Authoring mutlimedia CDs on OSX
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2003-12-16
03:34 PM
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2023-05-11
02:34 PM
by
Noemi Balogh
Im interested in producing CD's (the shiny coasters we put in our PCs, not construction documents, ) which show various House Types with ArchiCAD 3D views, plans, spec and the like. maybe even a QTVR or movie or two
What application would be best to use to "author" these CD's
preferably a cost effective simple application that runs on OSX.
Thanks in advance
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2003-12-16 03:56 PM
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2003-12-16 05:00 PM

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2003-12-16 05:46 PM
Director is that an Adobe or Macromedia product?
I think it might be a bit high end for me, im looking for something simple and low cost.
I believe abvent had an app called Katabounga but I think its now defunct. something like that would be ideal.
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2003-12-16 10:42 PM
people seem to forget the creative power of Adobe Acrobat, which not only produces documents readable on both platforms, but also offers a god array of tools to prepare great presentations.
Cheers
Francois
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2003-12-18 09:02 PM
or anyone else?
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2003-12-26 03:17 PM
http://www.totallyhip.com/
95 percent of what you would use Director for is in Quicktime.. Quicktime is a multi-track movie player. You can have intereactive Flash tracks...etc. Toggle between one english sound track and a spanish one.
Live Stage Studio pro cost much less than Director when you consider you have to spend double for director if you want to create a dual platform interactive CD.
For more money there is iShell from Tribeworks.
http://www.tribeworks.com/products/ishell/index.asp.
I would go with Live Stage Studio pro. If your doing this for a a living where you have to create dyanmmic interactive cd that hook into databases, websites,...etc then Director is the way to go.
Jose
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2003-12-31 08:41 PM
Oh yeah, then when you have it done, just copy it all to your CD. I know there are even ways to get things to autorun when they are inserted, but that is beyond me.
Anyway, just a thought.
Joe
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2004-01-04 10:31 PM
I have kind of been doing this in a very simplified way using the old Adobe Pagemill app in Mac OS9. I think I will pursue the html method. I know most apps now output html apps such as photshop, word etc. I will give these a try , and will also have a look at Dreamweaver.
Thanks for your comment.
Lennox
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2004-01-05 10:38 PM
End users want a brainless install. If quicktime is not installed then the app should auto load hte quicktime installer for them.
Today Macromedia announced Director MX 2004. This is the first version of director where you don't have to own both platforms to author cross platform CD's.
Just my two cents
Jose