In a multimedia arrangement there are many different types of media like sound, animation, images or vector graphics. To combine these media formats we can use special applications which are called “authoring tools”.
Typical authoring tools are:
- Macromedia Director,
- Macromedia Authorware or
- Macromedia Flash.
Like a director of a film production the user of an authoring tool can produce multimedia or eLearning content with many different types of media files and bring them together into one combination.