Efficiently and painlessly work with media files stored outside your ToolBook
application.
Now available!
Take Control of Your Graphics and Media
Files
Tired of messing with clips? Need to manage Flash movies or MP3
files? Media Connection can build your clips for you and allow you to change
their source based on language or audience. You can do the same for bitmaps and
other resources. Manage your references to other media types via simple
OpenScript calls that return current file locations. Store narration or other
content for each clip, resource, or media file in the database.
Special Tools
Media Connection has special author-level tools for creating the database
based on your ToolBook file.
Media Connection Price
| Description |
Price |
| Media Connection |
$595
|
| 1 year Media Connection technical support (email only) |
$145
|
Educational and multiple-copy discounts are
available.
Comments
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I tested the following languages: Japanese, Korean, Chinese (PRC) and Thai. All worked perfectly! Everything imported back into ToolBook just fine! Since we had not been able to use ToolBook for double-byte language content, we have built up a library of other tools that we use depending on the type of courses we are building. Now we should be able to eliminate one or more of these other applications which will make up the cost savings to purchase the TTS.
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Here is what you get for $895: 1. The ability to take your ToolBook program and essentially with the touch of a button dump all of the text into an Access database. 2. A Translator tool that you send off to your translators. Your translators do not need to have ToolBook to use it. The translator tool shows the "English" text on the bottom of the screen. Your translator puts
the foreign language translation in the top of the translator screen. When the translator is done, he/she saves the file and sends the database file back to you. 3. You can now add buttons to your program for English version, Spanish version, etc. Your users can select the language they wish to use and the ToolBook will be populated with that language.
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Important things to note: ONE ToolBook with all languages - a huge file management benefit. Ease of use for your translators.
If somewhere down the line you find that you need a new language - no problem. You are all set up to very easily add the new language assuming that you can find someone to do the translation. If you have media that also needs to be translated, Platte Canyon has a similar product for media. (They sell a bundled connection package for under $2000.)
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I attended a Content Connection session at the recent TBCON. Slick tool and definitely worthy of your consideration. If/when our company does multilingual training, we'll be giving Platte Canyon a call.
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We offer our programs in multiple languages in both a native and web-based format. To do this, we use Platte Canyon's Content Connection which stores the text in a database for native TB use. Then, when we are ready to publish the foreign language version to DHTML, we select the language that we wish to publish to. The fields are populated with the correct language and we do the export.
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So far I have wowed quite a few people here with your program!