Midterm Lessons -Multimedia Software Tools- Flashcards

1
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It is a group of programs from the same company sold in a single package.

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Software Suite

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2
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Enumerate the software for planning and managing multimedia projects.

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Spreadsheet Software Database Software Project Management Software

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It is a software used to develop cost estimates, budgets, and reports.

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Spreadsheet Software

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It is a software used to control and retrieve information used in projects

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Database Software

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5
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It is a software used to coordinate the work of people and tasks to ensure that projects are completed on time.

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Project Management Software

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6
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Multimedia developers often need software for specific tasks. What are these tasks?

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Screen captures File compression File conversion Virus protection Optical character recognition (OCR)

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7
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What are the familiar tools?

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Word Processors Spreadsheets Databases Presentation Tools

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8
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These tools help us work with the important basic elements of your project: its graphics, images, sound, text and moving pictures.

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Elemental Tools

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9
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What are the Elemental Tools?

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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 Helpful Accessories

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10
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These 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.

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Painting and Drawing Tools

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11
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Software dedicated to producing excellent bitmapped images .

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Painting Software

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12
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Software dedicated to producing line art that is easily printed to paper. Drawing packages include powerful and expensive computer-aided design (CAD) software.

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Drawing Software

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13
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It is the software used by architects, engineers, drafters, artists and others to create precision drawings or technical illustrations. It can be used to create two-dimensional (2-D) drawings or three dimensional modules

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CAD or Computer-Aided Design

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14
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It is specialized and powerful tools for enhancing and retouching existing bitmapped images.

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Image Editing Applications

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15
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What does OCR mean and do?

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Optical Character Recognition - used for acquiring texts from a white-background image or other single-colored images.

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16
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Tools for both digitized and MIDI sound let you see music as well as hear it.

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Sound Editing Tools

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17
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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.

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Animations and Digital Movies

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18
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Tools that 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.

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Movie-Making Tools

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19
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These are indispensable utilities to perform some odd, but repeated tasks

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Accessories

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20
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A tool for grabbing all or part of the screen display so you can import it into your authoring system or copy it into an image editing application.

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Screen-Grabber

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21
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What are the music sequencing and notation programs?

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Cakewalk Cubase Macromedia Soundedit

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22
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It is a very powerful and popular digital audio toolkit; emulates a professional audio studio — multitrack productions and sound file editing including digital signal processing effects.

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CoolEdit

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23
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It is a sophisticated PC-based program for editing audio WAV files.

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Sound Forge

24
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It is a high-end integrated audio production and editing environment — MIDI creation and manipulation; powerful audio mixing, recording, and editing software.

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Pro Tools

25
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What are the Graphics and Image Editing software?

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Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop Macromedia Fireworks Macromedia Freehand

26
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A powerful publishing tool from Adobe. Uses vector graphics; graphics can be exported to Web.

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Adobe Illustrator

27
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The standard in a graphics, image processing and manipulation tool.

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Adobe Photoshop

28
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Permits creation of sophisticated lighting-effects filters.

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Filter Factory

29
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A software for making graphics specifically for the web.

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Macromedia Fireworks

30
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A text and web graphics editing tool that supports many bitmap formats such as GIF, PNG, and JPEG.

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Macromedia Freehand

31
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Enumerate the Video Editing software.

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Adobe Premiere Adobe After Effects Final Cut Pro

32
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An intuitive, simple video editing tool for nonlinear editing, i.e., putting video clips into any order.

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Adobe Premiere

33
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A powerful video editing tool that enables users to add and change existing movies. Can add many effects: lighting, shadows, motion blurring; layers.

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Adobe After Effects

34
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A video editing tool by Apple; Macintosh only.

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Final Cute Pro

35
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Enumerate the provided APIs for Animation.

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Java3D DirectX OpenGL

36
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API used by Java to construct and render 3D graphics, similar to the way in which the Java Media Framework is used for handling media files.

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Java3D

37
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Windows API that supports video, images, audio and 3-D animation.

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DirectX

38
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The highly portable, most popular 3-D API.

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OpenGL

39
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Enumerate the Rendering Tools provided for Animation.

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3D Studio Max Softimage XSI Maya RenderMan

40
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A simpler approach to animation, allows very quick development of effective small animations for the web.

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GIF Animation Packages

41
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Programs that link graphics, text, and other objects.

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Authoring Programs

42
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What are Authoring Programs used for?

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Interactive Tutorials Simulations Games

43
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What are the types of Authoring Tools?

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Card / Page-based Tools Icon-based Tools Time-based Tools

44
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It is a program that helps you write multimedia applications.

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Multimedia Authoring Tool

45
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In these authoring systems, elements are organized as pages of a book or stack of cards.

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Card- or Page-based Tools

46
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Tools that provide a visual programming approach to organizing and presenting multimedia.

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Icon-based Tools

47
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These are the most common of multimedia authoring tools. In these authoring systems, elements are organized along a time line.

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Time-based Authoring Tools

48
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Enumerate the provided Multimedia Authoring software.

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Macromedia Flash Macromedia Director Authorware Quest

49
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A multimedia authoring software that allows users to create interactive movies by using the score metaphor, i.e., a timeline arranged in parallel event sequences.

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Macromedia Flash

50
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A multimedia authoring software that uses a movie metaphor to create interactive presentations — very powerful and includes a built-in scripting language.

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Macromedia Director

51
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It is a built-in scripting language that allows creation of complex interactive movies.

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Lingo

52
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It is a a mature, well-supported authoring product based on the Iconic/Flow-control metaphor.

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Authorware

53
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A multimedia authoring software that is similar to Authorware in many ways, uses a type of flow charting metaphor.

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Quest

54
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Enumerate the provided Open-Source Multimedia Authoring tools.

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Virtual Dub Audacity KompoZer

55
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It is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms, licensed under the GNU GPL.

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Virtual Dub

56
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It is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems.

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Audacity

57
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It is a complete web authoring system that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG web page editing. Designed to be extremely easy to use.

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KompoZer