Multimedia Vocabulary

1. Animation--making an object appear to have movement
2. Audio Clip--a file that contains sound
3. Background--the layer on the screen that seems "farther" from the viewer
4. Button--in hypermedia, an object or feature used to create links between differnet cards, to initiate other actions, or to reproduce sound.
5. Camcorder--a hand-held video camera
6. CD-ROM--stands for Compact Disk-Read Only Memory.  An optical disk that can only be read from and not written to.
7. Compact Disk (CD)--a small, portable, round medium for electronically recording, storing, and playing back audio, video, text, and other information in digital form
8. Computer Generated Effects--the use of a computer in making a film to create certain effects.
9. Digitize--to change analog information into digital information that the computer can use
10. DPI--dots per inch (pixels)
11. Hypertext--"active" text where one word is linked to another into a computer program
12. MIDI--Musical Instrument Digital Interface
13. Morphing--transforming one object into another object through the use of a computer
14. Multimedia--using a computer to merge various types of media such as word processing, graphics, sound, and video
15. Pixel--the smallest component of an image that can be transmitted or received in a video display system (tiny points of light that make up a picture)
16. Scanner--a peripheral device that captures images from photographic prints, posters, magazine pages, and similar sources for computer editing and display. (converts to data that is put into a computer)
17. Stationary--when the object remains still
18. Text Box--in hypermedia, an object or area on a card/slide/ page where text is entered
19. Video Clip--a file that contains pictures in motion
20. Virtual Reality--lifelike world that is created by a computer in which a person becomes part of the action