Category Archives: 3. Multimedia

3. Multimedia, Computing Higher

Multimedia Introduction

We started off looking at WYSIWYG, Text editors, Presentation and Authoring software.

There was a lot to get through in one period but we managed to cover the multimedia development cycle (ADITDEM) before getting started on some practical.

The practical looked at a piece of wireframe software called Moqups and Icon based multimedia package Kodu.

Remember for this unit you will want to use the Scholar website after class to go back over the lesson, or you could use it before class so you can ask better question.

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3. Multimedia, Computing Higher

Multimedia Content

You will have noticed that I have started to post multimedia FAQs, these are pre planned posts and will activate over the next few weeks. This may mean you have to look back a page or two to catch posts you missed. Remember Twitter is your friend, if you follow @CHSPTICM twitter will notify you about all new posts.

Here is a list of the content we will be covering in the next few weeks, you can find the text of this in the pages above.

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3. Multimedia, Computing Higher

FAQ – Description of the methodologies and requirements for the display of a multimedia application, including streaming of multimedia data and embedded files

Description of the methodologies and requirements for the display of a multimedia application, including streaming of multimedia data and embedded files

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FAQ – Description of methodologies used in the creation or definition of a multimedia application

Description of methodologies used in the creation or definition of a multimedia application, including:

o WYSIWYG editors and text editors to create web pages

o authoring software to create multimedia applications

o presentation software to create presentations

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1. Computer Systems, 3. Multimedia, Computing Higher, Revision

A couple of questions from today

Jonathan asked me a couple of very good questions today and I thought I would share my answers.

What is the difference between a linear CCD and a Array CCD?

  • A linear CCD is used in scanners and consists of a row of CCDs that moves down the document.
  • A CCD array is used in digital cameras and consists of a grid of CCDs as shown in this picture

Is it just CCDs that are used in digital cameras.

  • Some cameras use cheaper CMOS sensors, these sensors are not as fast and do not produce the same quality as a CCD. Wikipedia has this to say.

What does WRL stand for

  • This has taken a fair bit of research and the answer was on the blog the whole time… “World Description Language”. Personally I take the view of a lot of the websites WRL is the file suffix for VRML files and stands for WoRLd.

So with all this on the blog I updated the Multimedia Glossary, after all what else did I have to do.