PowerPoint Presentation on Multimedia for Bentley College's IT101-013 class.

1. Multimedia Multimedia is the use of several different media to convey information (text, audio, graphics, animation, video, and interactivity). -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia (accessed 12/05/2005

2. Graphics and Multimedia Software Discovering Computers: 2005. Shelly Cashman Vermaat 2005 p. 150 Fig. 3-21

5. Examples of Color Depth 1-bit depth 16-bit depth 8-bit depth 4-bit depth

8. GIF/JPEG GIF: 856 kb jpeg: 571 kb

10. Sound Formats Media that is processed and played as it is downloaded Requires installing RealAudio, known as streaming RealAudio Limited to synthesizers and music files. Much smaller than other files. Stores instructions, not samples. MIDI Primarily used for video clips, very effective compression algorithm allowing whole music recordings to be transferred - .mp3 is recent standard MPEG Developed for Unix, 8 bit resolution, mono, 8 bit sampling rates AU Developed for Macintosh, 8 or 16 bit resolution, stereo or mono, wide range of sampling rates AIFF, AIF Developed for Windows, 8 or 16 bit resolution, stereo or mono, wide range of sampling rates, requires Microsoft Media Player on system WAV Description Format