RE: Multimedia authoring There are many books, articles, etc. on the subject of multimedia authoring, and a web search will probably turn up a number of sources. There are as many newsgroups and listservs as there are software applications. I've used a few texts for my multimedia authoring course--and they are more theory than practice: "Labyrinths" by Dominic Stansberry (Thompson) and van Wodtke's "Mind over Media" (McGraw). As to how to's, that depends on the software you use. My own authoring was done in Asymetrix Toolbook, which I also use in my classes. It has the value of being as simple or complex as you need. For publication, my CD-ROM was done by a professional production company in Macromedia Director, the advantage of which is that it can be developed for PC and Mac and is the industry default. It is incredibly difficult and yields no better results than Toolbook. To get an image into your computer, you need a video capture card, fed by either a VCR or (preferably) a laserdisc. It might be a good idea to decide first what kind of project you want to do and then find the software that can best handle it. It might turn out that nothing more than Power Point is needed. ---------------------- Robert Kolker English Department University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 [log in to unmask] http://www.otal.umd.edu/~rkolker 301.405.6250 ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/screensite