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Interactive Products produced the multimedia promotional event for graphics system and software vendor SuperMac Technology at the spring 1990 Macworld. The first step was to determine exactly what the client wanted. The second step was to develop a strategy brochure specifying exactly what the show would be and how it would be presented. Interactive Products used HyperCard, a complete multimedia prototyping tool, says company president and co-founder Rob Fulop. The company avoided the pitfall of a blank screen by playing music and voice-overs while a still frame was on the screen while the next animation was loading. Interactive staff say it is best to develop a multimedia show on the same computer system it will be presented on.
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A good presentation will often have three elements: a speech, audience handouts and slides or overhead transparencies. Symantec's More II for the Macintosh is a good way to provide all of these elements for text-intensive applications. More II is an outliner, but it also has a variety of tools for easily turning text outlines into slick visual presentations. Tree charts and bullet charts are painlessly made from a More II outline. The bullet chart tool palette allows the user to change the shape, background color, and even the drop shadow behind each box in a bullet chart.
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Attendees, speakers, and vendors at Seybold Seminars' Digital World conference, June 26-28, 1990, indicate that the lack of standards is holding back inexpensive desktop multimedia products. The computer and consumer electronics industries do not appear to be ready to work together to develop standards and a change in this attitude does not appear likely in the near future. Manufacturers want to their multimedia formats accepted as the industry standard, but since this is not happening, the market is fragmented.
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