Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!apple!rutgers!mcnc!uvaarpa!vger!manes From: manes@vger.nsu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Re:Multimedia == AmigaVision! Message-ID: <48.27144e3c@vger.nsu.edu> Date: 11 Oct 90 14:49:32 GMT References: Distribution: comp.sys.amiga Lines: 77 In article , yamanaka@cv.sony.co.jp (Brian YAMANAKA) writes: > In response to the question "What do you think of AmigaVision," I must > say that it is an good product with a lot of features. BUT after > having just attending the International Multi-Media Show in Tokyo, I > find that the Mac has some truly exciting ideas for multi-media. ^^^^^ Perhaps this is a key word. Ideas does not equate to availability does it? Lots of ideas don't make it into commercial applications. What product are you refering to? > > > First of all I think that it is necessary to represent icons by the > actual data that they represent. Picture icons should be a small > version of the image, sound icons may have an image of the sound wave, > and live images sould also have an icon (perhaps via something like > A-Live!) All of the Mac products I saw provide these features. Secondly, we > need hyper-links! This is something that no multi-media product will > live without (at lest in the presentation market). As far as icons representing the images / sounds etc. goes, though that sounds like a neat display kinda thing it would add to the confusion not to the usefulness of the display. I do think improvement should be made so that the contents of the icons are easier to display in a "big picture" type of format. I agree that hyperlinks need to be added. However it is important to note that using the object editor much of what hyperlinks does for you can be "simulated". However I think it needs to be added in a less subtle way. > > One last point, I've tried to use the dBase feature of AVison and > found it lacking in many commands. Especially in the market of search > criteria. The method of suing icons seems very awkward for this > process. I hope that someone will expand the database features and > incorperate the aforementioned hyper-links. What commands would you like to see that are not there? Searches are done via select icons and seems to be friendly. Perhaps the expression editor could be used to qualify 'data' that comes from the database. Would this suit the purpose ? > > I hope that this will help get some people really thinking at > Commodore at how they will approach the multi-media market. Speaking > for myself they are not doing enough to push it's ability and rallying > the support of software developers in this field. Apple does a gret > job of supporting their developers, and gets the co-operation of other > companies to help them in the design of their products. I think > Commodore should consider or work more hard towards creating > relationships with developers and provide many tools for them. I can't speak for Apple's support for their developers. I suspect that would all depend on which developer you ask. However from the point of view from this developer, I have gotten nothing but great support from Commodore in developing AmigaVision applications. What tools would you like to see that does not exist? > > I've said more than enough so let the discussion begin. > Indeed, let the games begin! > Brian > yamanaka@cv.sony.jp <----I think. I've only been here a week and it's > all Japanese to me. > -- > --------------------------------------------------- > Brian YAMANAKA > Sony Corporation, Consumer Video Group > Email: yamanaka@cv.sony.co.jp -mark= Mr. AmigaVision manes@vger.nsu.edu