Implementing digital video into time line based authoring environments

Abstract

In the paper we discuss and present a multimedia tutorial covering approaches in digital video implementation into an authoring tool based on time line authoring. First a short overview of the authoring approaches is presented in the introduction. Then, briefly some technological aspects of analog and digital video are discussed The main topic is discussed afterwards based on the time line authoring tool Director. We emphasize the benefits of using time line based authoring environments compared to other authoring tools. Also approaches in implementing new video technologies in such a multimedia-authoring environment are briefly presented.