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- MultiMedia Experience is available to users of this demo for £34.95
- (R.R.P. £39.95.)
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- Simply contact Carl Gamble at:-
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- Optonica Limited
- 1 The Terrace
- High Street
- Lutterworth
- Leicestershire
- LE17 6BA
- ENGLAND
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- TEL: +44 (0)1455 558282
- FAX: +44 (0)1455 559386
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- email: kev@optonica.demon.co.uk
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- VISA and ACCESS payments accepted. All orders are dispatched via first
- class post on the day the order is received. Trade enquiries are also
- welcome.
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- System Requirements
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- MultiMedia Experience (M.M.E.) will run on all Amigas with at least 2mb
- however 4mb will enhance its performance. A hard drive is recommended.
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- About MultiMedia Experience
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- MultiMedia Experience is a simple to use but incredibly powerful multi-
- media authoring system for all Amiga computers.
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- The program allows you to quickly and easily combine your own graphics,
- animations, music modules, sound samples and even CDXL motion video into
- professional looking stand alone presentations. Create stunning looking
- menu systems, slide shows, program launches and much more from hard drive
- or floppy disk, the possibilities are endless.
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- The complete version of M.M.E. is supplied with a free distribution
- player so that productions can be circulated amongst friends, family or
- into the public domain as stand alone programs.
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- About This Demo Version
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- This demo version of M.M.E. is a complete working program. All functions
- are enabled so that you can appreciate it's true power. The only
- limitation is that the program will only allow you to create 10 pages.
- Also the free distribution run-time player is NOT included with this demo.
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- About Optonica
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- Optonica Ltd are probably the oldest multimedia company in the UK. We
- produce quality multimedia software that is both powerful and easy to
- use. In addition to our software we are able to offer the following
- multimedia services:-
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- 3D and 2D graphics production
- Video conversion to CD (Amiga & PC formatsare supported)
- MPEG1 encoding
- Gold disk cutting
- Photo scanning
- 16/8 bit sound sampling
- Video production
- CD replication
- Desktop publishing
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- Should you require any of these services for your multimedia production
- please contact us - our details are at the beginning of this text file.
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- Using M.M.E.
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- M.M.E. is an incredibly easy to use authoring package which comes with an
- on-line help system included in this demo version. Simply move the
- pointer to the area on the screen that you want help with and press
- 'help.' An explanation of the function and how it works will then appear.
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- M.M.E. is a page based authoring system. So that you can get to grips
- with the basics of the program, there follows a brief description of how
- to create a basic page within M.M.E. The full version of the program
- comes complete with a ring bound manual containing tutorials and detailed
- examples of page creation.
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- After installing M.M.E. and loading the program you will be faced with
- the opening screen. First of all you need to create a new project as you
- are starting from scratch. Click on the 'ADD PAGE' button.
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- M.M.E. recognises that this is the first page of a project and asks where
- you would like your project to be stored and for you to name the project.
- Type your projects name in the box next to the 'ACCEPT' button then click
- 'ACCEPT.'
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- IMPORTANT NOTE - MME forces you to keep all your media files in the same
- directory your project is resident in. This means that
- the files you wish to use within your project will have
- to be copied to that directory. This is so that when the
- project is published you will know that all your files
- are present and correct within your projects directory.
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- You will then be faced with a blank page and the 'PAGE NAME' box will
- have a number inserted. Click on this box, delete the numbers and type in
- the name of your first page e.g. 'PAGE 1' and press RETURN
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- Click on the 'PAGE BOXES' icon. It is the square shaped icon just above
- the 'M' in M.M.E. Then click on 'IMAGE' then 'ADD.' The panel will
- disappear and you will be able to position your box on the screen.
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- After drawing out your box size you will be asked for the image to be
- placed in it which can be any type of IFF file. If the image is not the
- same size as the box you have drawn you will be asked if you want to snap
- the box to the image size.
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- There are a variety of different box styles so try experimenting with
- them to find your favorite.
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- The next step is to add a media clip to the box you have drawn so that
- when your box is selected an action is performed. These actions can be
- displaying a picture, playing an animation, playing a CDXL video file,
- displaying another page within the project or playing a music module or
- sound effect. In this case the action will be the playing of a sound
- sample.
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- First highlight your box then click on the media clip icon (the square
- shaped icon with the diagonal red, green and blue.) The panel will change
- to display the events in the media clip along with associated
- information.
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- Click ADD and you will see that an event named EMPTY is added and
- highlighted.
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- To add your sample to this media clip, click with the left mouse button
- on the left-most cross underneath EMPTY to highlight it. Hold down the
- right button and a list of icons will appear underneath. Highlight the
- loudspeaker icon and release the button.
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- Select the sound sample you wish to play and click ACCEPT.
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- The sample is now loaded and will be played when the button is selected.
- To test this out click on the 'GO' button on the top right of the main
- panel. You will be in the RUN TIME SIMULATION. Click on your box to test
- out your media clip. To escape back to the main panel, press the space
- bar.
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- Other types of media clips are accessed by holding down the right mouse
- button then the pointer is positioned over the EMPTY box.
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- Try creating more boxes and experimenting with the different types of
- media clip available as there are many more types and different ways in
- which you manipulate them, far too many to go into in this brief
- tutorial. The manual included with the full version explains in detail
- how each media clip works and how you can manipulate them along with all
- of the other functions of the program.
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