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Multimedia: Making it Work-Osborne/McGraw-Hill 1st Edition (1993)
Multimedia: Making it Work-Osborne/McGraw-Hill 2nd Edition (1994)
Multimedia: Making it Work-Osborne/McGraw-Hill 3rd Edition (1996)
Multimedia: Making it Work-Osborne/McGraw-Hill 4th Edition (1998)
Multimedia: Making it Work-Osborne/McGraw-Hill 5th Edition (2001)
Multimedia: Making it Work-McGraw-Hill Professional 6th Edition (2003)
Multimedia: Making it Work-McGraw-Hill Professional 7th Edition (2007)
Multimedia: Making it Work-McGraw-Hill Professional 8th Edition (2010)
Multimedia: Making it Work-McGraw-Hill Professional 9th Edition (2014)

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Learn the fundamental concepts and essential skills required for a successful career in multimedia from this bestselling guide. Multimedia: Making It Work, Seventh Edition shows you how to use text, images, sound, and video to deliver compelling messages and content in meaningful ways. You will learn to design, organize, and produce multimedia projects such as CD-ROMs, DVDs, and professional web sites. Each chapter includes step-by-step instructions, full-color illustrations and screenshots, self-quizzes, and hands-on projects.

Inside this book, you will learn how to:

Master the building blocks of multimedia, including text, images, audio, video, and animation
Record, process, and edit digital audio
Work with bitmap, vector, and 3-D images
Create vivid computer animations
Shoot and edit digital video
Select the best hardware, software, and authoring tools for your needs
Design dynamic Web content
Determine the scope and cost of a multimedia project
Acquire the appropriate content and best talent
Prepare and deliver a professional multimedia project

Each chapter includes:

Learning objectives
Full-color illustrations
Helpful notes, tips, and warnings
Chapter summaries and key term lists
End-of-chapter quizzes and lab projects

Table of contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
1 What is Multimedia?
2 Introduction to Making Multimedia
3 Multimedia Skills
4 Text
5 Sound 96
6 Images
7 Animation
8 Video
9 Hardware
10 Basic Software Tools
11 Multimedia Authoring Tools
12 The Internet and How It Works
13 Tools for the World Wide Web
14 Designing for the World Wide Web
15 Planning and Costing
16 Designing and Producing
17 Content and Talent
18 Delivering
GLOSSARY
INDEX

Biographical note

Tay Vaughan has developed and produced award-winning projects for clients such as Apple, Microsoft, Lotus, Novell, and Sun. He is president of Timestream, a multiformat CD-ROM and Internet design and publishing company.

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Thoroughly Updated for the Latest Advances in Multimedia Learn the fundamental concepts and essential skills required for a successful career in multimedia from this bestselling guide. Multimedia: Making It Work, Seventh Edition shows you how to use text, images, sound, and video to deliver compelling messages and content in meaningful ways. You will learn to design, organize, and produce multimedia projects such as CD-ROMs, DVDs, and professional web sites. Each chapter includes step-by-step instructions, full-color illustrations and screenshots, self-quizzes, and hands-on projects.Inside this book, you will learn how to:Master the building blocks of multimedia, including text, images, audio, video, and animationRecord, process, and edit digital audioWork with bitmap, vector, and 3-D imagesCreate vivid computer animations Shoot and edit digital videoSelect the best hardware, software, and authoring tools for your needsDesign dynamic Web contentDetermine the scope and cost of a multimedia projectAcquire the appropriate content and best talentPrepare and deliver a professional multimedia projectEach chapter includes:Learning objectives Full-color illustrations Helpful notes, tips, and warnings Chapter summaries and key term lists End-of-chapter quizzes and lab projects

Multimedia
About the Book
First Persons
Helsinki 1996-1997
Rockport Workshops 1999
Porcupine, Inc.
Patent Application
Expert Witness: Multimedia
A Few Quotes
Interesting Stuff

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Subject: Re: Tay's Great Book
Date: October 15, 1994 at 11:40:25 AM EDT

Hi Tay,

I have always wanted to write you a note of appreciation for the insights that you provided to me in your book "Making it Work" 2nd edition. I picked up your book at a time when I was wondering what I should do after graduating from college with a business degree. I always wanted a career in which what I do enables me to merge technology and business. Multimedia production was definitely a right mix.

This past August, I started a multimedia production company here in Boston. My business partners include a business professor (business manager), the director of multimedia production at Northeastern University, and myself. We are developing a content for a game title at this moment. We hope to have a demo to take to venture ppl sometime in March.

Thanks for your advise. Will keep you inform on our progress. BTW, what are you working on these days?

Cheers to the Tay School of Thought on Multimedia!

David Yip

Subject: Thanks for the posting
Date: October 14, 1994 at 10:18:23 AM EDT

Dear Tay,

I made my way over to your Web site yesterday, and I just wanted to let you know I appreciated the posting of your talk at the MM Conference last month. I couldn't make it (furiously writing a Director book), but you summed up essentially the information I would have been seeking had I been there. Your open, positive advice to other multimediasts was refreshing.

BTW, I was a contributor to the "BusinessWeek Guide to Business Multimedia," and I enjoyed the job Timestream did on the companion CD-ROM.

Keep up the good work!

Take care,

Jason Roberts
Panmedia, New York City

Subject: Multimedia at Harvard
Date: January 19, 1995 at 4:01:41 PM EST

Hello Tay,

My name is Roz Hoffman. I'm a technical writer/manager in a multimedia R&D lab at Hewlett Packard in Massachusetts... I teach a multimedia course for writers and others in Harvard's Continuing Ed program, and I'm also working with a neurologist at Harvard Medical School to develop multimedia training modules for his students... your book is excellent, and I'm using it as one of the textbooks in my course this year. I particularly like the way you present parallel information for users of PCs and Macs. Although the multimedia equipment at Harvard is mostly Macintosh, many of my students have PCs and will find the information in your book very valuable (as will the Mac users).

Sincerely,
Roz Hoffman