MULTIMEDIA

►Interactive communication process or presentation of information of text,audio,graphic,video or animation.

ELEMENT MULTIMEDIA

TEXT

Combination of alphabets,numbers & symbol.

★Hardware use: Keyboard,Light pen.

☀Standard File Format:--*doc.-*txt-*rft

GRAPHICS

Digital representation of images.

☆Bitmap images&vector graphics.

★Hardware use:Digital camera,scanner.

☀SFF :- *bmp &*psd

VIDEO

Product of recording moving images.

★Hardware use:Camera or video machine.

☀SFF:--*avi-*mov

AUDIO

Use of speech,music & sound effects.

★Hardware use: Microphone.

☀SFF:--waf-*au-*wma

ANIMATION

Process of making a static image look like it is moving.

☆2D & 3D ☀SFF:--*swi-*gif

MODE OF MULTIMEDIA

Multimedia Interactivity ??

Refers to the way users interact with a multimedia application or program.

Linear interactivity

Non-linear interactivity

Does not allow the user to control the sequence & progress of multimedia content.

Passive receiver. Arranged in sequence. Example:Movie

User control the sequence & progress of the multimedia content.

Two way communication Using buttons or links. Users can interact with the content

according to what the users want from content.

MULTIMEDIA SOFTWARE

AUTHORING TOOLS

METAPHOR

SUPPORT SOFTWARE

Program that helps you to write the multimedia application.

Way program organizes elements.

Sequences events Delivers

Software that can be used to produce multimedia elements.

BASIC CATEGORIES

Time based Icon basedPage/Card

based

Multimedia elements or events

are presented & organized along a

timeline

The icons represent graphic,audio

files,animation,text,movies, and other elements

should be played in a logical flow or flow

chart.

The idea of page/card stacks containing

graphics,audio,video,text and animation.

SUPPORT SOFTWARE

Text editor

Graphic editor

Audio editor

Video editor

Animation editor

✿Used to edit plain text.

Examples:OpenOffice.org Writer *odt.Microsoft Word *docWordpad *rtf

✿Can edit images,draw or illustrate pictures or objects.

Examples:GIMP *xcfAdobe Photoshop *psdMicrosoft Paint *bmp

✿Used for voice recording or producing music & special sound effects.

Examples:Audacity *aupWavepad *dvs

✿Used to edit video.

Examples:Pitivi *xptvOpenShot *ospAdobe Premier *ptl

✿Producing 2D,3D, special effects and animation for the Web.

Examples:3D Blender *blendAdobe Flash *swf

MEDIUM OF DISTRIBUTION

CD-ROM

BROADBAND

KIOSK

DVD-ROM

BD-ROM

INTERNET &

INTRANET

FLASH DRIVE

CD-ROM

♣ Acroynm for compact disc-read-only memory.

♣ Users can read the contents but cannot erase or modify it content.

♣ Use laser technology to store items.

♣ CD hols 650 MB to 1GB data,instructions and information.

DVD-ROM

♣ Acronym for digital versatile disc-read-only memory or digital video disc-read-only memory.

♣ High capacity optical disk that user can read but not write on or erase.

♣ storing 4.7 GB to 17GB of data,depending on storage technique used.

BD-ROM

♣ Acronym for blu-ray disc-read-only memory.

♣ Expensive than DVD.

♣ Higher capacity

♣ Better quality

FLASH DRIVE

♣ A flash memory storage device that plugs in a USB port on computer or mobile device.

♣ Convenient for mobile users.

♣ Storage capacity 512MB to 100GB.

BROADBAND

♣ Telecommunications signal of greater bandwidth,in some sense,than another standard or usual signal.

♣Malaysian broadband provider: Maxic,Celcom,Digi.

KIOSK

♣ Any computer-like device deployed in a public venue to give people self service access to products and services.

INTRANET

♣ Private network that contained within an enterprise.

Purpose: To share company information and computing resources among employees.

INTERNET

♣ A web-based multimedia distribution.

♣Worl wide collection of networks that links millions of websites(business,government,education,individual.)