Although INDIE provided in-tool text-editing facilities, it did not provide any video or art editing. Authors did video editing in professional video tools like Adobe Premiere [Adobe 1998]. Authors tended to write text to take the place of movies and use it until the content of the video was settled upon, or else equivalent expert video was shot. Authors frequently shot their own video with use of shared video equipment (cameras, lights) at the Institute for the Learning Sciences. One experiment with using digital cameras to shoot stand-in video instead of text ended unsuccessfully, with the maxim ``Use good video or no video at all.''
Art, from splash screens to buttons to diagrams, was constructed in picture-editing tools such as Adobe Photoshop [Adobe 1997].