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Multimedia: Making It Work: Chapter 1: What Is Multimedia?

Multimedia is a combination of different media types that can be delivered electronically. It involves text, graphics, sound, animation and video. Multimedia projects require creative, technical and business skills to develop and can be interactive, allowing user control, or linear without interactivity. Such projects are typically distributed via CD-ROM, DVD or hosted online, and are used in various contexts like business, education, public spaces and homes. Virtual reality further extends multimedia through 3D computer-generated environments.

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Multimedia: Making It Work: Chapter 1: What Is Multimedia?

Multimedia is a combination of different media types that can be delivered electronically. It involves text, graphics, sound, animation and video. Multimedia projects require creative, technical and business skills to develop and can be interactive, allowing user control, or linear without interactivity. Such projects are typically distributed via CD-ROM, DVD or hosted online, and are used in various contexts like business, education, public spaces and homes. Virtual reality further extends multimedia through 3D computer-generated environments.

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Multimedia: Making It Work

Chapter 1: What is Multimedia?

Overview
Introduction to multimedia. Applications of multimedia. Virtual reality (VR).

Introduction to Multimedia

Multimedia

is a combination of text, art, sound, animation, and video. is delivered to the user by electronic or digitally manipulated means. creative, technical, organizational, and business skills.

A multimedia project development requires

Multimedia becomes interactive multimedia when a user is given the option of controlling the elements. Interactive multimedia is called hypermedia when a user is provided a structure of linked elements for navigation. Multimedia developers develop multimedia projects.

Introduction to Multimedia

The software vehicle, the messages, and the content together constitute a multimedia project. A multimedia project shipped to end-users with or without instructions is called a multimedia title. A project can also be launched on the Web. Multimedia projects can be linear or nonlinear. Projects that are not interactive are called linear. Projects where users are given navigational control are called non-linear and user-interactive.

Introduction to Multimedia
Authoring tools are used to merge multimedia elements into a project. These software tools are designed to manage individual multimedia elements and provide user interaction. The primary media for delivering multimedia projects are:

Compact disc read-only (CD-ROM). Digital Versatile Disc (DVD).

Compact Disc Read-Only (CD-ROM)


CD-ROM is the most cost-effective distribution medium for multimedia projects. It can contain up to 80 minutes of fullscreen video or sound. CD burners are used for reading discs and converting the discs to audio, video, and data formats.

Digital Versatile Disc (DVD)


Multilayered DVD technology increases the capacity of current optical technology to 18 GB. DVD authoring and integration software is used to create interactive front-end menus for films and games. DVD burners are used for reading discs and converting the disc to audio, video, and data formats. Flash drives (thumb drives, memory sticks, USB drives) will probably replace CD and DVD technologies in the long term

Introduction to Multimedia
Copper wire, glass fiber, and radio/cellular technologies also serve a means for delivering multimedia files across a network. Linking up online requires distributed resources.

Applications of Multimedia

Business - Business applications for multimedia include presentations training, marketing, advertising, product demos, databases, catalogues, instant messaging, and networked communication.

Applications of Multimedia

Schools - Educational software can be developed to enrich the learning process.

Home - Most multimedia projects reach the homes via television sets or monitors with built-in user inputs.

Public places - Multimedia will become available at stand-alone terminals or kiosks to provide information and help.

Virtual Reality (VR)

Virtual reality is an extension of multimedia. It uses the basic multimedia elements of imagery, sound, and animation. It requires terrific computing horsepower to be realistic. In VR, cyberspace is made up of thousands of geometric objects plotted in three-dimensional space. The standards for transmitting VR in Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) documents have been developed on the World Wide Web. VRML documents have the file extension .wrl.

Summary

Multimedia is a combination of text, graphic art, sound, animation, and video. Multimedia projects can be linear or nonlinear. Multimedia projects are often stored on CD-ROM or DVDs. They can also be hosted on the Web. Multimedia is widely used in business, schools, public places, and at home. Virtual reality is an extension of multimedia.

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