Designed as the foundation text in multimedia, this comprehensiveresource covers basic principles of each media type - text,graphics, audio, animation and video - describing theirdigitization and progressing onto issues that arise when media arecombined. This edition includes completely revised and re-written pedagogywhich takes account of substantial instructor feedback, as well asmarket research and development on other Chapman titles.There is also a web/Flash emphasis and proper coverage ofMPEG4 and DVD in line with current technology trends. There are also extensive resources to be found at the author'swebsite at: http://www.digitalmultimedia.org/