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Multimedia Software

This document discusses various types of software tools used for editing documents, images, audio, video, and 3D modeling. It describes word processors for editing text, optical character recognition software for converting images to text, painting and drawing tools for image editing, 3D modeling software for creating 3D objects, audio editing tools, and video editing software.

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Multimedia Software

This document discusses various types of software tools used for editing documents, images, audio, video, and 3D modeling. It describes word processors for editing text, optical character recognition software for converting images to text, painting and drawing tools for image editing, 3D modeling software for creating 3D objects, audio editing tools, and video editing software.

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 Text Editing and Word Processing Tools

 OCR Software
 Painting and Drawing tools
 3-D Modeling and Animation Tools
 Image-Editing Tools
 Sound Editing Tools
 Animation, Video and Digital Movie Tools
 Word processor such as Microsoft Word and
WordPerfect are powerful applications with
spellcheckers, table formatters,
thesauruses, and prebuilt templates
 Embed multimedia elements to get more

attractive and powerful application


 Turns bitmapped characters into electronically
recognizable ASCII text.
 Scanner is used to create images. OCR software
breaks the scanned image into chunks according to
text or graphics content, by examining the texture
and density of areas of the bitmap and by detecting
edges.
 Text are converted to ASCII characters using
probability and expert system algorithms.
 Such as Photoshop, Fireworks and Painter are
dedicated to produce crafted several type of images
 Drawing tools such as CorelDraw, FreeHand,
Illustrator, Designer and Canvas are dedicated to
produce vector based line art
-An GUI with pull-down menus status bars, palette
control and dialog boxes for quick, logical selection
-Scalable dimensions features to resize, stretch
and distort images
 Paint tools to create geometric shapes
 Ability to pour a color, pattern or gradient
 Customizable pen and brush shapes and sizes
 Ability to paint with patterns and clip art
 Tool to sample color
 Autotrace tool to turn bitmap shapes into vector-based
outlines
 Support for scalable text fonts and drop shadows
 Multiple undo capabilities, to let you try again
 History function for redoing effects, drawing, and text
 Property inspector
 Screen capture facility
 Painting features such as smoothing, airbrushing, washing
colors blending and masking
 Support for special effect plug-ins
 Object and layering capabilities
 Zooming to magnify pixel editing
 Color and grayscale image depths
 Color management and dithering capability

among color depths using various color


models such as RGB,HSB, and CMYK
 File importing and exporting capability for

image formats
 3-D modeling software makes object
rendered in perspective appear more
realistic
 Some powerful 3-d modeling packages are

AutoDesk’s Discreet, Strata Vision’s 3D,


Specular’s LogoMotion and Infini-D etc.
 Support’s export features enabling to save

a moving view as QuickTime or AVI


animation file
 Multiple windows to view model in each
dimension ,from the camera perspective and in a
rendered view
 Drag and drop
 Ability to create and sculpt organic objects from
scratch
 Lathe and extrude features
 Realistic effects such as transparency, shadowing,
and fog
 Ability to add spot, local and global lights to place
them and manipulate for lighting effects
 Unlimited cameras with focal length control
 Ability to draw spline-based paths for animation
Tools for enhancing and retouching existing images.
 Supports multiple windows
 Conversion feature for image–data types and
industry standard file formats
 Direct input of images from scanner and video
sources
 Employment of a virtual memory scheme
 Selection tools –rectangles, magic wand etc
 Image and balance controls
 Filters for special effects such as crystallize, dry
brush etc
 Support for special effect plug-ins
 Ability to design in layers that can be combined,
hidden and reordered
 To warp, twist, shadow cut ,diffuse and filter
the image for visual effects
 HotTEXT- turns text into 3-D objects
 EasyCandy offers set of filters
 Corel to make fractal images
 By drawing a representation of a sound in
fine increments, whether a score or a
waveform.
 To make sound effects and install as system

beeps
 Sequences of bitmapped graphic scenes,
rapidly played back
 Video formats- to store and play digitized

video available with QuickTime and AVI.


 Algorithms to control the amount of
information per video frame that is sent to
screen, which rate new frames should be
displayed
 Integrates sound, text animation and video
 Used as a plug-in for IE and Netscape
 Three elements make up QuickTime:

- QuickTime movie file format


- QuickTime Media Abstraction Layer
- QuickTime media services
 Audio-Video Interleaved (AVI), to display
Audio and Video sequences
 Video is interleaved with audio data within

the file that contains the motion sequence


 Features - playback from hard disk

- playback with limited memory


- quick loading
- video compression

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