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Multimedia And Digital Media

Subject : it-skills
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1. Also known as printer resolution. The number of dots of colour a printer is capable of producing in a certain amount of space.






2. A system used to capture human movement into a computer by attaching sensors to an actor and tracking their location.






3. Lossy file format for audio.






4. Common file format for the exchange of documents - which appears on screen exactly as it will appear on the printer.






5. Lossless file format for audio.






6. Legal concept which protects intellectual property from authorised copying - alteration - or use.






7. General name for operations performed on an image using graphics software.






8. File format that stores characters using ASCII or Unicode encoding.






9. Number of pixels displayed in each inch of screen output.






10. Amount of data used to represent a single sample in a video or audio file.






11. Technique used to replace part of a video image matching a certain colour with computer graphics.






12. Unit used to measure the resolution of digital cameras. Refers to 1 million pixels.






13. Lossless file format for audio.






14. Musical Instrument Digital Interface. System for communication between musical hardware and software applications.






15. Lossless file format for images.






16. Software required to view certain compressed video and audio formats.






17. Graphics which are stored as a series of mathematical shapes and properties that can be independently manipulated at any time.






18. Graphics composed of rectangular grids of pixels.






19. A page which is used to include standard features (such as page numbers or a header) on each page of a document in a consistent manner.






20. Software used for laying out text and images on pages. Commonly used for books - magazines - and brochures.






21. Graphics technique which copies one part of an image to another - often to remove something from the image.






22. Lossy file format for video.






23. Lossy file format for audio.






24. Lossless file format for audio.






25. Image effect found in most graphics software.






26. Individual dots which make up bitmap graphics.






27. Lossy file format for images.






28. Lossy file format for video.






29. The process of adding an author name or logo into an image to identify its owner and prevent intellectual property theft.






30. Number of pixels displayed in each inch of screen output.






31. Compression technique in which the original file is completely recoverable - with no loss of quality. Compare lossy compression.






32. Compressed file format for general data.






33. Effect that transforms one image into another over a series of frames.






34. Animated characters used in films - created entirely using computer graphics software.






35. Lossy file format for video.






36. File format that stores characters using ASCII or Unicode encoding.






37. File format for documents - used by LibreOffice.






38. Lossy file format for video.






39. Software used for laying out text and images on pages. Commonly used for books - magazines - and brochures.






40. The proficient use of fonts - font sizes - and font properties such as leading and kerning to display text in an appropriate manner.






41. Image which was created from several separate images.






42. Tools in graphics software for selecting only a subset of an image.






43. Area of a document which appears the same on every page.






44. Ensuring printed output colours accurately match those on the screen.






45. File format for documents - used by Microsoft Office.






46. Software which restricts the actions a user can perform with a file - such as copying or printing.






47. Acknowledge to a piece of work used as a source.






48. Exceptions to copyright law that allow copying in certain limited circumstances.






49. Technical graphics software used to design products for manufacture.






50. Refers to the number of colours in an image.