AutoPlay Media Studio is the state of the art in CD-autoplay multimedia tools. With its intuitive workflow and drag-and-drop objects, even absolute beginners can quickly achieve impressive results. But despite its world-renown ease of use, AutoPlay Media Studio is a serious development tool. In fact, it's used by thousands of people to create everything from AutoRun/AutoPlay menus and CD business cards, to fully interactive training applications. With AutoPlay, your imagination is your only limit!
Quite simply, AutoPlay Media Studio helps you make professional multimedia software. While the product excels at certain tasks like making front-end browsers for CD-ROMs (i.e. AutoRun/AutoPlay menus), that's just the beginning.
Integrating diverse media types such as images, sounds, videos, text, and flash into a single cohesive presentation is what AutoPlay Media Studio does best. In fact, it has been trusted to deliver rock-solid multimedia experiences to millions of people around the world. Users just like you have chosen AutoPlay Media Studio for:
• Multimedia Authoring & Application Development
• Computer Based Training (CBT) Applications
• CD-ROM AutoPlay/AutoRun Menu Systems
• Interactive Marketing Presentations
• CD Business Cards
• Much more
I n t ui t i ve Dra g a nd Dr op De s ign
AutoPlay Media Studio has always been known for its easy-to-use visual design environment. Simply drop high-level, interactive objects (images, video, text etc.) onto pages to create instant functionality. Move them into position using your mouse or with the aid of an extensive assortment of alignment tools and grids. Once you've got your interface down, it's a snap to attach powerful actions to various events such as mouse clicks and key presses. Whether it's opening a PDF file, playing a video or showing a web site, the Action wizard makes it easy to choose from the over 865 built-in functions.
About This Guide
This user's guide is intended to walk you through building a sample project: a CD business card for a fictional real estate agent named Ted Sellers. You'll learn the ins and outs of the program interface, and how to perform many common tasks.
The guide is organized into 10 lessons:
Lesson 1: Getting Started
Lesson 2: Graphics and Text
Lesson 3: Working with Multiple Objects Lesson 4: Buttons, Actions and Pages Lesson 5: Status Text
Lesson 6: Scrolling Text
Lesson 7: Video
Lesson 8: Audio
Lesson 9: Publishing
Lesson 10: Scripting Basics