Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

11-3-1994

Publication Title

Proceedings of SPIE

Department

Department of Computer Science

Abstract

Multimedia systems integrate text, audio, video, graphics, and other media and allow them to be utilized in a combined and interactive manner. Using this exciting and rapidly developing technology, multimedia applications can provide extensive benefits in a variety of arenas, including research, education, medicine, and commerce. While there are many commercial multimedia development packages, the easy and fast creation of a useful, full-featured multimedia document is not yet a straightforward task.

This paper addresses issues in the development of multimedia documents, ranging from user-interface tools that manipulate multimedia documents to multimedia communication technologies such as compression, digital video editing and information retrieval. It outlines the basic steps in the multimedia authoring process and some of the requirements that need to be met by multimedia development environments. It also presents the role of video, an essential component of multimedia systems and the role of programming in digital video editing. A model is described for remote access of distributed video. The paper concludes with a discussion of future research directions and new uses of multimedia documents.

DOI

10.1117/12.192187

Comments

Listed in the Dartmouth College Computer Science Technical Report Series as PCS-TR94-231.

Original Citation

Fillia Makedon, James W. Matthews, Charles B. Owen, and Samuel A. Rebelsky "Multimedia authoring, development environments, and digital video editing", Proc. SPIE 10278, Defining the Global Information Infrastructure: Infrastructure, Systems, and Services: A Critical Review, 102780H (3 November 1994); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.192187

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