"Here is your chance to learn powerful new methods for integrating text, imagery, animation, sound, and video to convey information. This definitive handbook features contributions on the newest multimedia innovations from experts at IBM, Apple, Kodak, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, DEC, and other leading corporations." "You'll find up-to-the-minute discussions of multimedia specifications ... writable CDs ... virtual reality ... authoring multimedia ... and producing multimedia videos." "The McGraw-Hill Multimedia Handbook also covers the following: networking multimedia applications; designing a multimedia system; multimedia standards; managing multimedia information; multimedia on cable; the virtual classroom; legal issues in multimedia; how to produce your own CD-ROM; CD-I developers' source guide; animation, video, and sound; and much more." "In addition, this handbook includes an extensive Annotated Resource Guide." "Whether you're a multimedia user or a newcomer to the field, this essential reference tool will guide you step by step through all areas of the burgeoning multimedia industry, providing state-of-the-art information on the latest breakthroughs!"--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Learn powerful methods for integrating text, imagery, animation, sound, and video to convey information. This definitive handbook features contributions on multimedia from experts at IBM, Apple, Kodak, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, DEC, and other leading corp. You'll find discussions of multimedia specifications . . . writable CDs . . . virtual reality . . . authoring multimedia . . . and producing multimedia videos. Also covers networking multimedia applications, designing a multimedia system, multimedia standards, managing multimedia info, multimedia on cable, the virtual classroom, legal issues in multimedia, how to produce your own CD-ROM, and much more!

Extensively updated and expanded to reach a wide audience hungry for information in the far-reaching field of multimedia, this new edition includes more than 20 chapters on Netscape Communications, multimedia on the Internet, the WWW, HTML and Java.

Here is the authoritative handbook on multimedia metadata and data management. In one volume, it gathers a wealth of information from the field's leading international experts in this emerging specialty. Multimedia data -- text, image, voice, and video -- poses unique challenges to product developers and database professionals in midsized to giant organizations. They need to know how multimedia can be effectively stored, accessed, and integrated into applications. The key is "metadata", which acts as an umbrella for multimedia data and allows it to be modeled and managed. In this invaluable guide, well-known contributors from the U.S., Japan, and Europe examine the metadata concept, present relevant standards, and discuss its global use in video databases, speech documents, satellite and medical imaging, and other applications.

The updated second edition of the only handbook to offer a comprehensive analysis of research and theory in the field of multimedia learning, or learning from words and images. It examines research-based principles to determine the most effective methods of multimedia instruction and uses cognitive theory to explain how these methods work.

Thoroughly updated for newnbsp;breakthroughs in multimedia nbsp; The internationally bestselling Multimedia: Making it Work has been fully revised and expanded to cover the latest technological advances in multimedia. You will learn to plan and manage multimedia projects, from dynamic CD-ROMs and DVDs to professional websites. Each chapter includes step-by-step instructions, full-color illustrations and screenshots, self-quizzes, and hands-on projects. nbsp;

The Multimedia Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the wide range of uses of multimedia. The first part of the book introduces the technology for the non-specialist. Part Two covers multimedia applications and markets. Tony Cawkell details the huge array of authoring software which is now available, as well as the distribution of multimedia data by telephone, cable, satellite or radio communications. There is an extensive bibliography, a glossary of technical terms and acronyms and a full index.