This is a very extensive product with many features. The easiest way to become familiar with its possibilities is to see it demonstrated. For this reason, we have put together a short video tour of the product so you can see it in action.

The video shows the native Omnis (ODML) product being used in a runtime copy of Omnis Studio 4.0.1. The SQL version looks exactly the same, since all that is different is the Object Class that performs data access functions. It is important to bear in mind that this is running in a runtime because there is no IDE included in such a version of Omnis Studio, yet we have a fully functioning Report Editor window available to the end user for those times when report customization is required.

Not every feature of the product could be covered in this one video. As you will see, there is a lot to cover! If this form of demonstration proves worthwhile, we will create more videos to cover specific features or sets of report properties in more detail and to guide customers through the process of integrating this product into their own libraries. Your feedback will be very helpful in determining the value of this demonstration technique.

We are going through some updates of our connection to the internet and the button that launches this movie (which is a non-streaming QuickTime movie itself) is not appearing on the page when accessed from this server. To view the movie in the interrim, open the following URL in your QuickTime Player:

rtsp://208.69.225.158:80/qtmedia/Media/crVideoTour.mov

For optimal viewing experience, viewers should download Quicktime 7 .

A note (or two) on the video: This video requires the QuickTime Player (which you can download using the link above). There are also some important settings that must be made in QuickTime (not QuickTime Player) Preferences:

• It must have its MIME settings configured to allow RTSP (real time streaming protocol). The default settings actually switch this on, but some Windows installations switch it back off.
• Under Streaming Transport, check the box labeled Use this Protocol and Port ID, then select HTTP and Port 80. Under File Type Associations, check the MPEG-4 group.

We want to show this product to you as close to full size as possible, so the video is 800x600 pixels. To aid in streaming such a large video, we set the key frame interval at 50 and the frame rate at 10 fps. This means that the "background" or static part of the video is only updated every 5 seconds. This produced (only) a few anomolies in this early attempt where a sudden change in the normally static background occurred just after a key frame and it takes a few seconds to refresh the new background. Understand that this is not a redraw problem of Omnis Studio or of our product. Our original video does not display these problems. It is strictly an artifact of the encoding for video streaming. We chose to stream this 13 minute and 30 second video rather than having you download a 89.5 MB file (365.4 MB before encoding for streaming!).