Midterm Lessons -Multimedia Software Tools- Flashcards
It is a group of programs from the same company sold in a single package.
Software Suite
Enumerate the software for planning and managing multimedia projects.
Spreadsheet Software Database Software Project Management Software
It is a software used to develop cost estimates, budgets, and reports.
Spreadsheet Software
It is a software used to control and retrieve information used in projects
Database Software
It is a software used to coordinate the work of people and tasks to ensure that projects are completed on time.
Project Management Software
Multimedia developers often need software for specific tasks. What are these tasks?
Screen captures File compression File conversion Virus protection Optical character recognition (OCR)
What are the familiar tools?
Word Processors Spreadsheets Databases Presentation Tools
These tools help us work with the important basic elements of your project: its graphics, images, sound, text and moving pictures.
Elemental Tools
What are the Elemental Tools?
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
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.
Painting and Drawing Tools
Software dedicated to producing excellent bitmapped images .
Painting Software
Software dedicated to producing line art that is easily printed to paper. Drawing packages include powerful and expensive computer-aided design (CAD) software.
Drawing Software
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
CAD or Computer-Aided Design
It is specialized and powerful tools for enhancing and retouching existing bitmapped images.
Image Editing Applications
What does OCR mean and do?
Optical Character Recognition - used for acquiring texts from a white-background image or other single-colored images.
Tools for both digitized and MIDI sound let you see music as well as hear it.
Sound Editing Tools
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.
Animations and Digital Movies
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.
Movie-Making Tools
These are indispensable utilities to perform some odd, but repeated tasks
Accessories
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.
Screen-Grabber
What are the music sequencing and notation programs?
Cakewalk Cubase Macromedia Soundedit
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.
CoolEdit
It is a sophisticated PC-based program for editing audio WAV files.
Sound Forge
It is a high-end integrated audio production and editing environment — MIDI creation and manipulation; powerful audio mixing, recording, and editing software.
Pro Tools
What are the Graphics and Image Editing software?
Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop Macromedia Fireworks Macromedia Freehand
A powerful publishing tool from Adobe. Uses vector graphics; graphics can be exported to Web.
Adobe Illustrator
The standard in a graphics, image processing and manipulation tool.
Adobe Photoshop
Permits creation of sophisticated lighting-effects filters.
Filter Factory
A software for making graphics specifically for the web.
Macromedia Fireworks
A text and web graphics editing tool that supports many bitmap formats such as GIF, PNG, and JPEG.
Macromedia Freehand
Enumerate the Video Editing software.
Adobe Premiere Adobe After Effects Final Cut Pro
An intuitive, simple video editing tool for nonlinear editing, i.e., putting video clips into any order.
Adobe Premiere
A powerful video editing tool that enables users to add and change existing movies. Can add many effects: lighting, shadows, motion blurring; layers.
Adobe After Effects
A video editing tool by Apple; Macintosh only.
Final Cute Pro
Enumerate the provided APIs for Animation.
Java3D DirectX OpenGL
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.
Java3D
Windows API that supports video, images, audio and 3-D animation.
DirectX
The highly portable, most popular 3-D API.
OpenGL
Enumerate the Rendering Tools provided for Animation.
3D Studio Max Softimage XSI Maya RenderMan
A simpler approach to animation, allows very quick development of effective small animations for the web.
GIF Animation Packages
Programs that link graphics, text, and other objects.
Authoring Programs
What are Authoring Programs used for?
Interactive Tutorials Simulations Games
What are the types of Authoring Tools?
Card / Page-based Tools Icon-based Tools Time-based Tools
It is a program that helps you write multimedia applications.
Multimedia Authoring Tool
In these authoring systems, elements are organized as pages of a book or stack of cards.
Card- or Page-based Tools
Tools that provide a visual programming approach to organizing and presenting multimedia.
Icon-based Tools
These are the most common of multimedia authoring tools. In these authoring systems, elements are organized along a time line.
Time-based Authoring Tools
Enumerate the provided Multimedia Authoring software.
Macromedia Flash Macromedia Director Authorware Quest
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.
Macromedia Flash
A multimedia authoring software that uses a movie metaphor to create interactive presentations — very powerful and includes a built-in scripting language.
Macromedia Director
It is a built-in scripting language that allows creation of complex interactive movies.
Lingo
It is a a mature, well-supported authoring product based on the Iconic/Flow-control metaphor.
Authorware
A multimedia authoring software that is similar to Authorware in many ways, uses a type of flow charting metaphor.
Quest
Enumerate the provided Open-Source Multimedia Authoring tools.
Virtual Dub Audacity KompoZer
It is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms, licensed under the GNU GPL.
Virtual Dub
It is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems.
Audacity
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.
KompoZer
