A practical "how to" guide about Multimedia for the PC covering Multimedia PCs and authoring Multimedia applications. The book features extensive and detailed examples of how multimedia applications are authored. This is above all a practical book, not descriptive or theoretical, about Multimedia PCs and applications.

PC Multimedia: An Introduction to Authoring Applications covers all aspects of multimedia in the PC environment, ranging from hardware issues to authoring business presentations and interactive multimedia applications. The basic aim of this book is to show you how to combine stereo sound, video, graphics and text to create high impact multimedia. Coverage is given to the hardware required to play commercial titles as well as to what's needed to author your own multimedia productions. You'll be shown how to select, or develop, a multimedia authoring station that fits your needs. This book also covers such topics as how multimedia can help business users other than to create high impact presentations. For example, you will be shown how to add video clips to your Windows business applications using Object Linking and Embedding (OLE). In addition, coverage is also given to adding voice annotations to your applications, as well as to packages that allow you to operate Windows using voice commands alone. Because multimedia brings video, sound synthesis, audio and computing together, this book also covers multimedia production techniques, and the periphery of audio and video hardware that surrounds them. So, within this book, you'll also learn about camcorders, capturing video, video editing, recording sound files, loudspeakers and much more. Enjoy the world of multimedia with this insightful, helpful, and above all, practical guide.