Multimedia

SYLLABUS

UNIT-I

Multimedia: Needs and areas of use, Development platforms for multimedia - DOS, Windows, Linux. Identifying Multimedia elements - Text, Images, Sound, Animation and Video, Making simple multimedia with PowerPoint

Text - Concepts of plain & formatted text, RTF & HTML texts,using common text preparation tools. Conversion to and from various textformats, Using standard software, Object Linking and Embedding concept. Basicsof font design. overview of some fonts editing and designing tools,Understanding & using various text effects.

Images - importance of graphics in multimedia, Vector and Rastergraphics, image capturing methods -- scanner, digital camera etc. variousattributes of Images - size, color, depth etc, Various Image file format - BMP,DIB. EPS. GIF. PEX. PIC, JPG, TGA, PNG and TIF format - their features andlimitations, graphic file formats conversions. processing images with commonsoftware tools such as Photoshop, Paint Shop pro, Corel draw etc .. 

UNIT-II

Sound: Sound and it Attributes, Mono Vs Stereo sound, Sound channels, Sound and its effect in multimedia. Analog Vs Digital sound, Basics of digital sounds-Sampling, Frequency, Sound Depth, Channels, Sound on Pc,Sound standards on PC, Capturing and Editing sound on PC, Overview and using some sound recording. editing software. Overview of various sound file formats on PC - WAV, MP3, MP4, Ogg Vorbise etc.

Animation: Basics of animation, Principle and use of animation in multimedia, Effect of resolutions. pixel depth. Images size on quality and storage. Overview of 2-D and 3-D animation techniques and software- animation pro. 3D studio & Paint Shop pro animator.

Animation onthe Web - features and limitations, creating simple animations forthe Web using GIF Animator and Flash. 

UNIT-III

Basics of Video- Anlog and Digital Video, How to use video onPC, introduction to graphics accelerator cards, directX, introduction toad/dv and IEE1394 cards, digitization of analog video to digital video,interlacing and non interlacing, brief note on various videostandards-NTSC, PAL, SECAM, HDTV. Introduction to video capturing media andinstrument, videodisk, DVCAM, camcorder. Introduction to digital videocompression techniques and various file formats= avi, mpeg, mov, realvideo.

Brief introduction to video editing and movie making tools- quick time,video for windows and adobe premier.

UNIT-IV

Authoringtools for CD based multimedia- type of multimedia authoring tools, key factorsof selecting CD based multimedia authoring tools, planning and distribution ofa multimedia project, multimedia development team and skills requirement,stages in designing and producing multimedia products for CD, testing ofproduct, distribution of multimedia product, various formats of cds and dvds.

UNIT-V

Multimedia on the web: bandwidth relationship, broadband technologies, text in the web- dynamic and embedded font technology, audio on the web- real audio and mp3/mp4, audio support in HTML, graphics- HTML safe color palette, interlaced vs. non interlaced model, graphics support in HTML, image map, video on the web- streaming video, real video, MEPEG AND SMIL, virtual reality on the web.