Multimedia Editor

With affordable digital cameras and video cameras, and increasingly large hard drives, multimedia information is now a viable information source. However, while multimedia information storage is becoming easier, it is still difficult to make multimedia information accessible: it is not economic to wade through a two-hour video presentation in order to find a particular quotation.

The image editor and the audio/video editor are designed to make multimedia information accessible and useable. These multimedia editors offer two strategies:

These two strategies can be applied to images, audio and video information.

A multimedia subdocument is a single audio or video clip (a sound bite or video bite ), or a detail from an image. Multimedia subdocuments created with the audio/video editor or image editor are saved as independent tiles that are managed entirely independently from their source tiles. You can attach a subdocument to any NE, without regard to which NE the source tile is attached. Although managed independently, subdocuments always track their source tile, ensuring that context is never lost. The DNE's automatic parent-child tracking guarantees that the full context for any multimedia subdocument is only a mouseclick away.

The same machine that is used to create audio and video subdocuments is also used to index multimedia tiles. The audio/video editor has ten editing lines that can be used to create up to ten different sets of clips at the same time. These can be used, for instance, to create and organize clips from each of ten participants at a meeting. If you create a new clip for every topic, or for each participant's contribution on a topic, you can make the meeting recording navigable. The DNE automatically creates a table of contents that allows you to find any clip quickly and easily.

The image editor does the same thing with image tiles, allowing you to take details from larger images or to annotate your images.