Objective:
The course is designed with an objective to
Introduce the fundamental elements of multimedia.
Describe how still images, sound, and video can be digitized on the computer.
Learning Outcome:
On completion of the course, students will be able to
Summarize the key concepts in current multimedia technology.
Create quality multimedia software titles.
Unit I: 8L
Multimedia: Introduction to multimedia, Components, Uses of multimedia.
Unit II: 15L
Making Multimedia: Stages of a multimedia project, Requirements to make good multimedia,
Multimedia Hardware - Macintosh and Windows production Platforms, Hardware peripherals -
Connections, Memory and storage devices, Multimedia software and Authoring tools.
Unit III: 7L
Text: Fonts & Faces, Using Text in Multimedia, Font Editing & Design Tools, Hypermedia
&Hypertext.
Unit IV: 6L
Images: Still Images – Bitmaps, Vector Drawing, 3D Drawing & rendering, Natural Light &
Colors, Computerized Colors, Color Palletes, Image File Formats.
Unit V: 6L
Sound: Digital Audio, MIDI Audio, MIDI vs Digital Audio, Audio File Formats.
Unit VI: 8L
Video: How Video Works, Analog Video, Digital Video, Video File Formats, Video Shooting and
Editing.
Unit VII: 10L
Animation: Principle of Animations. Animation Techniques, Animation File Formats.
Books Recommended:
1. Tay Vaughan, “Multimedia: Making it work”, TMH, Eighth edition. 2006
2. Ralf Steinmetz and Klara Naharstedt, “Multimedia: Computing, Communications
Applications”, Pearson,1995.
3. Keyes, “Multimedia Handbook”, TMH. 2000.
4. K. Andleigh and K. Thakkar, “Multimedia System Design”, PHI,2000
Computer Lab Based on Multimedia and Applications:
Practical exercises using Flash.
FLASH: Concept of Frame, Key frames, Frame rate, Timeline, Tween, Layers, Symbols,
Embedding audio/video and embedding on the web page
The course is designed with an objective to
Introduce the fundamental elements of multimedia.
Describe how still images, sound, and video can be digitized on the computer.
Learning Outcome:
On completion of the course, students will be able to
Summarize the key concepts in current multimedia technology.
Create quality multimedia software titles.
Unit I: 8L
Multimedia: Introduction to multimedia, Components, Uses of multimedia.
Unit II: 15L
Making Multimedia: Stages of a multimedia project, Requirements to make good multimedia,
Multimedia Hardware - Macintosh and Windows production Platforms, Hardware peripherals -
Connections, Memory and storage devices, Multimedia software and Authoring tools.
Unit III: 7L
Text: Fonts & Faces, Using Text in Multimedia, Font Editing & Design Tools, Hypermedia
&Hypertext.
Unit IV: 6L
Images: Still Images – Bitmaps, Vector Drawing, 3D Drawing & rendering, Natural Light &
Colors, Computerized Colors, Color Palletes, Image File Formats.
Unit V: 6L
Sound: Digital Audio, MIDI Audio, MIDI vs Digital Audio, Audio File Formats.
Unit VI: 8L
Video: How Video Works, Analog Video, Digital Video, Video File Formats, Video Shooting and
Editing.
Unit VII: 10L
Animation: Principle of Animations. Animation Techniques, Animation File Formats.
Books Recommended:
1. Tay Vaughan, “Multimedia: Making it work”, TMH, Eighth edition. 2006
2. Ralf Steinmetz and Klara Naharstedt, “Multimedia: Computing, Communications
Applications”, Pearson,1995.
3. Keyes, “Multimedia Handbook”, TMH. 2000.
4. K. Andleigh and K. Thakkar, “Multimedia System Design”, PHI,2000
Computer Lab Based on Multimedia and Applications:
Practical exercises using Flash.
FLASH: Concept of Frame, Key frames, Frame rate, Timeline, Tween, Layers, Symbols,
Embedding audio/video and embedding on the web page
