MULTIMEDIA – Rudra

MULTIMEDIA

What is multimedia ?

The word multi and media are combined to form the word multimedia. The word “multi” signifies “many.” Multimedia is a type of medium that allows information to be easily transferred from one location to another. Multimedia is the presentation of text, pictures, audio, and video with links and tools that allow the user to navigate, engage, create, and communicate using a computer. Multimedia refers to the computer-assisted integration of text, drawings, still and moving images(videos) graphics, audio, animation, and any other media in which any type of information can be expressed, stored, communicated, and processed digitally. Multimedia is being employed in a variety of disciplines, including education, training, and business.

What are the applications of multimedia ?

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EDUCATION

In the subject of education, multimedia is becoming increasingly popular. It is often used to produce study materials for pupils and to ensure that they have a thorough comprehension of various disciplines. Edutainment, which combines education and entertainment, has become highly popular in recent years. This system gives learning in the form of enjoyment to the user.

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Business

Marketing, advertising, product demos, presentation, training, networked communication, etc. are applications of multimedia that are helpful in many businesses. The audience can quickly understand an idea when multimedia presentations are used. It gives a simple and effective technique to attract visitors’ attention and effectively conveys information about numerous products. It’s also utilized to encourage clients to buy things in business marketing.

What are the components of multimedia ?

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Dreamweaver

Adobe Dreamweaver is a software program for designing websites, which is more featured as compared to HTML web and programming editor. It was originally developed and published by Macromedia in 1997. Adobe took over Macromedia in 2005 and continued the development in the software and it’s still going on. Dreamweaver is a visual web page editor that allows you to create, edit and manage websites and webpages without having to learn HTML. It uses a WYSIWYG environment that allows you to see what your web pages look like as you create them

Features of Dreamweaver:

Some of the features of Dreamweaver are as follows :

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Dreamweaver supports multiple web and programming languages including HTML, JSP, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Active Server Pages (ASP), PHP, Extensible Markup language (XML), and many more.

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Dreamweaver is working on both types of operating systems like MAC OS and Windows.

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Dreamweaver includes very powerful features to help web developers manage all the related files for a site, post those files to a remote web server, and keep the local files and the files on the remote server synchronized.

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Dreamweaver includes very Dreamweaver facilities a rich set of features in a single program capable f handling the most advanced web design and development projects for example: from a simple home page to a large complex project.

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Dreamweaver provides you with coding assistance.

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Adobe Flash

Flash is a popular authoring tool that allows users to create animated works and flash file may be saved as .FLV files. It was firstly released by Macromedia in 1996, which create vector graphics-based animation programs. Adobe Flash is a multimedia software platform used in designing animations, interactive content and web applications. It became a widely adopted solution in the powering of online games and interactive features on websites. However, as of the end of 2020 , Adobe officially stopped supporting Flash and it is not used anymore because security reasons. Primary Adobe Flash was a multimedia software platform at its core, which enabled developers and designers to create interactive content. Flash enabled creating animations, games and interactive websites and dynamic web applications using vector graphics through a scripting language called ActionScript. Its versatility and ease of use soon made it a standard tool for web developers and an iconic feature in the early internet days.

Features of Flash:

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Flash was a tool that gained much popularity for making interactive and animated content on websites from games to banners and menu bars.

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Flash technology was used to create RIAs that simulated desktop-level user experience in a web browser. These encompassed applications for e-learning, web presentations and collaborative tools.

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Flash was very popular for creating interactive and attractive online advertising

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Flash is a widely used platform for video delivery over the internet, especially before broad use of HTML5 videos.

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HTML

HTML, or HyperText Markup Language is the standard markup language used to create web pages. It is a combination of Hypertext, and Markup language. The Hypertext defines the link between web pages, and Markup is used to define the text document within tags to structure the web pages. This language is used to annotate text so that machines can understand and manipulate it accordingly. HTML is human-readable and uses tags to define what manipulation has to be done on the text.

Features of HTML:

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It is easy to learn and easy to use.

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It is platform-independent.

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Images, videos, and audio can be added to a web page.

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Hypertext can be added to the text.

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It is a markup language

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After Effects

After Effects is a motion graphic and visual effect tool which was developed by CoSA, Aldus Corporation and Adobe incorporation. Initially, it was released in 1993 and its stable version was released in 2022. It provides a large number of features for visual effects like composting, tracking, keying and animation also. It was built using C and C++ programming languages.

Features of After Effects:

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It is good for creating 2D animation, 3D elements, motion graphics, stop motion animation, etc.

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It has a chroma key cutting feature for changing backgrounds easily.

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It has lots of options for text animation.

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It allows adding motions to images so to give animation effects.

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3D Studio Max

3Ds Max is a computer graphics software tool which is used in the animations and the visual effects industry. The development credit for this software goes to Autodesk. It was initially released in 1996 and the stable release was in 2021. It is capable of running on Windows 7 and later versions of Windows.

Features of 3D Studio Max:

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Create detailed designs and props with intuitive texturing and shading tools.

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Automatically reconstruct polygonal mesh data into clean, quad-based topology.

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Allows for a partial cut-through on an Editable Poly object.

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The spline system in 3ds Max is highly customizable, making it a good choice for projects with a clear creative vision.