Ezedia is a company in Winnipeg, Manitoba (just up the road from here), that creates great and inexpensive multimedia authoring environments. They have been working on an interactive Quicktime authoring system for some time and this product was released at MacWorld.
EzediaQTI creates Quicktime movies but you have to “think different” to understand exactly what you can create. If you have had experience with hypercard (my all time favorite), Toolbook, or HyperStudio, think in terms of the book/stack that you create (cards, buttons, text, images, movies). Quicktime has similar capabilities (frames in the movie serving as pages) — there just hasn’t been an easy to use authoring environment. Until now. The really cool thing is that Quicktime is well suited to web delivery. So it will now be much easier to create interactive experiences for the web. The price – right now educators can get it for $69. Regular price looks like $100. Trust me on this one — you need this product.
I created a very basic demo last night. The Quicktime component does not have to be this small. The movie within the movie is something I happened to have available.
