Chapter 2

1. multimedia skills

1.1. Project Manager

1.2. Multimedia Designer

1.3. Interface Designer

1.4. Writer

1.5. Audio/Video Specialist

1.6. Multimedia Programmer

2. authoring systems

2.1. types:

2.1.1. card based

2.1.2. icon based

2.1.3. time based

2.2. authoring tools treat multimedia elements as objects.

3. development process

3.1. planning

3.2. designing

3.3. testing

3.3.1. alpha

3.3.1.1. performed by users within org.

3.3.2. beta

3.3.2.1. to find bugs & content errors.

3.4. delivering

4. hardware

4.1. connections

4.1.1. Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE)

4.1.2. Universal Serial Bus (USB)

4.1.3. FireWire (IEEE 1394)

4.2. memory & storage device

4.2.1. Flash or thumb drives

4.2.2. CD-ROM

4.2.3. DVD

4.2.4. Blu-ray discs

4.3. input devices

4.4. output devices

5. software

5.1. OCR software

5.2. tools:

5.2.1. drawing

5.2.2. painting

5.2.3. 3-D

5.2.4. image-editing

5.2.5. sound-editing

5.2.6. animation, video, digital movie