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Multimedia And Digital Media

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Musical Instrument Digital Interface. System for communication between musical hardware and software applications.






2. Lossless file format for audio.






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






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






5. Tools to control placement of objects in presentation or DTP software.






6. The process of converting analog data into digital computer data.






7. Licensing system for authors who wish to distribute their work freely.






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






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






10. Lossless file format for audio.






11. Image effect found in most graphics software.






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






13. Lossy file format for video.






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






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






16. Temporary storage area used to store video or audio data ready for playing.






17. 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.






18. Used as part of colour synchronisation to specify how a device represents colour.






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






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






21. Graphics filtering for altering the tones and intensities of colours in an image.






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






23. Individual dots which make up bitmap graphics.






24. What You See Is What You Get. Refers to programs that present their output onscreen exactly as it will appear when printed.






25. Refers to the number of pixels in an image.






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






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






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






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






30. Number of samples taken each second when recording sound.






31. File format for documents - which can store text and some basic formatting information.






32. Lossy file format for video.






33. Lossy file format for images.






34. File format for documents - which can store text and some basic formatting information.






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






36. Also known as printer resolution. The number of dots of colour a printer is capable of producing in a certain amount of space.






37. Compression technique in which some file data is sacrificed in order to reduce file size.






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






39. Lossy file format for video.






40. Lossless file format for images.






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






42. Image with 24 bit colour depth.






43. Video or audio data that is played while it is downloading.






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






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






46. Software used to create or edit bitmap graphics.






47. Lossless file format for audio.






48. Also known as printer resolution. The number of dots of colour a printer is capable of producing in a certain amount of space.






49. Lossy file format for audio.






50. Lossless file format for images.