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Aris Multimedia Entertainment, Inc.
310 Washington Blvd., Suite 100
Marina del Rey, CA 90292
(310) 821-0234
(310) 821-6463 FAX
We would like to hear from you, either for tech support, problems or comments about these or other Aris products.
IMPORTANT LICENSING AND COPYRIGHT INFORMATION╔
Aris provides only limited use rights to the pictures, sounds and videos: Media Clips¬ can be reproduced royalty free in print or digital publications, except that resale in the form of clip art collections or as clip art is not permitted. Users must not reproduce more than 20% of the individual pictures, sounds or videos without the prior written permission of Aris Multimedia Entertainment, Inc. Users must credit the artist and reproduce the following notice in the publications listing of copyrights, as well as adjacent to the reproduction in print works "⌐ Aris Multimedia Entertainment, Inc., 1993."
Flower Blooming Videos: Copyright Energy Productions, Inc. 1993
Audio: Copyright ⌐(P) Jamie Brehm, 1993
Media Clips software is Copyright ⌐ 1991, 1993, Aris Entertainment and may not be used on any other product without the express written permission of Aris Entertainment.
Aris Entertainment's LICENSOR(S) MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, REGARDING THE SOFTWARE. Aris Entertainment's LICENSOR(S) DOES NOT WARRANT, GUARANTEE OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OR THE RESULTS OF THE USE OF THE SOFTWARE IN TERMS OF ITS CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, CURRENTNESS OR OTHERWISE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE RESULTS AND PERFORMANCE OF THE SOFTWARE IS ASSUMED BY YOU. THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES IS NOT PERMITTED BY SOME STATES. THE ABOVE EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU."
IN NO EVENT WILL Aris Entertainment's LICENSOR(S), AND THEIR DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES OR AGENTS (COLLECTIVELY Aris Entertainment's LICENSOR) BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL OR INDIRECT DAMAGES (INCLUDING DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF BUSINESS INFORMATION, AND THE LIKE) ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE SOFTWARE EVEN IF Aris Entertainment's LICENSOR HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. BECAUSE SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. Aris Entertainment's Licensor's liability to you for actual damages from any cause whatsoever, and regardless of the form of the action (whether in contract, tort (including negligence), product liability or otherwise will be limited to $50.
Macintosh and Apple are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. QuickTime and the QuickTime Logo are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc., used under license. HyperCard is a registered trademark of Claris, Inc. Media Clips and Deep Voyage¬ are trademarks of Aris Entertainment.
WHAT'S NEW:
New in version 4.1
Big Screen Support!
If you have a big screen monitor you will be able to take advantage of the new 24 Bit XL picture size available on the newest Aris Media Clips¬ discs. Perfect for 17╙ monitors!
Ñ Support for low memory situations has been added by drawing direct to the screen when necessary.
Ñ Changing pictures has been greatly enhanced too! No more staring at blank screens.
Ñ Create Movie Previews from locked discs! If you own an older Aris Media Clips¬ disc that does not contain previews for its QuickTime¬ movies, you can choose to view them as TEXT in the Movie Picker window or to Import them into resource file (along with all the color icons that the Picture Picker uses). Read on for instructions.
Ñ Many internal changes to enhance performance and reliability.
Large JPEG images are now supported.
The picture picker and movie picker have been improved.
The movies on this disc have all been done in Quick Time 1.5. They are sampled at 240 x 180 at 24 bits using the Apple Compact Video compression algorithm.
Changes in version 4.0.2
We greatly speeded up the display of the Sound Picker, Picture Picker and Movie Picker windows. Also allow them to be resized. The preferences dialog has been modified and large screen monitor support added to background.
Previous versions of Media Clips¬ software relied on internal resources to display certain windows (most notably, the Picture Picker). This made switching discs awkward because the Picker still displayed the original disc╒s contents. (*There was an undocumented feature to import the Picture Picker resources from one disc to another by holding down the Option-Key while selecting the Picture Picker icon.) The stack has always had the ability to operate from a hard drive for this reason.
In order to address these and other issues, external resource files have been developed. On an actual CD-ROM product these resources would reside within the DATA folder, but to allow the use of older Aris¬ discs they can be located wherever the Media Clips¬ stack is located on your hard drive. In the future we may move these to your preferences folder with the option to delete them after a session. They can range between 132k to 212k depending on the existence of QuickTime¬ movies.
To Create A New Resource File
In the future these files may be self-creating. In the present they need a little help. Please follow these steps.
1) Place an Aris¬ disc in your CD-ROM drive.
2) Place the Media Clips¬ stack on your hard drive.
3) Launch the stack. (It will find the CD-ROM and bring up the first picture.)
4) Hold the Option-Key down while you click on the ╥Picture Picker╙ button on the palette.
5) You╒ll be prompted to extract icons from a folder. Choose the 24 bit folder of the disc in your CD-ROM drive.
6) Save it to the SAME directory that the stack is in with the file name that it prompts you to use.
(EXAMPLE: Jets.Resources) This will take a minute or two.
7) Option-Click on the Movie icon if QuickTime¬ is present, Otherwise there will be no Movie icon.
8) You will be prompted to locate the Movies folder.
9) This time you will be asked to locate the resource file that you just created in step six.
Previews of each movie will be added to that file.
10) You╒re done. Enjoy the disc.
Oh, by the way...
You can use the Picture Picker and Movie Picker without creating the resource file. If no file is found, they will display their contents as text. Also holding down the Option-Key will override any resource files and display text as well.
Ñ If there is no resource file:
The Picture Picker and the Movie Picker will display their windows as Text.
╫ Hold down the Option-Key to build a new resource file.
Ñ If there is a resource file:
The Picture Picker and the Movie Picker will display their windows as Pictures.
╫ Hold down the Option-Key to display their windows as Text.
You can have as many resource files as you do Aris¬ CD-ROMs and switch between them without quitting the Media Clips¬ Hypercard stack.
STARTING UP:
When Media Clips first starts up it checks the directory that it's in for the files it needs. If it doesn't find them, it checks for a Media Clips CD-ROM. If it doesn't find one it will ask you to locate one. After that Media Clips will function just as you would expect it to if you were running it off it╒s CD-ROM.
LOCALIZING:
If you want to copy an Aris Media Clips disc (or just a few of the files) to a local Hard Drive;
1) Create a folder. (You may call it anything you like)
2) Create the same folders inside of your new Media Clips folder that you find on your Media Clips CD-ROM.
3) Copy the files with the SAME NAMES from EACH folder so that you have pictures and sounds of the same name in each of the folders. (Look at the way we designed the layout of the CD-ROM.)
PICTURE PICKER:
The PICTURE PICKER is window that displays little pictures (or Thumbnails) of all the 100 pictures on the CD-ROM. By double-clicking on any one of them you will be taken to that picture. Single-clicking will display the image's title.
PLEASE NOTE: The PICTURE PICKER in this stack contains Thumbnails of the pictures that THIS stack came with.
SOUND PICKER:
The SOUND PICKER provides a graphic display and description of the sounds that are on the disc. Each circle represents a sweep second hand display of the length of each sound "cue" in seconds. The black portion of the circle represents running time. For example, a fifteen second "cue" would have the upper right quadrant of the circle filled with black, much as you would expect from the face of a clock. The actual time of a "cue", in seconds and tenths of a second, are found right below the circle representing that "cue". The remaining area is color coded with the style of the sound, which are described in a legend at the bottom of the window. To view the name of each "cue", single click on the circle, and the name will appear in the window to the lower right. To play the sound, just double click on the circle or use the "PLAY" button. As the sound plays, the sweep second hand "sweeps" the face of the clock. Use the scroll bar to navigate the SOUND PICKER window. Use the "GO TO" button to go to the image associated with the sound.
MOVIE PICKER:
A MOVIE PICKER icon has been added to the Palette. If your disk came with QuickTime¬ movies (this disc does!), then the MOVIE PICKER will play them just like the PICTURE PICKER displays pictures. If you click on the first frame of the PICKER window then the first movie in the MOVIE folder will be played. All of the QuickTime¬ controls will be displayed at the bottom of the movie so you can play it over and over.
No provision for copying movies has been provided at this time, but if you have ╥WILD MAGIC╙ or a similar utility then you can copy and paste QuickTime¬ movies directly into the scrapbook or other applications. Generally if you want to copy a movie, open the MOVIES folder from within the Finder and copy it directly.
System Requirements
The minimum memory requirement for Full Bloom¬ is a HyperCard size of 2 MB. You can check the size of your HyperCard program with the "Get Info" command from the File menu of the finder. 24 bit image display requires a minimum of 3 MB, as each image takes nearly 1 MB.
Installing QuickTime¬
QuickTime¬ 1.5 is required if you wish to use or view the videos. It has been included on this disc for your convenience. If you don't have QuickTime¬ installed on your Macintosh, just drag the "Q" icon on the CD-ROM to your extension folder inside your system folder. Check the System 6 Init folder, if you are using System 6.
This stack was written with HyperCard 2.1 and requires this version or greater to run. If you don't have a recent version, one is available on this disc. Please note that Apple, HyperCard¿, and Macintosh¿ are all registered trade marks of Apple Computer, Inc. This stack was very creatively written by Bill Dawson, who did an awesome job. Bill applied quite a bit of extra effort to the picture and movie pickers and they really look great. Special thanks to Linda Neumann and Rachel Cohen at Apple for all of their support.
There are 100 images and sounds and 25 movies on the disc. 8-bit images are available with both system and adaptive palettes for use as full screen backgrounds on the Mac II's (640 x 480) and the LC (512 x 384). Adaptive palettes provide truer color rendition, but may affect the representations of icons on the desktop.
Sounds were all composed by Jamie Brehm, captured to DAT and converted to the Macintosh with the AudioMedia board, then downsampled to 8-bit with SoundEdit.
Video was sampled from a Pioneer LD-V8000 video disc player.
About Aris Media Clips
Aris Media Clips have been created to offer clip art for multimedia-media computing at an affordable price. The idea is to allow designers, producers, and people giving presentations to build collections of the finest quality content without the hassle and expense of royalties or fees. Aris CD-ROM subjects are appealing and fun. Many professional artists have drawers full of work that don't get proper recognition. Aris Media Clips give you the chance for recognition, as well as a royalty from sales of the discs. If you are an artist with paintings, photographs, music, animation or drawings, please contact Diane Heppting at Aris about the possibilities of creating an Aris Media Clips disc of your work.
