Multimedia means using computers to combine different types of information like text, pictures, sounds, videos, and animations to make interesting and interactive presentations. People use multimedia in many areas like education, training, business, and entertainment.
In multimedia, you have things like:
- Text: This is words that are often used with other stuff to give more information.
- Pictures: These are visual things like images, drawings, or photos that make multimedia look good and help people understand things.
- Sound: Sound is important in multimedia because it makes things sound real and interesting.
- Video: Videos are like mini movies that are great for showing information in multimedia.
- Animation: This is when pictures move around and look cool in multimedia.
Multimedia is used in lots of places, like in making video podcasts, slide shows with sound, animated videos, and more for teaching, marketing, and entertainment.
A multimedia computer is a special computer that’s really good at working with multimedia. It can handle lots of data and do complicated things with multimedia content. These days, you can find multimedia capabilities in mobile devices like phones and in powerful desktop and laptop computers.