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| Multimedia Production | Enhances your communication skills by giving your audience a visual representation of your ideas. |
| Aspect ratio | Proportioning graphic size when scaling a picure. |
| Authoring software | Programs used to create full, multimedia productions, such as simulations and tutorials, and require some knowledge of programming language concepts. |
| Audio Video Interleaved | The windows format for saving video with sound. |
| BMP | The windows format for storing simple graphics. |
| CODEC | A program and/or device that compresses and decompresses digital video. |
| Color palette | Available color selections, ranging from 16 colors and 16.7 million colors. |
| Digital | The process of converting video or audio signals, normally in waveform, into 1's and 0's. |
| Dithering | Blending colors to modify colors or produce new ones. |
| Dropped frame | In digital video, when the computer cannot keep pace with the displayed images, it drops frames in an attempt to catch up. |
| Frames per second | Number of images displayed per second, giving digital video the illusion of motion. |
| Frame | A single picture in a computerized "movie". |
| GIF | A grapics file format originated by Compuserve, usable for web pages and some multimedia software. |
| JPEG | A graphics format capable of representing up to 16.7 million colors that is ideal for complex pictures of natural, real world scenes, including photograhs, realist artwork, and paintings. |
| MIDI | A file containing encoding musical data. |
| MPEG | A format for the compression of digitized videos and animations. |
| Theme continuity | Developing transitions or bridges between key points. |
| Storyboarding | Creating note cards and laying out the cards in the order you want to present them. |
