A template based production chain: using richmedia templates to assist users during content production

Mobile terminals such as smartphones and PDA are able to produce picture, audio and video contents. However, the creation and publication of a mixed content document remains quite difficult and even does not exist on mobile devices. The authoring motivates our work. In this paper we will describe a framework based on richmedia templates to assist users during all stages of a complex content production from expert user to end user. By complex content we mean mixing videos, texts, audio, pictures in a time-dependant document[4]. The richmedia language we have selected is MPEG-4 BIFS (BInary Format for Scenes)[3] for its high level integration of many media type and streaming capabilities which is decisive in a mobility context.