Lesson 1: What is Multimedia?

Definitions of Multimedia

Webopedia provides this definition for multimedia: The use of computers to present text, graphics, video, animation, and sound in an integrated way. Long touted as the future revolution in computing, multimedia applications were, until the mid-90s, uncommon due to the expensive hardware required. With increases in performance and decreases in price, however, multimedia is now commonplace. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/m/multimedia.html

Other sources for definitions

Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia
Scala - http://www.scala.com/multimedia/multimedia-definition.html
Dictionary.com - http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/multimedia

Applications for multimedia

The tutorials in this course use the following products.

• Editing Photographs – Adobe Photoshop Elements
• Editing Video – Adobe Premiere Elements

Other applications

The following companies develop applications for the production of multimedia, including editing of graphics, photographs, video and sound.

Adobe - http://www.adobe.com/
Corel - http://www.corel.com/
Pinnacle - http://www.pinnaclesys.com/
Ulead – http://www.ulead.com/ 
Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Sony - http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/default.asp