A Multimedia System for Authoring Motion Pictures

Ronald Baecker, Alan J Rosenthal, Naomi Friedlander, Eric Smith and Andrew Cohen,     Dynamic Graphics Project, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Toronto, 10 King’s College Road, Toronto ON Canada M5S 1A4, (416)978-6983, E-mail: rmb@dgp.toronto.edu

ABSTRACT

MAD (Movie Authoring and Design) is a novel design and authoring system that facilitates the process of creating dynamic visual presentations such as motion pictures and lecture-demonstrations. MAD supports the process by enhancing the author’s ability to structure and modify a presentation and to visualize the ultimate result. It does this by allowing both top-down design and bottom-up creation with a hierarchical multimedia document ...

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