Authoring: multimedia publishing stages

• Separate processing, especially early on, is required for each media type.
• Multimedia objects must be collected, selected, edited (to produce objects and decision lists), and filed.
• Preparation deals with digitizing, clean up and enhancement, and compression. Typical tools for text and graphics processing will be used for those media.
• Publishing requires ordering and sequencing, organization of the application, layout in time and space, linking, storing in a database or hyperbase, adding scripting and interaction, and correlating multiple representations for a smooth and highly interactive application.
• Use requires packaging for delivery over a network or on optical storage devices.
• In the case of hyperbases, the users may add in links or other enhancements.