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Sound and Sight Audio and Image Editing Basics. C. Candace Chou University of St. Thomas. RealPlayer: .rm, .ram QuickTime: .mov MP3 player: .mp3 .Macintosh audio format: .aiff or .aif, . Windows audio format: .wav Web: .au, wav, aiff or aif Audio compression settings:
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Sound and SightAudio and Image Editing Basics C. Candace Chou University of St. Thomas
RealPlayer: .rm, .ram QuickTime: .mov MP3 player: .mp3 .Macintosh audio format: .aiff or .aif, . Windows audio format: .wav Web: .au, wav, aiff or aif Audio compression settings: Web: IMA 4:1; Rate: 22.050 KHZ; Size: 16 bits CD: Rate: 44.1 KHz; Size: 16 bits; Stereo Sound Formats and Applications
Macintosh Sound Edit 16 http://www.macromedia.com/software/sound/ Sound Studio http://www.felttip.com/products/soundstudio/ Windows CoolEdit, http://www.syntrillium.com/ SoundForge Studio (http://www.sonicfoundry.com/Products/showproduct.asp?PID=718) Free/Shareware: http://www.freeware.com Sound Editing Software
Sound Effects: http://www.apple.com/imovie/ Music downloads http://www.mp3.com http://www.bakerymusic.com http://www.free-music.com iMovie takes both MP3 and AIFF files Free Audio Download
JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) Web-based documents for photographic images or images that have noncontinuous colors - that have a variety of shades or gradations. Allows millions of colors Image Formats & Uses
GIF (Graphic Interchange Format) Web-based documents for images that have a continuous or flat color UP to 256 colors Transparent background Animated GIF Image Formats & Uses
JPEG & GIF Comparison • JPEG (Left): retains colors better • GIF (Middle & Right): lost colors in pictures, support line drawing, simple cartoons.
Bitmap (.bmp): Electronic presentations, e.g., Microsoft PowerPoint or Microsoft Word, commonly used for Windows TIFF (Tagged-Image File Format): Print documents, scanned images, when high quality and precision is required; tiff files can be changed for either larger or smaller files without losing precision. EPS (Encapsulated PostScript): Print publication and illustrations PICT: A generic file format for Macintosh File Format and Uses
JPEG or GIF file format Change the resolution to 72 dpi to save image size Download a web image by control-click (Macintosh) or right-mouse click (Windows) to save image to disk Clip Arts: http://school.discovery.com/clipart/ Web Images
Photoshop Elements 2 Photoshop Macromedia Fireworks AppleWorks6 GraphicConverter Try http://www.freeware.com for shareware and freeware Graphic Editing Software
Dimensions of an iMovie Graphic • Set size to 640 x 480 pixels • Black borders appear for smaller pictures
Wirtze. J. GIF vs. JPEG, http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/geektalk/97/30/index3a.html?tw=design Lohr, Linda (2003). Creating Graphics for Learning and Performance: Lesson in Visual Literacy. Pearson Education, Inc. Reference