9:00 a.m. — 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 23, 1999

Streaming Media & Synchronized Multimedia for the WWW.

Room 200 B, Scott Memorial Library, 1020 Walnut Street. Registrants $150; non-registrants $200. Lunch included. Pre-registration Required.

Instructors: Valeri Craigle and Susan Roberts, Knowledge Weavers, Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah, Richard Rathe, MD, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, Paul Burrows, KUED Media Solutions, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT and others in the field.

Lecture/Demonstration Limited to 20.

Who Should Attend: It will help if you are familiar with terms relating to HTML, video and audio manipulation and compression. There will be technical banter among the demonstrators and participants. This is not a workshop for novices but all are welcome. The principal focus will be on preparation for the Web (as well as CD-ROM).

Synopsis: The session will include the difference between "progressive download" and "streaming media" on the Web. A review of the fundamentals of preparing the media. Streaming media tools, including RealVideo, RealAudio, RealText and RealPix. Real Networks new RealSystemG2, a package of streaming media production tools for higher quality and increased flexibility, will also be included. An introduction to SMIL to deliver/create timed and synchronized streaming multimedia presentations for the Web is also featured. Practical issues related to streaming both media and HTML images over the web at 28.8kbs and their necessary resolution in order to have user acceptance will be stressed. The PresenterPro plug-in for PowerPoint is an easy, time-efficient way to create online presentations of narrated PowerPoint slides into a self-contained RealMedia presentation. We conclude with a look at a new authoring tool, Electrifier Pro, to drag and drop video, audio, vector-based graphics, pixel-based graphics and other media into a single QuickTime movie with a suite of effects and hypermedia links, all for Web deployment.