Hyperstudio

If you're part of the generation that mixes and mashes, the generation that makes movies instead of just watching them, the generation that blogs and tweets instead of just reading or watching the news, the generation that makes podcasts instead of just listening to the radio, then you'll want to get to know HyperStudio for Mac OS X and Windows. HyperStudio is all about media fusion.

HyperStudio gives you the ability to create rich, interactive, multimedia presentations. If you imagine each screen of a presentation as one "card" (a bit like a slide of a PowerPoint presentation), then when you create a number of these, you end up with one "stack" of cards. This stack is your presentation....or project file or multimedia application. And these can be distributed freely in a number of ways which don't require others to have a copy of HyperStudio on their computer. HyperStudio stacks are also cross-platform, so they can be shared and viewed by PC, Mac and (depending on the approach you take for distribution) linux users also.

Prices in NZ dollars. Excludes GST (NZ only) and freight
Hyperstudio 5.0 Mac
139.00
HYPER2
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Hyperstudio 4.5 Windows
139.00
HYPER1
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Developed by HyperStudio creator Roger Wagner and Software MacKiev, the new HyperStudio 5 is both true to the original design and updated for modern times with podcasting, iLife® integration and more.

Hyperstudio start screen

New features include:

  • Podcasting Support
    Export presentations to iPod® video format
  • "Live" Object Mode
    Even individual brush strokes can be edited
  • Import from iTunes®
    Bring in music from iTunes playlists
  • More Import Sources
    Keynote®*,YouTube™, old HyperStudio® stacks
  • Card Index
    Easily navigate between cards from the main screen
  • Additional Text Options*
    Including kerning, outlines, and shadows
  • Advanced Graphic Effects
    Antique, Crystallize, Zoom Blur, Pixellate, etc.
  • Tool Settings Drawer
    Contains appropriate settings for each tool
  • Customizable Toolbar*
    Set to display the most frequently used tools
  • More Brush Styles
    Dozens of new brushes including 3D paint styles
  • Transparent objects, including movies
  • Rotatable objects, including movies
  • Graphic objects retain original underlying graphic, so there is no "pixelating" when a graphic object is made smaller, then later made larger again.
  • Drag-and-drop from other applications, in particular a browser window, on to a card.
  • Shadow effect with offset, blur and angle
  • More ways to choose colours (OS X colour choosers)
  • Can drop an animation on to a button
  • Customisable "tool bar" with icon short-cuts for common operations
  • Can drop a folder of graphic images on to the HS application icon, and it will instantly make a stack of "x" cards with one card for every graphic.
  • Being able to option-drag a card in the Card Index or Storyboard to make a duplicate copy
  • Real-time "alignment guide" lights up with red lines when something being placed aligns with another object on the card.
  • Ability to place an object outside of the visible card, but on the HS workspace. Handy to "park" an object while deciding where to place it on a card.
  
* Currently this functionality does not work or works with limitations in the Windows edition.

Includes:
1300+ Clipart graphics
500+ Background images
200+ Animations
280+ Sounds
30+ Movies, including semi-3D QTVR objects and panoramas

Export Formats for Projects: JPG, MOV, M4V (movie clips for iPod and iPhone), HTML, Standalone Player

Import Formats:

  • Graphics: PDF, PNG, JPEG, TIFF, GIF, BMP, PICT, PSD
  • Icons: ICO, CUR, ICNS
  • Sounds: MP3, AAC, WAV, AIFF, M4A, M4B, M4P, SND, CDDA, AU
  • Movies: MOV, AVI, MPEG, QTVR