Question

1. What are the pros and cons of using a Multimedia Authoring system?
2. You are asked to product a project on Basketball that will be sold in stores and want to include a video clip of someone doing a slam dunk. What option do you do to get a clip and why. Explain how this will affect the budget of the project.      
3. An image is 400x300 pixels at 24 bit color. How many bytes does the image take up.
4. An image is 300x150 pixels at 8 bit color. How many bytes does the image take up.   

Answer 1

Multimedia Authoring System :

• These platforms specialize in one specific area of e-learning content creation,you usually have a great deal of creative freedom and design options.
• Easy to use.
• Saves time
• Interactive
• Performance tuning and playback features
• Delivery , Cross Platform & Internet playability.

Types and its pros and cons :

1. Card or page based tools

Pros:

• Easy to understand metaphore
• 1 screen = 1 card = 1 page
• Ease of use
• Provides Templates
• Short development time

Cons :

• Some run only on one platform
• Tools not as powerful as equivalent stand alones.

2. Icon based or Event driven

Pros :

• Clear Structure
• Easy editing and updating

Cons :

• Difficult to learn
• Expensive

3. Time based authoring

Pros :

• Good for creating animation
• Branching , user control , interactivity facilities

Cons :

• Expensive
• Large file size
• Steep learning curve to understand various feature

......................................................................................................................Answer of Part 2 :

I will organise a mini contest for Slam dunk in which i approach College or High school students to do a slam dunk and get a reward, whoever will done a perfect dunk with ease and perfection will get a reward and with their permission i will ask them whether i can shoot their dunk or not.

If the dunk was perfect with ease and clip show the things which the advt. is all about then i will finalize that clip for advt purpose , the reward which i provide for the slam dunk and the clip is not that much it has certain limit in which profit will be their on both side i.e student and mine.

But because of that perfect video i can attract customers to buy the Basketball from the atores.

Advertisment plays a very important role nowadays , the more perfection you use in you advertisement , the more customer will attract to the product.

...................................................................................................................... Answer Part 3 :

1. Given : Image is 400 x 300 pixels at 24 bit color. How many byte does the image take up?

Solution : 400 * 300 = 120,000

120,000 * 24bit = 2,880,000

2,880,000 / 8bits = 360,000 Bytes ( conversion of bits into bytes)

2. Given : Image is 300 x 150 pixels at 8 bit color . How many bytes does the image take up ?

Solution : 300 * 150 = 45,000

45,000 * 8bit = 360,000

360,000 / 8 = 45,000 Bytes