Autoplay Media Studio Product Overview:
AutoPlay Media Studio 6.0 is a rapid application development platform with unparalleled multimedia capabilities. It specializes in combining content such as images, music, video, Flash and HTML into a fully customized multimedia application.
Designed to empower software developers and non-developers alike, AutoPlay Media Studio brings advanced multimedia development abilities to business users, video producers, educators, content distributors, and anyone with an intermediate level of computer knowledge. It not only makes it easy to combine mixed media within a single application, but allows you to make that media interactive in any way you want using the powerful built-in scripting engine. For example, you could use an embedded Flash interface to control a web page on autoplay media studio, or create database-enabled multimedia training systems and video browsers.
AutoPlay Media Studio's object-oriented, drag-and-drop approach to design makes it easy for anyone to create their own applications, even if they have absolutely no programming experience. This allows users to rapidly create autorun menus, interactive presentations, training applications, network tools and other custom software.
Features
Rapid Software Development - Simply drag and drop your multimedia files right onto the page, and double-click to edit their properties.
Easy to Learn - Designed to make developing multimedia applications as easy as possible, even with no previous programming experience. Drag-and-drop
Interface Design - Create a custom application by adding objects and arranging them, all with a few clicks of the mouse.
Add Interactivity - Adding interactivity is a snap. With a few mouse clicks you can add buttons to navigate between pages, start and stop videos, run programs, open external documents, and more.
Powerful Enough For Any Task - The built in scripting engine is packed with hundreds of functions to handle everything from registry editing to XML parsing and web downloads. And thanks to the fill-inthe- blanks style Action Wizard, it's easy enough for anyone to use.
Interactive Objects - Over a dozen interactive object types to choose from, from buttons, videos, and flash movies, to edit fields, progress bars, drop-down lists and tree controls.
Event Driven - Each object includes a variety of events and is fully customizable. Events include things like clicking on an object or moving the mouse across a page. Simply add actions to the appropriate object's event handler and they'll be performed automatically.
Full Scripting Engine - A powerful scripting engine with more than 500 highlevel actions features everything from registry editing and file copying to web file downloads and much more.
Professional Script Editor - The fully integrated script editor features color syntax highlighting, code completion, function highlighting, as-you-type action prototypes, Ctrl+Space function listings and even context-sensitive help.
Easy Publishing - Use the publishing wizard to create a single-file executable, burn a CD/DVD data disc, generate an ISO image or output directly to a hard drive folder.
Multi-Channel Audio - Play up to 8 channels of audio simultaneously with automatic selection of hardware or software mixing. Professional Templates - Choose from a variety of ready-to-use projects and then modify them to fit your needs.
Content Gallery - Ships with professional content including background images, photos, abstracts, panels, bars, bullets, buttons, sound effects and music files.
Alignment Tools - A full range of alignment tools includes guidelines and adjustable snap-to grids, making it easy to line things up across multiple pages.
Royalty Free - AutoPlay Media Studio's license agreement lets you distribute published applications on a royalty-free basis. There are no additional costs to distribute your applications.
Competitive Position
AutoPlay Media Studio excels at making multimedia applications-bringing together different types of media and presenting them in an attractive, customized way that is fully interactive. All of the complicated technological hurdles are handled automatically, freeing the developer to focus on the creative aspects of the application instead of having to solve all the mysteries of multimedia development.
While traditional development tools allow limited multimedia creation, there's a huge learning curve associated with them. AutoPlay Media Studio enables anyone to achieve professional results, with no prior knowledge of programming required. Impressive multimedia projects can be created faster and easier with AutoPlay Media Studio than with any traditional software development tool such as Visual C++, Delphi, or Visual Basic. In fact, fully functional applications can be created in a matter of minutes. The applications do not require any external runtime libraries or files to be installed on the user's system.
AutoPlay Media Studio's object-oriented, event-driven model is more appropriate for multimedia application development than tools like Macromedia Flash that are built upon the concept of a timeline. For example, to add interactivity you simply add an object, and then customize the object's responses to various events like being clicked, or double-clicked, or having the mouse move over top. This simplifies the construction of interactive multimedia projects and allows developers to approach tasks in a straightforward fashion.
AutoPlay Media Studio was the pioneer in multimedia autorun CD menu tools, and after many years and many popular versions, it has evolved into a sophisticated multimedia platform that empowers software developers and non-developers alike, allowing multimedia producers to accomplish what they want to do.
