Multimedia: Making It Work, Fifth Edition - Softcover

Vaughan, Tay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072190957 ISBN 13: 9780072190953

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2001

Synopsis

Introduces multimedia platforms and projects; discusses text, audio, and still and moving images; and covers multimedia design, hardware, software, installation, packaging, color, video, CD-ROM, and Web production.

About this title

Review

A veritable multimedia bible, this book takes both Mac and Windows users through a discussion of current multimedia hardware and software and describes the elements of video, audio, graphics, and animation, leading up to guidance on polishing and delivering professional multimedia projects. Vaughan provides case studies of successful multimedia companies and projects along the way. This third edition improves upon the previous edition by discussing Web production and such tools as Macromedia Shockwave, RealAudio, VRML, and JavaScript. It comes with two hybrid CDs with demos and trial versions of such tools as Macromedia Director and FreeHand. Highly recommended for anyone making his or her way through the field of multimedia production.

From the Back Cover

Create Sizzling Multimedia for the Web!

Take advantage of the latest Web, hardware, and software technologies, and produce powerful multimedia with this revised and updated edition of Tay Vaughan's best-seller. Multimedia: Making It Work, Fifth Edition, offers a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to creating effective multimedia from one of the multimedia industry's most renowned experts. You'll learn all about the components and processes, then begin building your own projects, from simple boardroom presentations to dynamic corporate CD-ROMs to Web sites that come alive. Widely used at colleges and universities around the world, this proven learning tool will help you:

• Understand the fundamental building blocks of multimedia, including text, images, motion video, sound, and interactivity.
• Execute all the elements of multimedia--text, images, motion, and sound--in real working situations.
• Get an inside perspective on the multimedia industry's shift from CD-ROMs to Web production.
• Get help and expert tips at every step, from conceptualizing and financing your project, through the final stages of design, production, and testing.
• Learn lessons through on-the-job accounts from industry professionals and compelling First Person stories from the author.
• PLUS--learn to use the hottest multimedia development and authoring tools. The bonus Macromedia CD features cross-platform trial versions of Director, Studio, Dreamweaver, Extreme 3D, SoundEdit, Fontographer, and more!

Whether you're a novice or a pro, you can learn how to create show-stopping results when you use this highly respected, best-selling multimedia primer.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0072190957
• ISBN 13: 9780072190953
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 600