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In Chapter 2, we introduce a set of tasks and concerns that are considered in studying multimedia, from the point of view of a technically comfortable reader. When it comes to multimedia production and presentation, the issues of graphics styles fonts are discussed, with some surprising conclusions. To provide a further “taste” of multimedia, we show how simple animations may proceed. To round out the discussion of such tasks, we consider a “build your own” video-transition problem, where the intent would be to generate one’s own video transition. We then go on to review the current and future state of multimedia sharing and distribution, outlining later discussions of social media, video sharing, and new forms of TV. Finally, the details of some popular multimedia tools are set out for a quick start into the field.
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Li, ZN., Drew, M.S., Liu, J. (2014). A Taste of Multimedia. In: Fundamentals of Multimedia. Texts in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05290-8_2
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