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Hardware and Software

This document discusses hardware and software used for multimedia. It describes common multimedia hardware like scanners, cameras, and audio devices. It then discusses editing software for text, graphics, audio, video, and animation. Authoring tools are discussed in terms of time frame, icon, and card concepts. Finally, it mentions text-based and WYSIWYG web editors.

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Hardware and Software

This document discusses hardware and software used for multimedia. It describes common multimedia hardware like scanners, cameras, and audio devices. It then discusses editing software for text, graphics, audio, video, and animation. Authoring tools are discussed in terms of time frame, icon, and card concepts. Finally, it mentions text-based and WYSIWYG web editors.

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HARDWARE

AND
SOFTWARE
HARDWARE
Multimedia hardware that commonly used:

Scanner
Camera
Video camera
Video capture device
Audio device
Scanner
Convert conventional images,
texts, drawings and photos into
digital form that can be
understood by the computer.

Camera
A digital camera, capture still
images and store in a media
card.
Video camera
A digital video camera records
video in digital signals.

Video capture device


Help to convert analog video to
digital video.
Audio device
Devices are needed to record analog sound. The
sounds are then changed into digital sound.
Examples of devices used for recording sounds or
audio are microphone, sound card, etc
EDITING SOFTWARE
There are five editing software that can be used to
produce multimedia elements.

text editor
graphics & image editor
audio editor
video editor
animation editor
Text editor to insert text into multimedia application.
E.g : Proprietary E.g : Open Source
1. Notepad 1. Sun OpenOffice.Write
2. Microsoft Office Word 2. AbiWord
Graphics and image editor to create and modify graphical
images.
E.g : Proprietary E.g : Open Source
1. Adobe Photoshop 1. GIMP
2. Adobe Illustration 2. Inkscape
3. Corel Draw 3. Picasa
Audio editor to edit audio such cut and paste audio file.
E.g : Proprietary E.g : Open Source
1. Sound Forge 7.0 1. Audacity
2. Sound Recorder 2. Ardour
3. Adobe Audition
Video editor to edit video clips.
E.g : Proprietary E.g : Open Source
1. Pinnacle Studio 1. JahShaka
2. Adobe Premier 2. Cinelerra
3. Sony Vegas
4. Windows Movie Maker
5. Apple iMovie

Animation editor to create and edit animation.


E.g : Proprietary E.g : Open Source
1. Macromedia Flash 1. Blender
2. 3D Studio Max
3. Ulead 3D Studio
AUTHORING TOOLS
There are three concepts in authoring tool:

Time frame concept


Icon concept
Card concept
Time frame concept
The multimedia elements or events are presented and
organised along a time line.
Example Macromedia Director and Macromedia Flash
Icon concept
The users can present visually a logical flow of events by
dragging icons from an icon menu.
Example Authorware, Comel and Icon Author
Card concept
Elements and events are organised as pages in a book or
a stack of cards.
Example Toolbook Assistant, Microsoft Office Power
Point 2007, HyperCard and SuperCard.
WEB EDITORS
There are two types of web editors; text-based and
WYSISYG.

Text-based
A basic editor where you work with Hypertext Markup Language
(HTML) tags to create a Web page.
Example Notepad and PSPad

WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get)


Provide an editing interface that shows how the pages will be
displayed in a web browser.
Example Microsoft FrontPage, Microsoft Office Word and
Macromedia Dreamweaver.

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