What is multimedia?

Different people often have quite different viewpoints.

• PC vendor: a PC with sound capability, a DVD-ROM drive, multimedia-enabled micro-processors that understand additional multimedia instructions
• Consumer entertainment vendor: interactive cable TV with hundreds of digital channel, or cable TV-like service delivered over high-speed Internet connection
• CS student: applications that use multiple modalities including text, images, drawings (graphics), animation, video, sound including speech, and interactivity
• Mm and computer science

Graphics, HCI, visualization, computer vision, data compression, graph theory, networking, database system

Derived from the word “Multi” and “Media”

• Multi
• Many, Multiple,
• Media
• Tools that is used to represent or do a certain things, delivery medium, a form of mass communication – newspaper, magazine / tv.
• Distribution tool & information presentation – text, graphic, voice, images, music and etc.

• Multimedia is a combination of text, graphic, sound, animation, and video that is delivered interactively to the user by electronic or digitally manipulated means.

TEXT

• A broad term for something that contains words to express something. 
• Text is the most basic element of multimedia. 
• A good choice of words could help convey the intended message to the users (keywords). 
• Used in contents, menus, navigational buttons

GRAPHIC

• Two-dimensional figure or illustration 
• Could be produced manually (by drawing, painting, carving, etc.) or by computer graphics technology. 
• Used in multimedia to show more clearly what a particular information is all about (diagrams, picture).

AUDIO

• Produced by vibration, as perceived by the sense of hearing. 
• In multimedia, audio could come in the form of speech, sound effects and also music score.

ANIMATION

• The illusion of motion created by the consecutive display of images of static elements. 
• In multimedia, animation is used to further enhance / enriched the experience of the user to further understand the information conveyed to them.

VIDEO

• Is the technology of capturing, recording, processing, transmitting, and reconstructing moving pictures. 
• Video is more towards photo realistic image sequence / live recording as in comparison to animation. 
• Video also takes a lot of storage space. So plan carefully before you are going to use it.