Multimedia Technology

Notes from on line Voice over Power Point

Getting Started with Multimedia

Your place in the field. Author focuses on the multimedia companies and not that it will be everywhere.
Your job is to learn learn learn.
What path should you take... Deal with the dilemma... forget about it, get training and then decide what you are going to do
Hardware..

The more the better
Monitor
memory
etc.
Need Cd/DVD
Sound 16 Bit/Soundblaster (they created it)
Color Printer
High speed modem
Large capacity storage
Nice to have
Digitizing table
flatbed scanner
digital camera
video capture card/video printing card
good quality microphone
VCR compatible with video capture card.
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Software
Graphic Design photo editing
Adobe Photoshop
Jac's Paint Shop Pro
Corel's Photo-paint
3D modeling and animations Apps
Caligrais's TrueSpace
Metacretions Ray Dream Studio
Light wave 3 D New Teck
Inspire 3D

Morphing
Kai's Supergoo
Gryphone Software Morph
Ulead/Softkey Morph Studio


Digitial SOund editing
SOnic Foundry Sound Forge
Macromedia Sound Edit 16

Digital Editing
Adobe Premier
Ulead Video Studio Pro
Lumiere

Authoring Software
Macro Director
Macro Authoware
Multimedia Fusion
Astound
Asymetrix Tool Box

Web Authoring
Dreamweaver
netscape Composer
Corel Web Designer
Front Page

Other Nice software
Batch file converter
Web animation software
web specific graphic tools.
Quick prototype presentations (Power point)
collections of stock images, sounds, photos, etc.

In hardware
scanners are a case where bigger is not better
you will pay a lot more money for large DPI scanners but will not give you better performance for what you need for work
Digital camera better is bigger
Talking head camera is OK in $25 range.

Video Capture Card
Full screen
write to vcr

HD space more better
zip/jaz drives burnable CD are all necessary

See page 52 to see absolute system
Mac or PC
You dance with the gal that brought you to the dance.
Use what you have

Multimedia Production cycle
project planning
Who are you trying to reach with how much and what.
story boarding
Conceptualize what you want to do
media components
What are you going to use and how are you going to do it.
Pre-post and production

testing and delivery.
test the product before you delivery

Delivery system
Floppy 1.44 M to small
HD> 20 to 80 GB
CD 650 MB
DVD 14000 MB
Internet Infinite.
Greatest technical advance since invention of the computer itself
Internet is to now what Guttenberg printing press was to 1550

Work in Industry
CD Promos
Web Developments
Ad agencies
A MM company