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Understanding multimedia authoring
Effects-and-actions-based multimedia authoring is an exciting new approach to creating high-quality content that gives perks to both designers and viewers.
People designing multimedia with Electrifier Pro benefit from a streamlined and sophisticated work sequence that takes the pain out of constructing multimedia that contains animation and interactivity.
Electrifier Pro offers a new way to create animation. Instead of making a set of sequential frames, each depicting an incremental change, designers using Electrifier Pro work with drag-and-drop "Intelligent" effects. These modifiers allow the user to instruct content how to change over time. Users can customize start time, duration, and a variety of other variables. The Intelligent effects follow these instructions and instantaneously generate the desired result.
People viewing animations created with Intelligent effects get the best experience possible, since content created in Electrifier Pro can auto-adjust to suit the viewer's hardware. During playback, frames are synthesized on the fly by the viewer's system, which results in smooth delivery on a wide range of machines.
Electrifier Pro also offers a new way to create interactivity. Designers creating content with Electrifier can easily make their multimedia interactive by choosing from a large selection of drag-and-drop actions instead of having to write interaction scripts for every actor.
Since it is so easy for designers to apply Electrifier Pro's sophisticated actions, viewers benefit from the fact that multimedia created with Electrifier Pro has more interactivity. In fact, a single trigger such as a mouse click can activate multiple actions.
For more information
For detailed information about Electrifier Pro's effects and actions, see the Modifier palette section of the Window and Palette Reference.
What is Electrifier Pro? | Understanding the Interface | Understanding Multimedia Authoring | Understanding Movies, Actors, and Sprite Tracks
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