1. Presentation and Multimedia
Chapter 7

2. What is Multimedia?
Multimedia is the presentation of information by a computer system using:
Graphics
Animation
Sound
Text

3. Presentation Packages
An application package that is used to produce multimedia presentations and displays
Allows the user to create a series of slides which can contain presentation elements such as text, graphics, sound and video
When slides are displayed one after the other this is called linear linkage

4. Presentation Elements
Text
Entered at keyboard
Imported from a Word Processing Package
Graphics
Clip Art
Imported from a Graphics Package
Audio
Imported from a Sound Library
Input via Microphone
Video
Imported from digital video camera

5. Digital Video
Digital video takes up a large quantity of backing storage space
1 hour = 13Gb
Non-linear editing is where clips may be arranged in any order, not just the order in which they were filmed