Multimedia Hardware and Software
by Green Apple
1. Hardware
1.1. Windows vs. Macintosh
1.2. Production Platform
1.3. Connections
1.4. IDE
1.5. USB(Universal Serial Bus)
1.6. Firewire
1.7. Memory and Storage devices
1.8. Memory and storage devices
1.8.1. RAM
1.8.2. ROM
1.8.3. Hard disk
1.9. Input devices
1.10. Output devices
2. Software
2.1. OCR software
2.2. Painting tools -create and modify bitmap images
2.3. Drawing tools- Create and Modify vectors graphics
2.4. 3-D modeling tools allow rendering of objects in a three- dimensional perspective
2.5. Image editing tools
2.6. Sound editing tools
3. Authoring Systems
3.1. Types of authoring tools
3.1.1. Card and page based authoring tools
3.1.2. Icon and object based authoring tools
3.1.3. Time based authoring tools
3.2. Editing and Organizing features
3.3. Programming features
3.4. Interactivity features
3.5. Performance tuning
3.6. Playback features
3.7. Delivery features
3.8. Cross platform
3.9. Playback features
4. Four Basic Stages in a multimedia project
4.1. .Planning and Costing
4.1.1. Define the objectives and scope
4.1.2. Set the contents
4.2. .Designing and Producing
4.2.1. Perform each of the planned tasks to create a finished product
4.3. .Testing
4.3.1. 1.Alpha testing
4.3.2. 2.Beta testing
4.4. .Delivering
4.4.1. Final stage
4.4.2. Package and deliver the project to the end user