Overview

This simple tutorial is intended to help you understand how to take advantage of the capabilities of XMT-O to create MPEG-4 presentations.

MPEG-4 is a new multimedia standard for coding and composing audio, video, graphics, text, etc. into a presentation scene with user interactivity. MPEG-4 coding treats a scene as a collection of media objects each of which is individually coded, and can be dynamically updated.

XMT-O is a high-level textual descriptions of MPEG-4 content. It is authored in the XMT (Extensible MPEG-4 Textual Format in XML) standard. The high-level format XMT-O, based on the SMIL 2.0 syntax and semantics, provides a comprehensive authoring facilities utilizing MPEG-4 Systems, including graphics, animation, and user interaction.

The following exercises are included:

1. Create a simple presentation with an image. The image is the background picture frame and area for a text description of the picture.
2. Add a sequence pictures to the picture frame. The pictures are four images.
3. Add text descriptions for the pictures.
4. Use definitions to share the text fontstyle and material.
5. Use regions to arrange the layout of the pictures and text.
6. Add animation to animate the arrival and departure of the text description of the picture.
7. Add transitions between the pictures.
8. Add credits at the end using groups and various graphic objects.
9. Add transitions to the groups containing the credits.
10. Change the pictures from images to video content.

Each exercise will build on the previous exercise. The following illustration depicts the final presentation you will create it in the exercises that follow.