Question :

Multimedia involves multiple modalities of text, audio, images, drawings, animation, and video

(a) Describe three popular file formats for images

(b) Most image formats incorporate some variation of a compression technique due to the large storage size of image files. Compression techniques can be classified into either lossless or lossy. Explain why compression is important in this specific situation and explain the difference between lossless and lossy compression.

(c) Describe one graphics and image editing Tool highlighting some features present.

(d) Digital Audio tools deal with accessing and editing the actual sampled sounds that make up audio. Describe one popular Digital Audio tool

(e) Describe one Video Editing Software highlighting some interesting features present.

(f) Transmission of information carrying different media leads to data streams with varying features. The transmission can be synchronous or asynchronous. Describe the difference between the two.