Multimedia Software

Question 1

What are the advantages of Multimedia Software?

Answer 1

• Works on most computers
• Special effects increase audience interest
• Can be saved on memory stick or disc so easy portability

Question 2

What are the disadvantages of Multimedia Software?

Answer 2

• Relies on a computer
• Someone must be trained
• Expensive equipment
• Unreliable computers

Question 3

What are the techniques for storing Text?

Answer 3

• Generally stored as .doc or .docx
• Can be stored as .txt
• Saved using American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) - Each character is changed into a number.

Question 4

What are the techniques for storing Images?

Answer 4

• Saved as .bmp where each pixel is recorded

- Good quality images have large files so need to be compressed into .jpg or .gif

Question 5

What are the techniques for storing Sound?

Answer 5

• Can be stored as analogue
• The sound waves can be digitised into .wav
• Compressed sound files such as .mp3 are used as they take up less space

Question 6

What are the advantages of storing compressed multimedia files?

Answer 6

• Less storage space is used so more data can be recorded
• Files are smaller so transmission time over the internet will be quicker
• Files are standardised

Question 7

What are the disadvantages of storing compressed multimedia files?

Answer 7

• Quality and detail could me lost

- Not always possible to decompress a compressed file

Question 8

Multimedia is being used in…

Answer 8

• Education
• Entertainment
• Business
• Society

Question 9

Multimedia is being used in Education to produce…

Answer 9

• Computer based training courses
• Automatic displays in foyers
• Student course work
• Interactive quizzes and quistoniares

Question 10

Multimedia is being used in Entertainment…

Answer 10

• Interactive computer games
• Creating home movies
• Slide presentations at special occasions
• Listen to music while watching videos
• to create art

Question 11

Multimedia is being used in Business…

Answer 11

• To make presentations introduced products
• Communicate new ideas at conferences
• Advertisements on television

Question 12

Multimedia is being used in Society…

Answer 12

• television, radio etc. to communicate
• Live news is reported around the world
• Mobile phones are evoke to keep us in touch

Question 13

What are the techniques for storing Video?

Answer 13

• Video consist of many frames

- Compressed video files such as .mp4