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    The #1 Multimedia presentation package, Astound 2.0 integrates the newest multimedia technologies with today's traditional presentation features. Astound lets you create incredible overheads, slides, demos, handouts, kiosk presentations, and more in minutes. Just choose from over 70 pre-designed templates, or create one of your own. Every template has incredible multimedia effects built-in, and it's easy to add text charts, graphics, sound, video, animated clip art and more! Replace traditional charting elements like bars and lines with 3D charts that bounce, tumble and grow. Add custom-generated backgrounds like clouds, marble or multi-colored gradations. Make objects appear or disappear with interactive buttons. Astound gives you complete control over all of your multimedia. Astound 2.0 also comes with the Astound Media Manager which allows you to catalog, organize, search and preview your multimedia files; and, as a special bonus, Astound Studio - a complete set of six fantastic multimedia editing tools!


    Astound 2.0 for Windows

    Astound 2.0 for Macintosh and Power Macintosh

    Astound 2.0 for Windows

     

    Astound - the #1 Multimedia Presentation Program. New in Astound for Windows: Designed for Windows 95 Runtime Player!

    Astound 2.0 for Windows, Macintosh, and Power Macintosh gives you everything you need to create incredible presentations including multimedia. Whether you're a beginning or advanced presenter, Astound 2.0 lets you do it all quickly and easily.

    Just Choose a Template

    When you use one of Astound 2.0's more than 70 professionally-designed templates, it's as easy as filling in the blanks. Your text is automatically formatted with up to four bullet levels, and data can be formatted using an endless variety of 2D and 3D chart styles. Edit your entire presentation graphically in slide view, or edit all of your text in the easy-to-use outliner. Then output it in all of the traditional formats--35mm slides, overheads, outlines, handouts, and even speaker notes. But you won't want to stop there...

    Automatic Multimedia!

    Astound 2.0 is the only presentation package that can make multimedia as easy as clicking a button. Every template has multimedia effects built-in - perfect for on-screen presentations! Just click on the "play" button, and watch graphics dissolve into view, text slide onto the screen a line at a time, and charts tumble and bounce into place. All with no extra work!

    Get Creative

    The built-in effects are amazing, but you create and customize your own just as easily. Animate any object just by drawing a line, or apply a dazzling variety of transitions like dissolves, wipes, rotations, and much more. For stunning graphics, use Astound 2.0's new texture generator to fill an object with custom fills like fire, marble, clouds, and countless others.

    Engage the Senses with Sound and Video

    Add a continuous soundtrack throughout the entire presentation, or record synchronized narration on the fly. Drop in a video clip or QuickTime movie, and complete it with custom buttons to control video playback. Astound 2.0 makes it all incredibly simple.

    Involve Your Audience with Instant Interactivity

    Jump from one point in your presentation to another, make objects appear and disappear, or control a digitized video or QuickTime movie. Turn any object on your slide into an interactive "hot spot," or use the ingenious 3D button tool. Now it's easy to create an engaging presentation that actually responds to the audience.

    Easily Control Your Entire Presentation

    Astound's timeline window puts you in control over all the action. See exactly when objects enter and leave the screen, and easily synchronize multiple events with just the click of a button. For Windows users, when you need help, an expert's always at hand. Astound 2.0 for Windows new Slideshow Optimizer will automatically analyze your presentation and tell you how to make it run more smoothly. It can even make the adjustments for you!

    Find What You Need - When You Need It!

    In addition Astound 2.0 for Windows 's new Media Manager makes it easier than ever to find the right multimedia files. Catalog, organize and preview clip media, templates, presentations and more. Search for the right file by keyword, category or file type. Drag and drop any multimedia file directly into your presentation at any time.

    ADDED BONUS IN ASTOUND 2.0 FOR WINDOWS!
    ASTOUND STUDIO

    Now it's a snap to create or customize any multimedia file. Astound Studio is a complete set of multimedia editing tools that can be accessed directly from your Astound presentation. Astound Studio includes:

    • Astound Draw
    • Astound Image
    • Astound Video
    • Astound Actor
    • Astound Animator
    • Astound Sound

    With Astound, your facts, figures and charts no longer just lie there - they move. As a presenter that's the kind of impact your presentations must have.  And that's why Astound is the #1 multimedia presentation package.

    TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS FOR ASTOUND 2.0 FOR WINDOWS

    EASY TO USE

    • Create and design presentations quickly with easy-to-use "slide and outline" format
    • Choose from over 70 professionally designed templates with built-in multimedia special effects
    • Check for efficient use of all multimedia effects with the Slideshow Optimizer.
    • Import presentations created in Lotus Freelance and Microsoft PowerPoint
    • View and arrrange your presentation quickly with the slide sorter

    QUICK AND EASY TEXT EDITING

    • User-defined font, style, size, color, and bullet character for four bullet levels
    • Set character spacing and line spacing
    • Transform text documents into organized presentations with a built-in text outliner
    • Search and replace throughout presentation
    • Built-in spell checker

    DAZZLING BUSINESS CHARTS

    • Import or link to Lotus 123 and Microsoft Excel files, or directly enter worksheet data
    • Make bars and graphs bounce, tumble and grow automatically with dramatic chart animation effects
    • Rotate or add perspective to 3D charts
    • Turn clip art and other graphics into animated pictographs that dynamically represent your data
    • Choose from a multitude of new chart types including:
      • Bubble charts
      • Spider Plots
      • Histograms
    • Combine different chart types with different data series with new combination charts

    AWESOME ANIMATION AND MULTIMEDIA EFFECTS

    • Animate any or all objects in seconds.
    • Move animated objects smoothly and quickly
    • Import graphic images in TIF, PCX, GIF, BMP, DIB, CGM, RLE, PICT, TGA, WMF, Metafile, and Photo CD image formats
    • Load WAV, MIDI, or CD-Audio sounds
    • Record synchronized narration automatically
    • Play continuous sound across multiple slides
    • Place Video for Windows and QuickTime for Windows movies in your presentations
    • Play animations in .AWM or .FLI formats
    • Create text that flies on to the screen one letter, word, or line at a time with automatic text transitions
    • Choose from over 30 slide and object transitions
    • Embed or dynamically link data and objects with OLE support
    • Control laserdiscs, video cards, sound cards, and other external devices with custom MCI commands
    • Add live video with a video overlay board

    INCREDIBLE GRAPHICS FOR ADDED IMPACT

    • Create unlimited shapes with 20 built-in shape tools
    • Apply patterns or custom multi-color gradiations to any object or text
    • Generate realistic textures such as clouds, flames, stone, marble and more with texture fills
    • 24-bit support

    AMAZING INTERACTIVITY

     

    • Make any object interactive
    • Create "3D" buttons with button tool
    • Create buttons that hide or reveal any object, jump to any point in a presentation, or even control the playback of a video clip

    TIMELINES FOR PRECISE SYNCHRONIZATION

    • View all slide activity in a single window
    • Distribute events over time automatically with the click of a button
    • Place markers anywhere during slide duration to serve as "jump" points

    HARD COPY FORMATS

    • Print handouts and speaker notes in a variety of formats
    • Supports slide output service bureaus like Autographix for fast, high quality slides and overheads
    • Editable handout masters

    ON-SCREEN PRESENTATIONS

    • Distribute presentations with royalty-free runtime player
    • Adjust speed, volume, or order of presentation playback on the fly with on-screen control panel
    • Add sound effects and music uninterrupted across multiple slides
    • Use your mouse as a "notation pen" to emphasize important points in your presentation

    TONS OF CLIP MEDIA

    • CD Rom packed with clip media including sound effects, backgrounds, digital video, animations, and clip art

    EASY ACCESS TO MULTIMEDIA WITH THE MEDIA MANAGER

    • Store sound, video, animation, clipart, templates, and even entire presentations
    • Search for any file by keyword, file type, or category
    • Preview every multimedia file
    • Drag-and-drop directly into Astound or Astound Studio

    COMPLETE MULTIMEDIA EDITING WITH ASTOUND STUDIO

    • Full-featured editors for every type of multimedia file:
      • Astound Sound
        • Record, edit, cut and paste; even combine .WAV sound files.
      • Astound Image
        • Scan, retouch, resize and add special effects to photo images.
      • Astound Draw
        • Design presentation elements with powerful drawing tools, add fancy text effects, or even blend two objects into an animated morph.
      • Astound Video
        • Edit your video with this built-in digital video editor.
      • Astound Actor
        • Create or edit animated clip art for your Astound presentation.
      • Astound Animator
        • Create complete animated "movies"
      • Use as standalone editors, or launch directly from Astound for making quick changes
      • Drag-and-drop between applications
      • Launch any Astound application at any time with a single click with the Astound launcher

    SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS FOR ASTOUND FOR WINDOWS

    IBM compatible 386 processor (486 recommended) with 4MB RAM, a VGA monitor, and Windows 3.1 or Windows 95. 8MB RAM needed for Astound Studio. MPC-compatible sound card required for sound. CD-ROM required to access bonus clip media CD and Astound Studio.

    TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS FOR ASTOUND 2.0 FOR MACINTOSH AND POWER MACINTOSH

     

    EASY TO USE

    • Create and design presentations quickly with easy-to-use "slide and outline" format
    • Choose from over 70 professionally designed templates with built-in multimedia effects
    • Import presentations created in Microsoft PowerPoint and Adobe Persuasion
    • View and arrange your presentation quickly with the slide sorter

    QUICK AND EASY TEXT EDITING

    • User-defined font, style, size, color, and bullet character for three bullet levels
    • Set character spacing and line spacing
    • Transform text documents into organized presentations with a built-in text outliner
    • Search and replace throughout your presentation
    • Built-in spell checker

    DAZZLING BUSINESS CHARTS

    • Import or subscribe to Lotus 1-2-3 and Microsoft Excel files, or directly enter worksheet data
    • Make bars and graphs bounce, tumble and grow automatically with dramatic animation effects
    • Turn clip art and other graphics into animated pictographs that dynamically represent your data

    AWESOME ANIMATION AND MULTIMEDIA EFFECTS

    • Animate any or all objects in seconds
    • Import graphic images in TIF, EPS, GIF, PICT, JPEG, BMP, PCX, TGA and Photo CD image formats
    • Load WAV, AIFF or SND sound files
    • Add animated clip art in Astound's and Animation Works "actor" format
    • Record synchronized narration automatically
    • Play continuous sound across multiple slides
    • Place QuickTime movies in your presentations
    • Create text that flies on to the screen one letter, word, or line at a time with automatic text transitions
    • Choose from over 30 slide and object transitions
    • Export your presentations as QuickTime movies
    • Construct complex effects like transparencies and negative images to any object by applying an ink mode

    INCREDIBLE GRAPHICS FOR ADDED IMPACT

    • Create unlimited shapes with 20 built-in shape tools
    • Extrude shapes for dramatic 3D effect
    • Blend two objects together with the tweening function
    • Apply patterns or custom multi-color gradations to any object or text
    • Generate realistic textures such as clouds, flames, stone, marble and more with texture fills
    • Choose an array of colors using pre-defined color schemes
    • 24-bit color support

    AMAZING INTERACTIVITY

    • Make any object interactive
    • Create "3D" buttons with the Button tool
    • Create buttons that hide or reveal any object, jump to any point in a presentation, or even control the playback of a video clip

    TIMELINES FOR PRECISE SYNCHRONIZATION

    • View all slide activity in a single window
    • Distribute events over time automatically with the click of a button
    • Place markers anywhere during slide duration to serve as "jump" points
    • Check the timing of a presentation by previewing a specific time range on a slide's timeline.

    HARD COPY FORMATS

    • Print handouts and speaker notes in a variety of formats
    • Supports slide output service bureaus like Autographix for fast, high quality slides and overheads

    ON-SCREEN PRESENTATIONS

     

    • Distribute presentations with royalty-free runtime player
    • Adjust speed, volume, and order of presentation playback on the fly with on-screen control panel
    • Add sound effects and music uninterrupted across multiple slides
    • Use your mouse as a "notation pen" to emphasize important points in your presentation
    • View speaker notes on your PowerBook while showing your presentation on an external monitor
    • Supports presentation playback on multiple monitor

    TONS OF CLIP MEDIA

    • CD-ROM packed with clip media including sound effects, backgrounds,  QuickTime movies, animations, and clip art
    • Access all of your clip media easily from drag-and-drop libraries

    SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

    Any Macintosh running System 7.1 or higher. CD-ROM required to access clip media.

    Copyright 1995 Gold Disk Inc. Astound and Gold Disk are registered trademarks of Gold Disk Inc. Macintosh Power Macintosh and QuickTime are trademarks of Apple Computer. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.