Multimedia involves combining multiple media formats such as text, audio, images, video and interactivity. It is defined as multiple forms of media integrated together. The basic elements of multimedia include text, graphics, animation, video and audio. Multimedia requires minimum hardware such as a processor, RAM, hard disk, display and drive, and software to combine these different media types. It has various applications in business, marketing, entertainment, education and other fields.

1. Multimedia

2. MULTIMEDIA DEFINITION
• Multimedia is a broad term for combining multiple media formats. Whenever
text, audio, still images, animation, video and interactivity are combined
together, the result is multimedia.
• Multimedia is simply multiple forms of media integrated together.
• Multimedia is a media that uses multiple form of information content and
information processing.

3. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS OF MULTIMEDIA
1. A 486 or a higher processor.
2. 64 MB RAM
3. 10 GB Hard disk
4. SVGA Display Monitor
5. CD/DVD Drive
6. Sound card and Micro phone
7. Keyboard , Mouse
8. Multimedia Software.

4. BASIC ELEMENTS OF MULTIMEDIA
• Text
• Graphics
• Animation
• Video
• Audio

5. TEXT
Characters that are used to create words, sentences, and paragraphs.
Text is also called as hypertext. The term was first introduced by Ted Nelson in 1963.
Hypertext was brought to the general public in the form of the Internet and especially the
world wide web.
Hypertext is a important part of multimedia.

6. GRAPHICS
• It is a digital representation of non-text information, such as a drawing, chart, or photograph.
• Graphics are visual Images on some surface such as a wall, screen, paper (or) entertain.
Types of Graphics files
.BMP(BitMap)
.GIF(Graphics Interchange Format)
.PNG(Portable Network Graphics)
.JPEG(Joint Photographic Expert Group)
• There are two types of Graphics:
Bitmap images- Bitmap images are real images that can be captured from devices such as
digital cameras or scanners. Generally bitmap images are not editable. Bitmap images require a
large amount of memory.
Vector Graphics- Vector graphics are drawn on the computer and only require a small
amount of memory. These graphics are editable.

7. ANIMATION
• Animation is the process of making films in which drawings or puppets appear to move.
• An animation is a film in which drawings or puppets appear to move.
• Animation tool is the process of tweening.
• Tweening is where the computer ptogram takes two images and generates in-between
images of the content morphing from the state of the first image to the state of the second.
Types of Animation
• 3D.
• Hand Drawn.
• Vector.
• Stop Motion.
• Motion Graphics.

8. VIDEO
-Video is an electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback,
broadcasting, and display of moving visual media.
-Refers to displaying images and text on a computer monitor.
-The advent of digital video has ensured that it’s now even easier for people
to manipulate recorded video on the computer.
Types of Video Files
 MPEG(Motion Picture Expert Group)
-MPEG -1
-MPEG-2
-MPEG-4
 Quicktime
 AVI

9. AUDIO
• Audio is a term used to describe any sound or noise that is within a range the human ear is
capable of hearing.
• 2 Main uses are
- Recording/playing back audio
- Sequencing Music
• Audio editing software records incoming audios, edits it and applies effects to it.
Types of Audio files.
.WAV,
.MP3(Mpeg Layer 3) ,ogg vorbis & etc.

10. FUNCTIONS OF MULTIMEDIA
• It can generate huge text matters.
• It regenerates the sounds of audio system.
• It replays the recorded sound.
• It displays picture & video.
• Information stored on CD/DVD can be retrieved.

11. APPLICATIONS OF MULTIMEDIA
• Multimedia in Business
• Multimedia in Marketing and Advertising
• Multimedia in Entertainment
• Multimedia in Education
• Multimedia in Banks.
• Multimedia in Hospitals.
• Multimedia Pedagogues(in teaching)

12. ANIMATIONVIDEO
• MultimediaVideo