MULTIMEDIA

Overview

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WHAT IS

MULTIMEDIA
Multimedia

 Itis a woven combination of

digitally manipulated text,
photographs, graphic art,
sound, animation, and video
elements.
 It is richly presented sensation.
 Itcan electrify the thought and
action of people’s minds.
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Multimedia Systems
 Multimediasystems are those computer platforms
and software tools used to combine multimedia
objects.

Computer platforms Software tools

Windows & Mac Adobe products, Powerdvd etc4

Categories of Multimedia

A multimedia product may be

interactive and non interactive.
Based on that:
Linear
Non Linear

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Categories of Multimedia

 Linear Multimedia
Here users can sit back and
watch it just as they do a movie
or the television.
In such cases a project is linear,
or starting at the beginning
and running through to the
end. 6

 Eg: Cinema presentation

Categories of Multimedia

 Non Linear Multimedia

When users are given navigational
control and can wander through
the content at will, multimedia
becomes nonlinear and user
interactive, and is a powerful
personal gateway to information.
Eg: Web pages, Games
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Media Elements

Text
Graphics
Animation
Sound
Video
Text
Text can be of any
type, may be a word, a
single line, or a
paragraph.
The textual data for
multimedia can be
developed using any
text editor.
Graphics

 graphical/ pictorial
representation
 Graphics Packages
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
PaintShop Pro
Animation

Moving images or texts

Packages
3dmax,Maya,AnimatorPro
Adobe Flash / Animate
Animation
Video
 The video clips may
contain some dialogues or
sound effects and moving
pictures
 These video clips can be
combined with the audio,
text and graphics for
multimedia presentation.
 Software Packages
 Adobe Premiere, Avid
Audio
 Audio has a greater role to play in
multimedia development.
 It gives life to the static state of
multimedia.
 several types of sound
human voices, instrumental
notes, natural sound and
many more Sound

 Sound Packages
Sound Forge,Adobe
Audition,Nuendo
Authoring Tools
 Tools designed to
manage and
manipulate individual
multimedia elements
and provide user
interaction are called
Authoring Tools
 Authoring Tools
AdobeFlash / Animate