A crucial thing about these workshops is that people want to produce something that looks good, and means something, but don't want to have to invest months in teaching themselves up to know something like Photoshop and Director. We don't particularly want to knock these programs, but they're cultured up to be useful really only to experts. The way the workshops run is based around the structure of the Linker. There's one or more computers running the program and ways of getting material into it. A video camera and some cheap digital cameras to produce the still or moving images.
Sound comes in from off of the video or straight into the computer's mic.
A simple sound editor program can be used to edit and add effects. The text is banged out directly on the machine. Other stuff can come off the net, CDs, wherever. Our own people. Until we made the Linker software there was a huge technical barrier.