MediaMixer : the interactive cd-rom for everyone. To simply create interactive multimedia applications with photos, videos, sounds, texts, animations, characters, panoramas, html pages...
Distribution : cd-rom, email.
New : variables, games, new effects and filter, simultaneous videos & sounds...
All your medias are automatically gathered in a single executable fashion, autonomous, not necessitating prior installation.
Internet Explorer 5.5 or sup is simply required for perfect playing.
Pages are also readable with IE 5, Firefox 1.0, Netscape 7 or sup (no effects...).
Individual or business, quickly realize with MediaMixer your multimedia presentations :
- ecard, ebook, ecatalogue, ejournal, einformation
- slide show, multimedia album
- promotional cd-rom
- photo book
- projections
- virtual visits
- product catalogue or presentation
- technical tutorial
- ...
A- If you select the file MediaMixer: InstMMXUS.exe.
Simply start the program and follow the instructions (Assistant Installshield).
B- If you select the file MediaMixer: mmxus200.zip :
1. Create a temporary directory for the installation (ex: c:\temp).
2. Unzip the contents of the zip in the temporary directory which you have created.
3. Start setup.exe and follow the instructions displayed on the screen.
4. Delete the temporary directory and its contents as well as mmxus200.zip
Some examples are provided with the software in the directory examples.
The installation directory by default is: C:\Program Files\Mediamixer4.
The program group by default is: MediaMixer4
Various shortcuts are created on the desktop for easy loading.
TO UNINSTALL:
On the desktop, double-click on the icon allowing software uninstallation.
OR
Follow the steps:
1- Close all the programs
2- On the configuration panel, select "Add/delete programs"
3- Select MediaMixer 4 in the list of programs
4- Then click on "Add/delete".
The program and all its components will be destroyed.
What is new in version 4.06 (December 2005) ?
4.06 : december 2005
* bug corrections when positioning
* bugs corrections when exporting with videos or html pages
4.04 : october 2005
* First english version
4.00 : july 2005
* Player entirely rewritten (html, javascript, dhtml, xml...)
* Only needs Internet Explorer 5.5 or sup, Firefox or Netscape 7 or sup
* Cd-rom : still no installation required
* Variables - pro version : New line: Interact with your users !
* Variables - pro version : create form, questions with final evaluation, calculate with users infos, ask then display user first name...
* Effects : entirely changed - Using DirectX effects included in Internet Explorer 5.5 or later
* Effect "broken line" : move image, text, video as you want on the screen
* Video : can appear with effects
* Video : new management, rely on your web parameters
* Video : You can add text or image on a video
* Video : You can play various videos simultaneously
* Video : You can insert Flash animation on the video line.
* Video : Action when clicking on video.
* Sound : can play simultaneously various sounds
* Sound : better management (rely on your web parameters)
* Sound : can not be played from one page to another
* Medias loading : entirely changed, done by your web navigator, faster
* Appearance modes : Entirely changed - some new modes availables (mirror, x ray, red frame...), some disappear. Faster.
* Effects : various new effects (fade, circles...), some disappear. Faster
* Effetcs : manage precisely your effects durations (1/100 second)
* Animations : can cross animations now
* Animations : new animations modes (rebound, broken line...)
* Animations : "acceleration", "deceleration" modes.
* Animations : manage precisely your animation durations
* Animations : create little game : "catch character" mode
* Character : line entirely changed
* Character : Move your image "character" : drag and drop or with the keyboard arrows
* Character : create little games : Move your character to an arrival point
* Panorama : change : act like a marquee, various options availables.
* Actions : new actions (send email, previous page, next page...). Some actions disappear.
* Gifs preview when choosing an image
* Corrected bug : save your colors
* cd-rom : exe are smaller.
* cd-rom : external files managament improved
* Text : "underlined" text are possibles
* Text : fonts managment improved
* Motor : Preview effects with the positionning mode : no more possible
* Motor : Preview modes with the positionning mode : no more possible
* Grid : manage precisely (1/100ème second) your appearances and disappearances
* Grid : No more needs to repeat cells with actions when changing column.
* Grid : No more needs to insert empty column for giving rythm to the presentation
* Grid : 50 columns (before 20)
* cd-rom : can create presentations in 1024 by 768 or sup
* Grid : no more limitations with images or texts with actions
* Page : insert description, keywords, copyright, email on every page
* Background : some changes : only colors or patterns are kept from one page to another.
* Long text : insert external html code to personnalize even more your presentation
* Long text : integrated in your presentation design, arrows to read all the text
* Mmx files format changed
* Player : right clic : can replay, go to the first page, go to the previous page, zoom in, zoom out...)
* Web : "protect" your images with Internet Explorer (right click redirected, save bar hidden).
* Netscape 7 and Firefox compatible : Media appear at the right position, effects, appearance modes, animations are non visibles.
* cd-rom : automatically change your application name for autorun function works.
* ...
To see a complete list of the changes since the start, consult the file history.txt.
Shareware portals
5 stars Zdnet :
Compared to the leading software of multimedia creation, MediaMixer distinguishes itself by its simplicity of use and its price ! Thanks to this tool, you can realize many products such as multimedia albums, projections, electronic cards, virtual visits, tutorials, product catalogues, etc...
5 cows Tucows :
You don't need the skills of a programmer to create an interactive presentation with this tool...
If you're lost, this will walk you through the process.
5 stars Yippee :
I've seen a few shareware 'multi-media studios' in my time but very few have been as comprehensive and as fun as MediaMixer... Surprisingly simple to use, I managed to create and compile a simple multi-page page presentation filled with sounds and images in a matter of minutes.... With more time and a little more practice (the context-specific help is superb!) MediaMixer, with all it's animated transitions and hot-zones, is capable of producing some very professional projects indeed. So if you are itching for something a little more advanced than your standard slide-show software, or want something a little more interactive than Powerpoint then Media Mixer is for you. Highly Recommended.
5 stars JDnet :
Simple to use, MediaMixer uses the principle of a grid which requires completion...an excellent method of starting in multimedia production, for example to distribute a book, a digital CV or a product presentation.
"Coup de coeur LogiNews" :
Juggle with multimedia to better communicate ! MediaMixer applies as much to individuals as to businesses... Easy and useful computer-assisted presentation software to create interactive terminals, marketing aids and other demonstrations.
MediaMixer has been selected by more than 200 shareware portals in the world.
The written press
SVM : The maker of cocktails 4 stars
A tool for multimedia creation which offers good possibilities while remaining very simple to use. This multimedia presentation software is aimed at the general public, giving them the means to realise in no time at all, slide shows and other multimedia interactive presentations. MediaMixer is presented as a sequence of “pages”, in fact a set of sequences (sounds and animations) taking place in the same décor. Each page is structured according to a chart of 20 columns and 61 lines. Each line is dedicated to a particular multimedia event (sounds, pictures, videos, characters, etc…). The implementation is simple. After having specified the size of the presentation, one fills the slots with personal elements. Each element benefits from specific parameterizations to its nature, which enrich the presentation. In spite of this relative simplicity the result is flattering and well adapted to multimedia presentations.
PC Direct : « Simplicity and a low price »
"Multimedia creation programs are often out of the neophyte’s range, due to their price (Macromedia Director 7, the bench mark, is worth 9900 F !) and due to the technical level required. It is therefore with interest that one discovers software such as MediaMixer…Very simple to use, MediaMixer permits the rapid creation of educational software for children or an interactive slide show..."
Vente numérique et Multimédia
Here is MediaMixer which, itself, truly deserves a forward position, because it introduces – finally – a multimedia creation tool, truly accessible to everyone. At 490F, you can entrust it to uninitiated persons, who will not come back to your shop explaining that they don’t understand anything about it. That is not to say that the most competent cannot make something of this software : simplicity was never a defect for anyone.
Inform'optique
« Multimedia creation tools are not lacking, but software for professional use is complex to use and of a cost dissuasive for occasional or family use. It is what generates interest in the affordable MediaMixer, a simple to use multimedia creation tool. You will be able to create, without difficulty, documents mingling text, pictures and sound, to enliven a work meeting, present your work in 3D... A beautiful tool at an affordable price."
Home PC
« MediaMixer is a tool to realize your various multimedia projects, from the photo album with sound illustration to the digital CV. No need to understand programming to insert the elements of your choice – music, sounds, videos, animations... it is sufficient to place them on a grid resembling the page of a spreadsheet. The links are generated by the software. The result consists of an autonomous application, which does not necessitate the installation of the software to function on other PCs.
MediaMixer accepts file extensions Wav and Mid for the sound, Avi, Mov and Mpeg for the video, as well as most of the image formats.
Micro hebdo
"...Simple to get started on, it also benefits from a « storyboard » to visualise all the screens of an application in the form of vignettes. Full of functions…It also offers 40 transition effects for texts and innovates in offering panoramas (large images in which one can move)"
