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Multimedia And Digital Media

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Common file format for the exchange of documents - which appears on screen exactly as it will appear on the printer.






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






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






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






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






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






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






8. Lossless file format for audio.






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






10. Refers to creations of the mind - non-physical property such as photographs - music - stories - and films.






11. Software used to create or edit bitmap graphics.






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






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






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






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






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






17. Image effect found in most graphics software.






18. Image which was created from several separate images.






19. Lossy file format for video.






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






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






22. Lossless file format for audio.






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






24. Standard file format for vector image data.






25. Lossy file format for images.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






33. Graphics composed of rectangular grids of pixels.






34. Graphics created entirely on a computer - using 2D or 3D graphics software.






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






36. Lossy file format for video.






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






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






39. Reduction in the amount of data used to store a file.






40. Lossy file format for video.






41. A template 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.






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






43. Lossy file format for audio.






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






45. File format for documents - used by LibreOffice.






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






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






48. Lossy file format for video.






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






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