Research Assignment in INtro to Multimedia Arts

The use of multimedia today has expanded all the boundaries. The things that were impossible to do 

The multimedia software can be found in the various fields of creative industries, entertainment, medicine, business, and the list goes on.

These are the trends in multimedia software:

Picasa is excellent multimedia-related software for the viewing, organizing, and editing of pictures on your laptop. While providing all these services, one other service provided by this software is that you can create an album of your own digital pictures and share them with your loved ones. Originally created by the Lifescape Company, Google, later on, bought it and hence was provided for free. The software of Picasa was originally devised for Windows XP, Vista, 7, and Mac OS X only. But later on, Google teamed up with Wine to make the software available for Linux as well. However, the Linux versions of the software of so out of date that they might not include many of the multimedia software’s special features.

The VLC media player, as the name suggests, is the platform where you can play your videos and audios for free.  by a company named VideoLAN project.

Windows movie maker is the software for people who love to edit their videos. The Microsoft Company developed this under the name of Sundance. Being a part of windows’ essential multimedia software, this software helps make and edit the video and allows you to publish those videos on OneDrive, Facebook, and YouTube, etc.

The adobe systems developed adobe Photoshop for the raster graphics editing designed for the windows system and the Mac OS. The software has created a niche for itself in the editing world. The word Photoshop has created a place for itself and is now even used as a verb many times. It is one of its kind software and is able to edit raster images using multiple layers. The multimedia software supports various graphics file formats and has its own file format under the name of PSB and PSD, and supports all the features mentioned above. Although Photoshop itself supports many features besides the raster graphics such as vector graphics, 3D graphics, and video, if the editor wants, he can expand the purview of the software’s features by installing the Photoshop plug-ins.

Inkscape is software so as to be able to create as well as edit vector images including illustrations, logos, complex paintings, diagrams etc. one unique feature about Inkscape is that while it can support the images of various formats but the work of editing the images occur under the graphics format od Scalable Vector Graphics or better known as SVG.

And These are the trends in multimedia hardware:

CPU-In a Multimedia Computer, a pentium processor is preferred because of its high efficiency.

Video Grabbing Card-We need to convert the analog video signal to a digital signal for processing the computer. the normal computer will not be able to do it alone.

Sound Card-It can be used for recognition of speech and synthesis.

CD-ROM (compact disc read-only memory) is a pre-pressed optical compact disc that contains computer data storage data. 

Monitor-Generally it displays 25 rows and 80 columns of text.