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What is multimedia?
Multimedia is a generalized term used to describe the intermixing of different media types to create a presentation; so what we are talking about is mixing text, sound, animation, and video.
Some examples of multimedia
Probably the most obvious are websites with video or animation included. The most common seen are probably Flash based websites that nearly always contain some sort of animation and, more and more often, sound and video.
Other types of multimedia can be found in PowerPoint presentations, Director CD-ROM projects, or web pages with QuickTime or Real Video movies embedded.
How do you create multimedia presentations?
To create these presentations you need the software (often called the 'authoring tool') that allows you to build the presentation. So if you wanted to create a Flash based 'movie' you need to get a program that creates them; programs like Macromedia Flash and Swish. If you wanted to create a PowerPoint presentation you need the PowerPoint program. And of course, since Killersites is all about websites, to create multimedia based web sites; you can do it with good old HTML and a few files that you can embed into the HTML page turning it into a multimedia experience.
Turning your web page into a multimedia presentation
Probably the easiest way to create multimedia rich web pages these days is using Flash. Flash files are linked to your HTML page and though they look to be an integrated part of the web page, Flash movies are actually running in their own little 'sandbox' very much separate from the web page. Because of that, all the work in creating the Flash movies is done in the various Flash authoring tools as mentioned above. There is actually very little in the HTML page itself except for a few lines of code that tells the browser where to get the Flash movie.
The poor man's way of transforming your web page into a multimedia extravaganza is by using file types that your browser knows what to do with automatically and doesn't require special multimedia plug-ins like the Flash player.
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