Maximizing Multimedia Potential: Tools and Techniques for Effective Design
Explore various multimedia elements such as animations, sound files, and video files, along with tools like Adobe Photoshop and Macromedia Flash. Learn about audio streaming and video-editing software for optimal user engagement. Discover how to create engaging multimedia content while keeping the audience in mind.
Maximizing Multimedia Potential: Tools and Techniques for Effective Design
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Chapter 5 – Multimedia Elements Standard Types of Multimedia Files • Animation Files • Sound Files • Video Files • Databases
Animations • Do you really need them?- Remember they are distracting to the user, (design for the expected audience) • Adobe Photoshop – simple ones, save a series of .gif files • Macromedia Flash – designed for creating large graphics animations, .swf files • 3-D rendering programs – very technical, requires an expert user
Sound Elements • Tools for editing sounds- Macromedia SoundEdit- RecordSound- SoundForge- CoolEdit • After editing a sound file, must choose acompression method and a codec (the algorithm) used to compress the sound file
Sound Files • Audio StreamingThe file never downloads to the user but plays immediately as it arrives. Audio streaming transmits a constant, real-time stream of sound to the user and also lets you use much larger files. Requires a special server on the sender’s side, and a plug-in on the receiver’s side.RealAudio, QuickTime Streaming, & Windows Media are examples of Audio Streaming Software.
Video • RealVideo - .ram files – Any application, wide range of quality settings • QuickTime Movie - .mov files – Any application, wider range of quality settings • Windows Media - .asf files – Any application, wide range of quality settings Video-editing software – Adobe Premiere,iMovie, Final Cut Pro, Media Cleaner Pro