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Unit II

Multimedia Hardware and Software

By Prof R. K. Kadu

Macintosh & Windows Production Platform

Macintosh - Uses RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computing )- 1994 - Used as a workstation and commercial data base servers Networking Mac and Window Computer
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Connections :

Small Computer System Interface (SCSI)

Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE) -2.5 MB/ Sec Ultra- IDE 33 MB/Sec Advance Technology Attachment (ATA) 150 MB /Sec Ultra ATA USB Universal Serial Bus
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Memory & Storage Devices

RAM , ROM Floppy Device , Hard Disk, Zip Drive DVD Flash Drives CD-ROM Player CD Recorder

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Input Device

Keyboard Mice Trackball Touch screens Magnetic Card Encoder & Reader Graphics Tablet Flat Bed Scanner Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Infrared Remotes Voice Recognition System Digital Cameras
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Output Devices :

Audio Devices : Amplifiers & Speakers Video Devices Monitor Projectors Printers

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Communication Devices

Modems Integrated Service Digital Network (ISDN) Cable Modem

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Basic Software Tools :

Text Editing & Word Processing Tools OCR Software Painting & Drawing Tool 3-D Modeling & Animation Tools Image Editing Tool Sound Editing Tools Animation, Video, Digital Movie Tools

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Compressing Movie Files :

Compression Ratio Image quality Compression / Decompression speed

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Linking Multimedia Object

AppleEvent DDE ( Dynamic Data Exchange ) and OLE (Object Linking & Embedding)

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# Making Instant Multimedia

# Multimedia Authoring Tools


Types of Authoring tools Card or Page based tools Icon based ,event driven based tools Time based tools

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Right tool for the job


Editing feature Organizing feature Programming feature Interactivity feature Performance tuning feature Playback feature Delivery feature Cross platform feature Internet Playability
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The End

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