For the past 25 years, DC&R founder, David Dantowitz has been developing software, which brings thousands of hours of coding experience to every project we work on. Our in depth understanding of hardware and software technology gives us a broad perspective to address your product's needs.
Below we've presented some multimedia projects and a few of the unique challenges each one posed at the time. (Check out Shockwave samples too!)
Please note that all our projects are cross platform, Windows and MacOS compatible.
Drop us a line or call if you're interested in working with us on a project, either for an entire project or just to help troubleshoot a particular problem you might be having.
While working at Ehrlich Multimedia, from 1993 until 1995, David worked on several CD-ROM and database projects.
Summer '93. The Business Week 1000 CD-ROM was developed using a custom multimedia development tool created by David in Microsoft FoxPro. Using custom extensions to FoxPro written in C, the development system was based on a simplified card-like framework. FoxPro was selected because the program also included the complete Standard & Poors data on the 1000 companies featured on the CD-ROM. In 1993 it was easier to build multimedia (with video and sound clips) on top of a database program, than to build a sophisticated database into existing multimedia apps.
This CD Received a Bronze medal at the New Media Invision Multimedia Awards, 1994.
This CD-ROM teaches the aspects of wine tasting, includes many animations, music QuickTime and wine databases. It permits the user to create and edit their own database of wine tastings and compare their notes to 48 built-in tastings. Created in Macromedia Director and C.
This educational CD-ROM for Sandoz Pharmaceuticals explored the causes of and treatments for Migraine Headaches. Created in Director 3.0 (in the days of 24 sprite channels) this CD had some interesting challenges in order to handle the wonderful interface designed by the talented artists at Ehrlich Multimedia. Each screen had a navigation bar along the bottom and some had 10 or 20 buttons on the screen that could have on or off states as well as roll-overs. The program was a finalist in the 1994 New York Festivals, and a Bronze Medal winner in the 1994 New Media Invision Awards.
Healthcare Economics
A CD-ROM with extensive video, text, and interactive case analysis.
In 1995, David left to work at Dantowitz Consulting & Research full-time, consulting on Multimedia and Internet Technology. Below are several more CD-ROMs and interactive projects.
The Voyager Company's attention to detail in graphic design and interface design made these three CDs wonderful to work on...
Invisible Universe, created and published by The
Voyager Company
Summer '95. A wonderful CD-ROM on astronomy and viewing celestial objects over
several areas of the electromagnetic spectrum. Includes original music, tutorials
on the electromagnetic spectrum and a tour of the solar system. (Click the link
above for more information.) The "blue-screen" video on this CD is the best
I have ever seen. No dithering effects... even great in 8-bit video! 350 images
(350 color palettes), floating palettes, videos, hyperlinked text, and a hyperlinked
starmap of all 350 celestial objects. Created in Macromedia Director and quite
challenging to develop.
Sacred
and Secular, created and published by The
Voyager Company.
Winter/Spring '96. A beautiful CD featuring photographs by Marilyn Bridges.
100 B&W photographs organized on a scrolling time line, thematically, and geographically.
Each photo is presented in 3 sizes, on screen with commentary, full screen,
and in a 2Mb (huge) size that you can pan around to view certain areas. While
each view is on the screen the user can choose to listen to the photographer's
commentary, a custom music track, both, or none. This CD wound up being one
of our most enjoyable projects.
Dracula: Truth and Terror, created and published by The
Voyager Company.
Fall '96. Intriguing CD with historical and legendary information on Dracula.
Contains an entire full-length film, the text for the novel "Dracula" (fully
searchable), QT movies, narration, photographs, and Dracula legends from around
the globe (searchable), and historical accounts over the centuries about Dracula
and commentary on the novel (searchable). We created a custom search engine
to index and search the text on the CD. Everything else was pretty straight
forward. The videos have 2 sound tracks, and you can set book marks for both
the videos and the novel. A few tricks here and there to deal with color palettes,
hypertext, and so on. It was fun to develop this one from scratch after working
with Voyager on two others that were started by others.
Created initial prototypes and navigation.
An interactive demos and presentations for Axis Design.
An interactive game for The Sabre Group, with Aaron Marcus and Associates.
Created interactive prototypes of Graphical Air, for Sabre, with Aaron Marcus and Associates.
Two Formulary Kits on disk, an interactive book on disk for World Health Communications.
CIMIT Interactive CD-ROM presentation (text, graphics, animations, and video), for Interactive X.
Interactive CD-ROM catalog for ALEX. Hundreds of products, videos, text, voice, interactive demos, and links to the web.
Unit of Life, a visual primer, from Cogito Learning Media, with Aaron Marcus and Associates. Won 1998 award from Communications Arts for Best Interactive Design.
Interactive network-based kiosk, for Compaq Computer's Customer Care Center. Interactive question and answer survey, video was compressed and color matched seamlessly to the background, with animations, and support for multiple kiosks to save information on a central server.
Slide Kit CD-ROM, for World Health Communications.
HIV and AIDS, a visual primer, from Cogito Learning Media, with Aaron Marcus and Associates.