Multimedia Vocabulary terms

1. ACID – application used to record and mix sounds.

2. Adobe Acrobat – the most common portable document application used on the web.

3. Adobe Acrobat readers – plug-in which enables users to save PDF files and view them off line

or directly in the browser window.

4. Adobe Photoshop – image creation and editing program.

5. Adobe Premiere – nonlinear video editing program used to capture, edit and Incorporate video

into multimedia applications.

6. Animated gif – a special kind of GIF file known as a GIF89a used to create animated two-

dimensional and three-dimensional images for web pages.

7. Animation--making an object appear to have movement

8. Applets – small programs that can be shared with other applications and that are developed

for a specific purpose, for example to track stock prices and periodically display them on a web

page.

9. Audience- multimedia title’s users.

10. Audio Clip--a file that contains sound

11. Authoring program – used to create multimedia applications.

12. AVI – Microsoft Corporation’s movie file format.

13. Background--the layer on the screen that seems "farther" from the viewer

14. Bitmap – a grid similar to graph paper from with each small square will be directly mapped

back onto the computer screen as a pixel.

15. BMP – bitmap graphic file format. Often used with photographic images because it can show

subtle gradients in color.

16. Browser – program that provides the front-end interface that translates and displays

downloaded HTML documents and media files and applets that accompany these documents.

17. Button--in hypermedia, an object or feature used to create links between different cards, to

initiate other actions, or to reproduce sound.

18. Camcorder--a hand-held video camera

19. Capture – digitize or convert to a format that is recognizable by a computer.

20. CD – compact disc. Used for data and audio files. CD+R can be written on only. CD+RW can be

used like a floppy disk (save, then resave data multiple times.)

21. CD-ROM--stands for Compact Disk-Read Only Memory. An optical disk that can only be read

from and not written to.

22. Clip art – commercially prepared drawings that come in packages with many application

programs.

23. Compact Disk (CD)--a small, portable, round medium for electronically recording, storing, and

playing back audio, video, text, and other information in digital form

24. Compression – a technique that mathematically reduces the size of a file.

25. Computer Generated Effects--the use of a computer in making a film to create certain effects.

26. Cookies – programs which store data on the client’s computer for future reference.

27. Copyright – ownership of rights to copy anything that is in a tangible medium.

28. Crop – process of removing unwanted areas of a photograph.

29. CSS – Cascading style sheets. A set of type specifications that can be applied to a block of text,

a single web page or an entire web site.

30. Database – a structured collection of data.

31. Database management system – programs used to add, access, and process data stored in a

database.

32. Decibel – the smallest variation in amplitude that can be detected by the human ear.

33. Digital audio – sound that has been converted from analog to digital.