Unit I
Evolution of Multimedia and its objects, Scope of multimedia in business & work, Production and planning of Multimedia applications.
Multimedia hardware, Memory & Storage Devices, Communication Devices, Multimedia Software, Presentation and object generation tools, Video, sound, Image capturing, Authoring Tools, Card & Page Based Authoring Tools.
Unit II
Production and Planning of Multimedia building blocks, Text, sound (MIDI), Digital Audio, Audio File Formats, MIDI under Windows environment, Audio & Video Capture.
Unit III
Macromedia products, Basic drawing techniques, Advance animation techniques, Creating multi layer combining interactivity and multiple scenes, Creating transparency effects using text in Flash, Flash animation.
Unit IV
Digital Audio Concepts, Sampling variables, Loss Less compression of sound, Lossy compression & Silence compression.
Unit V
Multimedia monitor bitmaps, Vector drawing, Lossy graphic compression, Image file formatic animations Image standards, J P E G compression, Zig Zag coding,
Video representation, colors, video compression, MPEG standards, MHEG standard, recent development in multimedia.
Multimedia Application Planning, Costing, Proposal preparation, and Financing-Case study of a typical industry.
References­:
Andreas Halzinger, “Multimedia Basics”, Vol-I to Vol-III, Firewall Media, New Delhi.
Tay Vaughan, “Multimedia Making It work”, Tata McGraw Hill.
Buford, “Multimedia Systems”, Addison Wesley.
Agarwal and Tiwari, “Multimedia Systems”, Excel.
Rosch, “Multimedia Bible”, Sams Publishing
Sleinreitz, “Multimedia Systems”, Addison Wesley
Ken Milburn, John Croteau, “Flash 4 web special Effects, Animation & Design Handbook”, Dreamtech Press.
John Villamil–Casanova & Louis Molina, “Multimedia-Production, Planning & Delivery”, PHI