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Chapter-3_Multimedia Communication Tools

Multimedia refers to the integration of text, graphics, sound, animation, and video delivered via computer, with interactive multimedia allowing user control over these elements. The document outlines various multimedia communication tools, including familiar tools like word processors and spreadsheets, multimedia authoring tools that help create applications, and elemental tools for working with graphics, sound, and animations. It details different types of authoring tools such as card-based, icon-based, and time-based tools, along with elemental tools like painting software, CAD, image editing, OCR software, sound editing programs, and tools for creating animations and digital movies.

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Chapter-3_Multimedia Communication Tools

Multimedia refers to the integration of text, graphics, sound, animation, and video delivered via computer, with interactive multimedia allowing user control over these elements. The document outlines various multimedia communication tools, including familiar tools like word processors and spreadsheets, multimedia authoring tools that help create applications, and elemental tools for working with graphics, sound, and animations. It details different types of authoring tools such as card-based, icon-based, and time-based tools, along with elemental tools like painting software, CAD, image editing, OCR software, sound editing programs, and tools for creating animations and digital movies.

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Multimedia

Chapter-3

Multimedia Communication Tools

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Introduction
 Multimedia is any combination of text, graphic, sound, animation and video that is
delivered by computer.
 When you allow the user to control what and when these elements are delivered, it is
interactive multimedia.

Multimedia Communication Tools


1. Familiar Tools
2. Multimedia Authoring Tools
3. Elemental Tools

1. Familiar Tools
• Word Processors : Microsoft Word, WordPerfect
• Spreadsheets : Excel
• Databases : Q+E Database
• Presentation Tools : PowerPoint

2. Multimedia Authoring Tools


 A multimedia authoring tool is a program that helps you write multimedia applications.
 A multimedia authoring tool enables you to create a final application merely by linking
together objects, such as a paragraph of text, an illustration, or a song.
 They are used exclusively for applications that present a mixture of textual, graphical,
and audio data.
 With multimedia authoring software you can make video productions including CDs and
DVDs, design interactivity and user interface, animations, screen savers, games,
presentations, interactive training and simulations.

Types of Authoring Tools


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 Card or Page-based Tools
 Icon-based Tools
 Time-based Tools
Card or Page-based authoring tools
 In these authoring systems, elements are organized as pages of a book or stack of
cards.
 The authoring system lets you link
these pages or cards into
organized sequence and they also
allow you to play sound elements
and launch animations and digital
videos.
 Page-based authoring systems are
object-oriented: the objects are the
buttons, graphics and etc.
 Each object may contain a
programming script activated
when an event related to that object occurs.
Example: Visual Basic

Icon-based authoring tools


 Icon-based, event-driven tools provide a visual programming approach to organizing
and presenting multimedia.
 First you build the flowchart of
events, tasks and decisions by
using appropriate icons from a
library.
 These icons can include menu
choices, graphic images and
sounds. When the flowchart is
built, you can add your content:
text, graphics, animations, sounds
and video movies.
Example: Authorware Professional

Time-based authoring tools


 Time-based authoring tools are the most common of multimedia authoring tools.
 In these authoring systems, elements are organized along a time line.

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 They are the best to use when you have message with the beginning and an end.
Sequentially organized graphic frames are played back at the speed that you can set.
Other elements (such as audio events) are triggered at the given time or location in
the sequence of events.
Example: Animation Works Interactive

3. Elemental tools
 Elemental tools help us work with the important basic elements of your project: its
graphics, images, sound, text and moving pictures.
Elemental tools include:
 Painting And Drawing Tools
 Cad And 3-D Drawing Tools
 Image Editing Tools
 OCR Software
 Sound Editing Programs
 Tools For Creating Animations And Digital Movies
Painting and Drawing Tools
 Painting and drawing tools are the most important items in your toolkit because the
impact of the graphics in your project will likely have the greatest influence on the end
user.
 Painting software is dedicated to producing excellent bitmapped images.
 Drawing software is dedicated to producing line art that is easily printed to paper.
Drawing packages include powerful and
expensive computer-aided design (CAD)
software.
Example: Deskdraw, Deskpaint, Designer

CAD and 3-D Drawing Tools


 ‍CAD (computer-aided design) is a software used by architects, engineers, drafters,
artists and others to create precision drawings or technical illustrations.

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 It can be used to create two-dimensional (2-D) drawings or three dimensional
modules.
 The CAD images can spin about in space,
with lighting conditions exactly simulated
and shadows properly drawn.
 With CAD software you can stand in front
of your work and view it from any angle,
making judgments about its design.
Example: AutoCAD
Image Editing Tools
 Image editing applications are specialized and powerful tools for enhancing and
retouching existing bitmapped images.
 These programs are also indispensable
for rendering images used in multimedia
presentations.
 Modern versions of these programs also
provide many of the features and tools of
painting and drawing programs, and can
be used to create images from scratch as
well as images digitized from scanners,
digital cameras or artwork files created by painting or drawing packages.
Example: Photoshop
OCR Software
 Often you will have printed matter and other text to incorporate into your project, but
no electronic text file.
 With Optical Character Recognition
(OCR) software, a flat-bed scanner
and your computer you can save
many hours of typing printed words
and get the job done faster and more
accurately.
Example: Perceive

Sound Editing Programs


 Sound editing tools for both digitized and MIDI
sound let you see music as well as hear it.

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 By drawing the representation of the sound in a waveform, you can cut, copy, paste
and edit segments of the sound with great precision and making your own sound
effects.
 Using editing tools to make your own MIDI files requires knowing about keys, notations
and instruments and you will need a MIDI synthesizer or device connected to the
computer.
Example: SoundEdit Pro
Tools for creating Animations and Digital Movies
 Animations and digital movies are sequences of
bitmapped graphic scenes (frames), rapidly played back.
 But animations can also be made within an authoring system by rapidly changing the
location of objects to generate an appearance of motion.
 Movie-making tools let you edit and assemble video clips captured from camera,
animations, scanned images, other digitized movie segments.
 The completed clip, often with added transition and visual effects can be played back.
Example: Animator Pro and SuperVideo Windows

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