Microsoft Media Author is quite a friendly designing tool. The way it produces multimedia file is very close to our intuition. It also provides easily understand interfaces. The reverse side of coin is it can not used to build very complex projects.

The strongert part of it is that it integrates the multimedia producing and web publishing, especially in this Internet Era.


Tips: Find or produce the audio files first. Once the audio part is done, insert the images to fit the timing. If user edit the images first, he/she may need to make a lot of modification later.


Reference:

Microsoft Media Tools Documentation
Windows Media Author help file