The Amiga Multimedia Workbook
by Jay Gross
ISBN> 1-879211-07-6 · 204pp 8.5"x11" · Coil
Bound
· Push Button Publishing, Denver 1992 · Cover Price:
$29.95 with
included floppy disk
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The Amiga Multimedia Workbook by Jay Gross ISBN> 1-879211-07-6 · 204pp 8.5"x11" · Coil
Bound |
| Introduction to the Amigas | xi |
| SECTION I: Instroduction to multimedia |
3 |
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What's a "multi" media? |
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| Benefits |
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| No waiting | |
| Rose-colored window | |
| Future expansion and possibilities | |
| Section II: Getting
acquainted |
7 |
| Racing stripes and POP | |
| An Amiga near you | |
| Kiosks | |
| Interactivity and educational systems | |
| Live presentations | |
| A wall of video | |
| Section III: Doing Multimedia on computers | 11 |
| The whys and the why nots | |
| What computers bring to multimedia | |
| Visualization | |
| Some famous examples | |
| Converting | |
| The king of examples | |
| Changing the colors | |
| Live on stage | |
| 43... 22... 36 | |
| Educational systems and interactive systems | |
| Section IV: Terms and techniques | 19 |
| Speaking the language | |
| The selling presentation | |
| Interactivity and what it means | |
| Teleconferencing |
| Section V: Putting together a
presentation |
23 |
| ‘Planning and preparation...’ | |
| Doing the work | |
| Moving stuff to video | |
| Digitizing vs. scanning | |
| Capturing from live video | |
| Grabbing frames on the fly | |
| Digitizing from flat or 3D objects | 29 |
| Lighting for critical digitizing | |
| How to adjust lighting for digitizing | |
| Flatness | |
| Scanning from flat art | |
| Other digitizing considerations | |
| Digitizing three d’s | |
| Making computer objects from real ones | |
| Video and computer displays together | |
| Computer-controlled VCR’s | |
| Using genlocks for special picture mixing tricks | 37 |
| Adding animation to your presentations | |
| Animation techniques | |
| DeluxePaint IV | |
| Sprite animation | |
| “Morphing” animation | |
| “Multiplane” animation | |
| 3D animation techniques on the Amiga | |
| Object designers | |
| Surface mapping | 44 |
| Bump mapping | |
| Customers for 3D animations | |
| The “cel” in raytracing and rendering | |
| Converting animation from non-Amigas | |
| Creating and editing still pictures | |
| What resolution? | |
| Pretty pictures | 48 |
| It’s not a bird... | |
| Dithering and antialiasing explained | |
| Structured art | 50 |
| Converting pictures from non-Amigas | |
| Getting stuff into Amigas | |
| Dealing with non-Amiga picture formats | 54 |
| MacPaint | |
| Quest for file formats | |
| Caveats | |
| Graphs | |
| Rules of good graph-graphics | 58 |
| Choosing meaningful colors | |
| Titling products | |
| Graphs with structure | 60 |
| Credibility | |
| Combination effects | |
| Charts and Graphs | |
| Mixing in music and sound | |
| Internal sound and how to
get it |
64 |
| Recording sound to videotape | |
| How to digitize sound and
what with |
68 |
| Editing digitized sounds | |
| Making “sampled” instruments | |
| The nomenclature | |
| About Sonix instruments | |
| Tuning sounds |
70 |
| Sound digitizing sources | |
| Making special instrument files | |
| The finished product | |
| Lasers? On the Amiga? | |
| Sound channels? | 74 |
| Another exotic application | |
| Presenter control | |
| Multimedia control in the key of A | 77 |
| Air | |
| Kiosks | |
| Secrets of interactivity | |
| Aiming for audience level | |
| Making it look good | |
| A hypothetical kiosk application | |
| Power | |
| The view port |
81 |
| User input devices | |
| Buttons | |
| Other choices | |
| Software considerations | |
| AmigaVision | |
| CanDo | |
| Foundation | 84 |
| The Director |
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| ShowMaker | |
| Presenting | |
| The PC-VCR | |
| Time for toast | |
| Omissions | |
| Choosing an authoring program | |
| Education applications | 89 |
| Producing materials for CD-Rom machines | |
| Non-Amiga CD-Roms | |
| CDTV discs | |
| What is CDTV? | 92 |
| CDTV applications | |
| The ARexx connection | |
| AmigaDOS commands | |
| The development time snag | 95 |
| Section VI: Summary, looking ahead, etc. | 97 |
| The crystal ball | |
| Multi-image is a sibling of multimedia | |
| Hypermedia is a cousin | |
| The future | |
| PeeCees | |
| Macs | |
| The future of computing | |
| Unix implications | |
| The Apple-IBM threat | |
| The changing Amiga | |
| Bibliography |
103 |
| Books | |
| Magazines | |
| Help tapes | |
| Appendix A: Manufacturers’ addresses | 111 |
| Selected suppliers of hardware, software, and multimedia-related services | |
| Appendix B: Freely
distributable software |
125 |
| Appendix C: Example systems | 129 |
| Suggested hardware, software, etc. | |
| Appendix D: Tips for videowalls | 135 |
| Easy, when you know how | |
| Appendix E: The nitty-gritty | 137 |
| Selected tutorials | |
| How to load a sound or instrument into Amiga programs | |
| AmigaVision | |
| MovieSetter | |
| CanDo | |
| Loading instruments in Deluxe Music Construction Set | |
| Loading instruments in Sonix | |
| Creating a simple slide show in AmigaVision | |
| Appendix F: Chroma keying tips and techniques | 145 |
| What it is? | |
| The magic | |
| What it isn’t | |
| How to get it | |
| Lighting for Chromakey | |
| Appendix G: Jpeg
compression |
151 |
| Data compression | |
| Amigas’ Jpeg | |
| Hardware | |
| Appendix H: Laser lightshow tips | 155 |
| Tips for designing laser lightshows | |
| The laser projectors | |
| The amplifiers | |
| Mirror, mirror | |
| Which Amiga? | |
| The catch | |
| Suppliers’ addresses | |
| Glossary of Terms |
161 |
| Index |
171 |