Department of Information Technology

Govt. College Women University Faisalabad

Spring 2020
Assignment 1

Submitted by: Aiman Atique Roll no: 18-105

Assignment 1 Marks: 3 Submission Date: 29th April 2021

Q1: Write down note on Multimedia Authoring and search any eight tools of
authoring write the feature of these Multimedia Authoring tools?
Multimedia Authoring Tools are also known as Author ware. It is a program that helps the user
writes Hypertext or multimedia application. Authoring tools usually enable a user to create a
final application merely linking together. Objects such as paragraph of text, illustration or song
can be embedded in a web page with the help of authoring tools. Multimedia authoring tools
provide the frame work for organizing and editing the elements of multimedia projects.
Authoring software provides an integrated element for combining the content and the functions
of the project. It enables the developer to combine text, graphics, audio, video and animation into
an interactive presentation.
Features of Authoring Tools
 Basic features
 Editing and organizing features
 Programming features
 Interactivity features
 Performance timing and playback features
 Cross-platform and internet features
TYPES OF AUTHORING TOOLS
 Card and page based tools:
This tool provides a simple and easily understandable metaphor for organizing
multimedia elements. It contains media objects such as buttons, text files and graphic objects. It
provides facilities for linking objects to pages or cards. The software required is hyper card and
Linked card tool box.
Advantages: 
Easy to understand
Easy to use
Easy to link metaphor1=screen1=card1= page1
It consumes very less time for developing an application.
Disadvantages:
Few applications run only on one platform.
Card and page tools are not powerful as unique stand alone.
 Icon based- event driven tools:
Icons or object based tools are the simplest event driven authoring object.  Its
provision of simple branching has the ability to go to another section of multimedia production.
Multimedia elements and interaction are organized in the flowchart. A flow chart can be built by
dragging appropriate icons from a library and then dropping them in the required field finally adding
multimedia elements to it. The software required is Icon Author and Author ware.
Advantages:
It has a clear structure [appropriately designed flow chart..
Easy to edit and update the elements.
Disadvantages:
Learning process is very difficult.
Very expensive in nature.
 Time based tools:
Time based tools are best suited for a message with a beginning and an end so that a
message can be passed within a stipulated time period. Few time based tools facilitate navigation and
interactive control. It has the branching technique so that different loops can be formed for different
multimedia applications and time period can be set for these individual applications. The software
required is Adobe’s Directors.
Advantages:
These tools are good for creating animation.
Branching, user control interactivity.
Disadvantages:
Steep learning curve for advance features.
Music and sound files embedded in Flash movies increases the file size and increases the download
time.
Very expensive.
Multimedia data base contains still images, sound files, text, shapes, scripts, movies and other
director’s files. Course is the sequence for displaying and animating cast and crew members. Lingo is
the object oriented scripting language that enables interactivity and programmed control.

 Text Editors:
A text editor is a type of program used for editing plain text files.
Text editors are often provided with operating systems or software development packages, and
can be used to change configuration files and programming language source code.
Common features:
 Cut, copy and paste
 Text formatting
 Undo and redo
 Data transformation

Examples: windows notepad or Emacs.

 Image Editor:
A graphics program that provides a variety of special features for editing bitmap images.
Common features:
 Selection
 Layers
 Image size alteration
 Crop
 Enhancing images
 Change color depth
Examples:
 Adobe Photoshop
 GIMP
 Microsoft Office Picture

 Drawing Program:
Drawing program is a computer program that allows user to compose and edit vector
graphics images interactively on computer screen.
Examples:
 Xfig
 Ink scape
 Adobe Illustrator
 CorelDraw

 Computer Animation:
Computer animation can be created with animation software. Some impressive
animation can be achieved even with basic programs however the rendering can take a
lot of time on an ordinary home computer.
Examples:
 Adobe flash
 Adobe image ready
 XARA 3D

 Waveform editor:
Waveform program is a computer application for audio editing. Allow the user to
record audio and store as digital audio, Mix multiple sound sources.
 Example:
 Adobe audition
 Creative wave studio
 Gold wave