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SMIL Tips and Tricks
In an earlier article, Streaming Media World featured an article about Confluent Technologies, a Canadian company that offers a SMIL authoring tool known as Fluition. This article features some explanations of how the Fluition software functions, including screenshots. There is also a Tips and Tricks section on SMIL authoring, provided by the team at Confluent Technologies [February 21, 2002]
HTML+TIME Transitions in Internet Explorer 6Transitions in IE 6
The inline transitions that Internet Explorer 6 supports are based on the latest SMIL 2.0 specification. In the HTML+TIME world, they are implemented with the use of a t:transitionfilter element. The implementation is a bit early and the browser is in beta so things can always change. But this introductory set of transitions will add a bit more punch to the HTML+TIME framework. [April 19, 2001]
An Interactive Gallery in HTML+TIMEIn my last article on SMIL in Internet Explorer using HTML+TIME, I introduced some basic markup used to create a simple slideshow presentation. In this article, I am going to build upon that markup to make my slideshow into an interactive gallery. One of the big selling points behind HTML+TIME is that it offers scripting-like interactivity without having to use scripting. With a few additions to our existing HTML markup, our presentation is ready for user interaction. [April 10, 2001]
A Slideshow in HTML+TIMEWhat if you wanted your Web page to give a visual presentation of rotating graphics and text? You could create a massive animated GIF and let it do its work. Or you could create a RealPix and RealText presentation using RealPlayer. Or, with the SMIL power of HTML+TIME, you could do the same in Microsoft Internet Explorer. [April 5, 2001]
Internet Explorer SMILes
Some day, Internet historians will ponder the developments of the year 2000. They will look back and argue who won and who lost the battles of the multimedia browser war. [March 29, 2001]
Flash Plus Audio Part 3: Serving Up SMILs
Having finished your synchronized Flash/RealAudio creation, we know you're itching to put it up
on your Web site for friends, colleagues, and proud parents to see. Tim Kennedy continues this series
by talking you through the process of posting your presentation to a Web server - whether it be
a traditional standard Web server, or RealNetworks' RealServer. [December 26, 2000]
Flash Plus Audio Part 2: Knowing SMIL
Now that you've learned how to get Flash to sync long audio files with your animations, it's time to discover more about the glue that holds it all together: SMIL. By Tim Kennedy. [December 7, 2000]
Flash Plus Audio: Sync And Swim
Flash 5's SMIL output for RealPlayer lets you sync long audio files with your animations. Shorten your learning curve and learn how to get great results with this Tim Kennedy tutorial. [November 27, 2000]
RealPix Trix 6: Variable Bitrates
SMIL expert Tim Kennedy shows you how to SWITCH bitrates for a better user experience of your streaming presentations whether you have RealServer or not. Get better bitrates and SMIL. [August 31, 2000]
RealPix Trix 5: Animated Interactivity
Tim Kennedy continues his great RealPix series with a lesson on combining animation, transparency and interactivity to create compelling streaming presentations for RealPlayer. If you want slick, sticky site sizzle this session is sure to satisfy! [August 28, 2000]
RealPix Trix 4: Moving Transparency
No longer content with producing Earth-based tutorials, Tim Kennedy defies
gravity itself with this latest in his series of RealPix illuminations. Strap on
your transparent PNG graphics and join us in a SMIL-based spacewalk.
[August 21, 2000]
Flash Your Real SMIL
Perhaps as a kid he liked those universal glues that claimed to bond anything to
anything (we'll have to ask his Mom), or maybe he's just an unrepentant problem
solver. Either way we win again as Tim Kennedy shows us how to combine Flash
and RealG2 with his universal streaming media cement: SMIL. [July 24, 2000].
QuickTime 4 Begins To SMIL
Now RealPlayer isn't the only kid on the block that can display SMIL based presentations.
Tim Kennedy introduces you to the basic SMIL support offered with Apple's latest release
of the QuickTime viewer. [March 14, 2000]
RealPix Trix #3: It's Button Time
In the latest RealPix tutorial, Tim adds interactive buttons to your RealPix. He also
shows you how SMIL image mapping can be time sensitive.
RealPix Trix #2: Rattle the Windows
In the second RealPix Trix installment, we couple a push wipe and a viewchange
to create two independent motions as our formation of planes flies behind a building.
RealPix Trix #1: The Flyby
Tim reaches into his bag of tricks and gives us some pointers on using the
RealNetworks streaming pictures format, RealPix. The first in a series of
RealPix articles, we'll be using a push wipe to simulate motion with a still image.
Putting RealAudio into SMIL
This is a two part article, the first part deals with encoding sound in RealAudio, and
the second part tells how to incorporate the encoded file into a SMIL File. By Jeff Rule.
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