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 use Content Connection from Platte Canyon. Right now we use it for Portuguese and Chinese versions of our programs. It is much more than a database to swap out content. You will pay a very small price compared to what it would take for you to develop something even remotely similar in functionality, robustness, and ease of use.
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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 wanted to let you know that we use the TB Connection products from Platte Canyon and are extremely happy with them. The products are not cheap but a quick and dirty cost-benefit analysis convinced us that we needed to make the investment in the product. TB Connection makes the whole translation process go VERY smoothly :-) We are a small company and don't have the financial resources to contract a professional translation firm to do our translations so instead we barter with distributors of our products in foreign countries to do the translations. That means that we have subject matter experts, but not skilled translators doing the work for us. We needed an easy to use way for our translators to do their work with minimum hassles. We also don't have a large staff to maintain multiple versions of each of our products. The TB Connection product allows us to maintain ONE (yes ONE) version of each program (natively) and the audio and graphics are swapped out with the click of a button depending on the language. If you have experienced any of the nightmares of maintaining multiple versions of your products, you know how valuable just this feature alone is. (I know that I am sounding like an official spokesperson for the product, but I am not in cahoots with Jeff and Chris. I just think this is a great product.) By the way, we have successfully translated our products into Portuguese and Chinese and are now going to begin working on Spanish. I would recommend that at least you demo the product to see for yourself how well it works.
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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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So far I have wowed quite a few people here with your program!