AUTHORING TOOLS FOR MULTIMEDIA APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT AND NETWORK DELIVERY

摘要

A method and apparatus for authoring interactive multimedia applications is disclosed in which self-contained interactive program modules (110) can be dragged and dropped onto timelines (140, 141, 150, 151) to allow a post-production user to create complex interactive functionality without the need for skilled programmers in the post-production process. Such an application is represented by an interactive decision list (IDL) (Fig. 7) which expands the functionality of the edit decision list (EDL) (5510) of the prior art. Techniques for executing IDLs or EDLs in a network environment are disclosed (Figs. 8 and 9).