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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We have done a lot of work with Content Connection. It has enabled us to very quickly and easily create foreign language versions of our programs. While there are some limitations and challenges that we have in many cases found a way to work around, we would not be able to afford the manpower and liability due to errors that would be required to do the translations the way that we would have to do them without the translator. Content Connection is a fantastic tool if you need to do translations.
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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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Here is another example of how we use Content connection: Our programs are geared toward manufacturing companies, but the topics are also relevant for service companies, but require a "translation." No problem... we handle it just like a foreign translation. Extend this idea to doing "custom" versions of programs for various customer groups/types to meet specific needs and you have a very powerful tool for under $1,000.
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We just recently translated one of our programs to Chinese using Platte Canyon's TB Connection and associated translators (great programs BTW).
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Excellent tool. It's all worked perfectly to date.