PARTⅢAPPLICATIONSCHAPTER13MULTIMEDIA13.3BASICTOOLSCHAPTER13-3
13.3BASICTOOLSMAINPOINTMainpoint:Abriefintroductionofmultimedia.Theapplicationareasofmultimedia.Thebasictoolsofmultimediaproduction.Digitalaudio.Digitalvideo.
Text1Question1:Whatarebasicelementsofmultimediaproject?Thebasictoolsetforbuildingmultimediaprojectscontainsoneormoreauthoringsystemsandvariouseditingapplicationsfortext,images,sounds,andmotionvideo.Afewadditionalapplicationsarealsousefulforcapturingimagesfromthescreen,translatingfileformats,andmovingfilesamongcomputerswhenyouarepartofateam—thesearetoolsforthehousekeepingtasksthatmakeyourcreativeandproductionlifeeasier.
Text21.TextEditingandWordProcessingToolsAwordprocessorisusuallythefirstsoftwaretoolcomputeruserslearn.Fromletters,invoices,andstoryboardstoprojectcontent,yourwordprocessormayalsobeyourmostoftenusedtool,asyoudesignandbuildamultimediaproject.Thebetteryourkeyboardingortypingskills,theeasierandmoreefficientwillbeyourmultimediaday-to-daylife.WordprocessorssuchasWordandWordPerfectarepowerfulapplicationsthatincludespellcheckers,tableformatters,thesauruses,andpre-builttemplatesforletters,resumes,purchaseorders,andothercommondocuments.
Text3Question2:Tellussomewordprocessorswhichyoufamiliar?Inmanywordprocessors,youcanactuallyembedmultimediaelementssuchassounds,images,andvideo.2.OCRSoftwareOftenyouwillhaveprintedmatterandothertexttoincorporateintoyourproject,butnoelectronictextfile.Withopticalcharacterrecognition(OCR)software,aflat-bedscanner,andyourcomputer,youcansavemanyhoursorrekeyingprintedwords,andgetthejobdonefasterandmoreaccuratelythanaroomfuloftypists.
Text4OCRsoftwareturnsbitmappedcharactersintoelectronicallyrecognizableASCIItext.