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Multimedia Systems

notes A team of ten Russian scientists, headed by Yury Alexandrovich Bukhshtab of the Keldysh
Institute of Applied Mathematics and J. Johnson of Arkmedia, plans to develop a pilot version
of this Web-based toolset and deploy it on Russian Archives Online. The technology will be
distributed to end-users globally for free, relying on sponsors and media object licensing
commission fees to generate revenue. The project is currently in development with plans for
completion in early 2007.
Questions:
1. Explain the uses of multimedia technology.

2. Give the year of developing Arkmedia project.

self assessment
Choose the correct answer:

4. A ............................ file is basically a list of commands to produce the sound.
(a) NTSC (b) SECAM
(c) ISDB (d) MIDI
5. .................. is distributed free of charge, and includes the QuickTime Player application.

(a) QuickTime players (b) QuickTime framework
(c) QuickTime (d) QuickTime file format
6. ...................................... use a sequence of frames in a specified order.
(a) Video formats (b) QuickTime

(c) QuickTime players (d) MIDI
7. Painting software ................................. is dedicated to producing crafted bitmap images.

(a) CorelDraw (b) FreeHand
(c) Photoshop (d) Canvas
8. Drawing software ....................... is dedicated to producing vector-based line art easily printed
to paper at high resolution.
(a) Fireworks (b) Painter
(c) Photoshop (d) Canvas

13.8 summary

• A word processor is first software tool computer users rely upon for creating text. The word
processor is often bundled with an office suite.
• Image-editing application is specialized and powerful tools for enhancing and retouching
existing bitmapped images.
• Painting and drawing tools, as well as 3D modelers, are perhaps the most important items
in the toolkit because, of all the multimedia elements, the graphical impact of the project
will likely have the greatest influence on the end user.
• Sound editing tools for both digitized and MIDI sound let’s hear music as well as create it.
• Musical Instrument Digitization Interface provides a protocol or a set of rules, using which
the musical note is directly recorded into the computer from musical instruments.

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