Apple Media Tool Information

Responding to developer demand for greater authoring control and flexibility, the 2.1 release supports an enhanced array of objects, events, commands, and effects.  Enhancements include extended support for QuickTime VR, expanded user interface control, and the ability to launch applications, including Internet browsers with the ability to target multiple web sites from an AMT runtime.
 
Apple Media Tool is Apple's user-friendly, object-based cross-platform
multimedia authoring software enables users to create interactive titles
without writing code.  Interactive projects are designed using AMT's critically
acclaimed graphical user interface based on an intuitive screen-map-storyboard metaphor.  Once a project map is defined, users can quickly and easily drag & drop QuickTime VR, QuickTime movie, PICT, text (RTF), and sound files into screens and add interactivity using an assortment of menu-based commands.  Once projects are created on the Mac OS, AMT generates Mac OS and Windows (3.x and 95) runtimes, drawing  on the same cross-platform media files.

For more information on Apple Media Tool 2.1, "hints and tips" for using AMT, The Developer of the Month, and additional information. Apple Media Tool's home on the world-wide web is where developers connect. To visit the Apple Media Tool web site, if you have an Internet connection and a web browser,  you can launch it by clicking here, once the browser is launched click on the URL below.

http://amt.apple.com

Programming Environment
 
Apple has also released the 2.1 version of Apple Media Tool's companion product, Apple Media Tool Programming Environment (AMTPE ), a programming language and framework that enables programmers to customize Apple Media Tool features and extend AMT projects.

Self-Paced Training Course for Apple
Media Tool
 
Apple Developer University has developed self-paced training for the Apple Media Tool. Entitled "Multimedia Authoring With Apple Media Tool," it is available through the Apple Developer Catalog.. A free sample of the training is available on the Apple Developer website under online training at: 

http://www.devworld.apple.com/dev/du.shtml 
 
Availability
 
 To purchase the Apple Media Tool or other Apple brand software sold by Claris Corporation, call  1-800-950-5382 or your local Claris reseller.
 
Apple Media Tool Programming Environment 2.1 and the Apple Media Tool 2.1 bundle, which includes AMT and AMTPE, is available through the Apple Developer Catalog (ADC) by calling 1-800-282-2732 (U.S.), 1-800-637-0029 (Canada), or 716-871-6555 (International). You can contact ADC directly at:

adc@applelink.apple.com