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MultiMedia Engine Presentation Management System
Total Presentation Control
Photos
Videos
Panos
Audio
The CampusTours MultiMedia Engine allows your organization to maintain and update complex Macromedia Flash™ presentations comprised of photos, animated slideshows, narration, music, videos, panoramic images, interactive campus and community maps, text and links—all without any programming!
Flash presentations free your visitors from having to download and install a myriad of plug-ins for different media items.
The CampusTours MultiMedia Engine can publish presentations to your Web site or to CD-ROM providing additional distribution and reuse opportunities.
“The CampusTours MultiMedia Engine has allowed Juilliard to maintain complex multimedia content on our site without having to know complex code that drives rich media presentations. The system enables us to quickly and easily update our Virtual Tour and have the changes live on the Web in just a matter of minutes." •
Ira Rosenblum, Director of Publications The Juilliard School
THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL
Today your Web site is your most important communications asset. Visitors to your site are expecting a comprehensive and professional presentation that details and differentiates your organization. You currently tell your story through HTML pages with text and photos, and an occasional video. Now imagine that your visitors, once they reach your HTML site, are presented with an option for a narrated multimedia presentation, featuring animated photographic slide shows with transition effects tied to precise points in the narration and/or background music. Imagine videos, panoramic images, photos, interactive maps, testimonials and performances, all integrated to provide the most comprehensive and compelling treatment of your organization.
COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO
Now stop imagining… NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL
CAMPUSTOURS INC 110 Jacques Road Auburn, ME 04210 TEL: (207) 753-0136 FAX: (207) 753-0137 WEB: www.CampusTours.com
Interactive Solutions for Higher Education
CampusTours MultiMedia Engine CampusTours works with each client to craft presentations and rich media applications that meet the diverse requirements of academic institutions. Once the presentation style, interface and information architecture have In addition to multibeen determined, unique media production, templates are created that CampusTours helps drive students, parents allow organizations to and alumni to our academic clients’ sites update any aspect of the application through the from CampusTours. CampusTours MultiMedia Engine presentation management system. CampusTours completes the entire initial presentation and then provides the institution with the MultiMedia Engine to update any aspect of the presentation in the future.
The MultiMedia Engine Interactive Map Module allows organizations to publish and update interactive maps, dynamically creating hotspots, map indicators, panoramic viewing angles, and even customized map layers to indicate parking or emergency call boxes.
MultiMedia Engine Features •
Dynamic publishing of Macromedia Flash™ allows organizations to add to their presentations anytime they take new photos or record video or audio of campus performances and events.
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Full content management capability includes addition of entire presentation sections, subsections, pages, key elements, and all content including video, narration, music, effects, interactive maps, photos, panoramic images, text, links, etc.
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Export to CD-ROM capability allows for continual updates to CD-ROMs and smaller CD run sizes.
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Interactive Map Module provides complete campus and community map solutions. Dynamically create map hotspots, locations, import icons, and even define the viewing angle (perspective) of panoramic images.
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LinearTour Module creates customized Flash slideshows, permitting precise transitions and transition effects keyed to points in the background narration or music. Animate photos, slide in titles, all without any programming.
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The MultiMedia Engine supports Section 508 compliance.
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Facilitates distributed publishing by individual departments, allowing for polished presentations at every stage of the university Web site.
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No additional load on university server; MultiMedia Engine runs on any networked Windows client.
How Does It Work? The CampusTours MultiMedia Engine generates presentations entirely in Macromedia Flash™. Presentation data is stored in XML files in a relational database-like structure, providing the advantages of relational access to data without the overhead of the database application. The MultiMedia Engine runs not on the organization’s server(s) but on a client workstation, and publishes a full version of the presentation to a test directory, allowing for staging prior to posting to production. Once satisfied that the new presentation is complete and correct, departments simply notify the Webmaster that a new version of the presentation directory structure is available, and it is copied onto the production server(s). No additional scripts or processes are required on the server. MultiMedia Engine presentations are constructed dynamically at runtime, ensuring that only the necessary files are delivered to the visitor, and allowing for integration with real time organizational data feeds. The MultiMedia Engine gives organizations the flexibility to incorporate any type of multimedia into a comprehensive presentation easily, without having to rely on programmers each time a change is required.
CAMPUSTOURS INC 110 Jacques Road Auburn, ME 04210 TEL: (207) 753-0136 FAX: (207) 753-0137 WEB: www.CampusTours.com
