Exam 8: Digital Media

The term ____ refers to videos that are constructed and displayed using a personal computer.

To convert a printed image into a digital graphic, use a(n)____.

Digital cameras often store photos in JPEG or TIFF formats.

A vector graphic is being created in the above figure.

In a bitmap graphic, each pixel is assigned a color, which is stored as a binary number in a file.

When transferring video files to your computer, a DV clip requires roughly 1 GB of storage per ____ minutes of video.

Any text in a vector image is stored on the Web as text, so it can be found using search engines.

iPods and Zunes are portable ____ players.

You are enrolled in an online course this semester, and you use a Web camera to communicate with your instructor and other students. As part of an assignment, you are asked to shoot a presentation using your Web camera. Your best friend, Joanie, is storing and editing desktop video. She decides to store videos in an AVI file format for desktop viewing. During the process, she is prompted to compress the video stream and asked to specify the compression ratio. Explain to Joanie the differences in a high compression ratio of 35:1 and a lower compression ratio of 5:1.

____ compression is a technique that can be applied to video footage to eliminate redundant or unnecessary data.

____ is a form of legal protection that gives certain exclusive rights to the author of a program.

You are enrolled in an online course this semester, and you use a Web camera to communicate with your instructor and other students. As part of an assignment, you are asked to shoot a presentation using your Web camera. You are in the process of transferring a video from your digital video camera to your computer. You are concerned about the amount of hard drive space the video will use on your PC. Explain how you can reduce the file size by using your video capture software.

When you have an existing printed image, such as a photograph, you can use a ____ (like the one shown in the figure above)to convert the image into a bitmap graphic.

Popular video player software used in personal computers is ____.

____ is the most popular digital videotape format and is used by most consumer digital video cameras.

The process of covering a wireframe with surface color and texture in a 3-D image, as shown in the figure above, is called ____________________.

You can digitize music from your CD collection by using CD____________________ software that converts CD-audio music into computer friendly digital audio format.

____ is a music notation system that allows computers to communicate with music synthesizers.

____ refers to the process of removing part of an image.

Bitmap graphics are resolution reliable , which means that the quality of the image depends on its resolution.