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| VNS MediaAuthor is a multimedia run-time application and authoring tool that creates and organizes information for presentation. If you have a need to distribute product or services information using text, graphics, animation, audio, and video materials on a CD-ROM with user interactivity, then MediaAuthor may be the solution. MediaAuthor was designed to make so called desktop catalog creation simple, without losing the art of multimedia presentations. The paradigm is an interactive catalog containing pages of multimedia objects that are presented in a specified fashion either automatically or based upon user selectable criteria. A database contains all of the catalog information and related formatting information. The authoring tool allows the designer to position buttons, text, questions and other materials on each page quickly and easily. | |
The MediaAuthor desktop catalog is
both a run-time application and a multimedia authoring tool for creation
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The VNS MediaAuthor Solution
MediaAuthor is a multimedia runtime and authoring authoring tool that makes creating an electronic media easy. It is a hard disk or CD-ROM based, interactive run-time program on a personal computer designed to display graphics, text, animations, audio and video professionally as the user interactively chooses the topics. As an electronic desktop catalog, VNS MediaAuthor is designed for companies who have a need to present large amounts of information using the latest in multimedia technology. As a CD-ROM based program, the VNS MediaAuthor has plenty of storage space for limitless products and/or services, incorporating audio and video to communicate the most complex of offerings, and a mouse on a mulitmedia PC (i.e.; a dual speed CD-ROM drive, an audio board and Video For Windows software installed). |
The VNS MediaAuthor designed CD-ROM met all of the client's requirements:
Audio and video information Totally interactive presetnation Financial experts descussing the pros and cons of financial decision-making Customizable presentation for predetermined customers Ability to access Variable Annuities database as well as a Mutual Funds database Application designed for future internet conversion
Programming inVisual Basic Installation software using WISE Install Microsoft ACCESS Databases engine Keyword searches Automatic playback option Run-time debugging tool Network capable
· Database driven catalog using Microsoft ACCESS · SQL access to the database using ODBC · Choice of display buttons or Index listings for navigation · Keyword search feature to find all related topics · Full navigation capabilities · Text displayed over any image; professional appearance · Multiple page display "profiles" to alter the displayed format; for example, video first, then audio, or reversed · Score keeping for Question and Answers · Order "FAX back" to the factory to place orders · Reader Service literature FAX back to the factory · Transition with delays for selection between images · Hotspot "Popup" text to further define a text display · "Links" or "jumps" to other catalog pages · Text created using Microsoft word · Help facilities to guide the user · Mouse "pick and poke" or touch screen for kiosks · Automatic single cycle and continuous playback of selected portions of the catalog · Ability to demonstrate other software applications throughout the catalog · Complete video/audio control; start. stop, rewind, etc. · Automatic cycling of audio and video without user intervention if desired · Digitized audio and video playback with auto time-out if user does not respond
· Corporate and/or client training media
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