In this program two interactive software developers describe multimedia hardware and software, and how multimedia content-text, audio, and video-is created and supported. Tin Man Games programmer Ben Britten discusses Apple's Xcode suite of tools used to make iPhone applications, and gives an overview of the software that plans, captures, edits, and displays multimedia, including codec programs that process and store files. The video also examines content sharing, virality, and the social and ethical implications of multimedia technology.

Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on January 16, 2012. Learn360 is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.

What Is Multimedia? (3:58) -- Multimedia Technologies (2:44) -- Multimedia Elements (4:30) -- Bringing It All Together (4:21) -- Issues Related to Multimedia Systems (3:47) -- Credits: Multimedia Systems: An Introduction (0:32).