UNIT 1
INTRODUCTION
Multimedia is anything and everything that we watch and listen in a form of text, photograph, audio, video and many.
It can be recorded and played, displayed or accessed by information content processing devices such as computerized and electronic devices.
It is used in business, schools, home, public places and virtual reality.
These have many functions to do many things and have made the things to more mobile.
Every day, everybody run with multimedia things in their daily life. They are very important for our daily life. Especially when it comes to the Internet, it is becoming more and more important and is one of the newest and most forward-looking multimedia for our future.
That main multimedia sector we normally used are
Internet
Computer
Music
Study online
mobile phone
Game
Television
Flash drive
Software
- Computer and internet are used every day for studying ,email to someone ,read news, music etc.
- Music is very important because it is used in train, in car, for relaxation of mind and body.
- Mobile phone is used for making calls to other person, user’s context, personal schedule, diary, short messages, photos, and videos.
- Study online is important for student because they don’t have a time ,they can learn from online with internet or television or radio or music player.
It is a system capable of processing multimedia data and applications.
It is characterized by the processing, storage, generation, manipulation and rendition of Multimedia information.
They are integrated.
- Text
- It is very important component as most of the information can be presented with this.
- It can be emphasized by using fonts, colours, styles etc.
2. Graphics
- It is a digital representation of non-textual information such as drawing, photographs etc. known as graphics.
- The graphic medium can be used with text medium.
3. Video
- It is an effective medium,
- It presents moving images.
- Here, images are slightly varied at the speed of 15-30 frames per second.
4. Audio
- It can be music, speech or any other sound.
- It is usually combined with animation medium.
5. Animation
- It presents the sequence of still images of artwork at a rapid speed.
References:
- Multimedia : Computing, Communications & Applications by Ralf Steinmetz and Klara Nahrstedt, Pearson Ed.
2. Multimedia Systems Design by Prabhat K. Andleigh & Kiran Thakrar, PHI.
3. Principles of Multimedia by Parekh, TMH.
