application is loaded and running in only one machine; however, keystrokes are transmitted from and screen changes are transmitted to the other participants. , trackable live polls, file transfer and vector-based whiteboards that can be edited. CIRCLE #516 FOR INFORMATION |
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