For example, if a film clip is not used then a video specialist is not needed. The hardware and software tools necessary for typical projects are reviewed in a reasonable amount of detail. References to other resources are abundantly provided and in particular many Web sources are provided. Tips and traps of the trade are also sprinkled throughout One complete section is devoted to media software. The application of various painting, drawing, image editing, OCR, sound editing, video and animation tools is described.
Special attention is given to multimedia authoring tools.
A demo version of Micromedia Director with its two major components, Overview and Studio, are included on a CD-ROM which comes with the book. Another section provides some history and the features of hypertext, hypermedia and how links, nodes and anchors are used in hypertext indexing. Avoid getting lost in hyperspace by reading this section of the book. The subject of cross platform problems comes up and is described frequently in the book. Text, sound, pictures, animations and videos painstakingly developed on one platform may bomb when moved to another platform and the author provides some useful guidelines for anticipating and avoiding the problems.