Multimedia

Multimedia Multimedia is the combination of two or more media performing at the same time where the media can be text, graphics, audio, anim...

Multimedia

Multimedia is the combination of two or more media performing at the same time where the media can be text, graphics, audio, animation, video, and data. Multimedia simply can be defined as the integration of many media together.

Components of Multimedia

1. Text

Text includes alphabets, numbers and symbols. It can be word, line of statement or paragraph. It is the most widely used component for presenting information.

2. Graphics

Graphics or image is the collection of pixels. Image represents picture capture from the real world whereas graphics represents picture developed by using graphical objects. A graphics can express the idea or information in an easier way than the text.

3. Audio,/b>

An audio is the sound which is audible to human ear. Different types of audio used in multimedia are: human voice, instrumental notes, natural sound. It is one of the important component. Video also includes audio.

4. Video,/b>

Video is the continuous frame of static picture. Generally, when 20-25 frames are displayed per second then it looks like smooth running video. Video is the collection of large number of images along with audio.

5. Animation,/b>

An animation is the sequence of steam images displayed in a rapid succession to provide visual effects. It is the displaying of images in a sequence. It is commonly used in cartoons, movies, video games and video.

Application of Multimedia

1. Education

Multimedia is used to instruct as a teacher because nowadays multimedia CD are used instead of books. Knowledge can be easily obtained by using multimedia in computer because multimedia includes text, pictures, sound and animation which helps the students to understand more easily and clearly than text books.

2. Entertainment

Actually, the first application of multimedia was in the field of entertainment and that too in the videogame industry. Text, audio, images and animations are mostly used in computer games. It also used in movies for entertainment.

3. Business,/b>

Multimedia is used in business for training employees using projectors, presenting sales, educating customers etc. It helps for the promotion of business and new products.

4. Communication

Communication plays a vital role in our life for transferring information. For eg: chatting in the previous days was just simply the text now chatting can be done with the full use of multimedia like video chatting and audio chatting.

5. Software

Software engineers may use multimedia in computer from entertainment to designing digital games, it can be used as a learning process. This multimedia softwares are created by professionals and software engineers.

Advantages of Multimedia

1. It increases learning effectiveness.

2. It is more appealing over traditional lecture-based learning methods.

3. It reduces training costs.

4. It is easy to use.

5. It provides high-quality video images and audio.

Disadvantages of Multimedia

1. It is expensive.

2. It is not always easy to configure.

3. It requires special hardware.

4. It is not always compatible.

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