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- MAEstro Software Multimedia Authoring Environment Demonstration Script
-
- I. Introduction
-
- A. Welcome. For the next few minutes, you will be led on a tour of
- the MAEstro Software Multimedia Authoring Environment. To pause this
- demonstration at any time, press the Pause button on the front panel
- of the TimeLine Editor application. Press Pause again to resume the
- demonstration.
-
- B. The MAEstro Software Multimedia Authoring Environment is an
- expandable suite of applications to simplify thetask of creating
- multimedia documents. MAEstro Software's goal is to give you a rich
- toolkit that lets you control information in ways that we cannot
- imagine and ways that suit you best.
-
- i) For example, use the applications together to create multimedia
- presentations such as this one.
-
- ii) Or, use individual MAEstro media editors to enhance and augment your
- custom software applications.
-
- iii) Use the "maestro talk" application to create your own scripted
- documents instead of using the graphically-based TimeLine Editor
- that you see here.
-
- C. There are endless possibilities. This package includes sample
- software so you can begin to explore some of those possibilities.
-
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- II. Describing MAEstro Software's Product
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- A. Here are some of the tools to help you create multimedia documents.
-
- B. The TimeLine Editor is the basic authoring application in the
- environment. It controls the performance of a document and makes it
- easy for you to create documents.
-
- C. This document has five tracks, one for each media application
- being used by the document. The role of each application used here
- will be described during this demonstration.
-
- D. Pause markers are one of many TimeLine features, and have been
- sprinkled through the document at good stopping points to give you a
- break. Pause markers are noted by red vertical bars. When you reach
- a pause marker, TimeLine's Pause button will light. To continue
- playback, press the Pause or Play button.
-
- E. The Digital Tape Recorder application is used for recording and
- playback of SPARCaudio. Use it to add voice or musical annotations to
- other documents. DigitalTapeRecorder takes advantage of the full
- range of audio quality on Sun's Ultra workstation, from 8 kilohertz
- phone quality to CD and DAT high-quality stereo audio.
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- F. DisplayTool is the slideshow component of the environment. Use
- DisplayTool to browse a Gallery of images in several common formats,
- including TIFF, JPEG, Sun Raster, and others. Drag images from the
- Gallery into the Slide area to create your own slideshows.
-
- G. There are more than ten MAEstro Software applications to help you,
- with more on the way. And authorship with all MAEstro applications is
- easy: just open the document you want, select the part of the document
- you want to perform, then click on the TimeLine where you want it to
- be performed. Then use TimeLine to see your results.
-
- H. This demonstration won't describe in detail all of the MAEstro
- Software authoring tools. We encourage you to try them for yourself,
- to get a taste of what you can do with with MAEstro's product.
-
- I. The purchased product comes User's and Programmer's Guides and six
- months of free support. And, as a promotional offering for
- UltraComputing, MAEstro Software is offering the product for $500.
- That's pretty much half off the regular price. And, volume and
- educational discounts still apply.
-
- J. The current suite of applications is just the beginning. MAEstro
- Software's goal is to support new and exciting applications and media.
- As a demonstration, this package includes MAEstro-ready versions of
- the NCSA Mosaic Web browser and XAnim animation movie player. The
- MAEstro Messaging System makes it easy to add new capabilities to your
- authoring toolchest. Contact MAEstro Software for more information on
- integrating your custom software with the MAEstro Software
- environment.
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- III. Conclusion
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- A. This concludes our demonstration of MAEstro Software's Multimedia
- Authoring Environment. Please feel free to explore for yourself by
- modifying this document, or create your own documents.
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- B. Thank you for trying MAEstro Software's product.
-
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- - User's Guide
- - Programmer's Guide
- - Six months free support:
- * includes software upgrades
-
- Promotional Pricing: $500 / license
- * down from $995
-
-
-
-
- Educational & Volume discounts still apply
- (see http://www.mae.com/ for details)
-