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Shockwave is a technology developed by
Macromedia, Inc,
that allows the user to view Web pages with multimedia objects.
Macromedia Shockwave is for the creation and playback of fully
interactive multimedia on the World Wide Web and corporate intranets.
Shockwave supports
audio, animation, video and
processes user actions such as mouse clicks.
It runs on all Windows platforms as well as the Macintosh.
To create a shockwave object,
you use Macromedia's multimedia authoring tool called
Director,
a Windows/Mac platform tool that allows you to create multimedia
movies by creating "cast members" who move and interact on a "stage".
Director uses a scripting language, called "Lingo".
Lingo is a high level scripting language that is actually quite
sophisticated and easy to use.
You then compress the object with a program called Afterburner,
and insert a reference to the "shocked" file in your Web page.
To see a Shockwave object, you need the Shockwave plug-in,
a program that integrates seamlessly with your Web browser.
The plug-in is freely available from Macromedia's Web site as either
a Netscape Navigator plug-in or an ActiveX control.
Macromedia has added support to call web pages interactively and other
network activities.
All this adds up to a potent multimedia platform combining sound,
animation, "live" objects,
and real-time interactivity that can be displayed on the web.
"Shocked" sites, as web sites that display Shockwave movies are called,
now include Apple, CNN, Sony and MTV.
Macromedia software tools
Director,
Flash,
Authorware,
FreeHand,
SoundEdit 16, and
xRes
empower you to create the most dynamic, responsive, and professional
web experience available online:
Zoomable vector graphics
Fully interactive multimedia
Streaming intranet applications
Small & fast vector-based animations
CD-quality streaming audio
Each creation tool has a corresponding Shockwave player
(plug-ins and controls are available for Netscape Navigator,
Microsoft Internet Explorer, and other popular browsers).
Shockwave players has over 17 million downloads to date,
and are preinstalled on numerous Macintosh and Windows computers,
making Shockwave the most accessible and widely used multimedia
technology on the web.