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SYLLABUS
Multimedia Systems
Objectives: To impart the skills needed to develop multimedia applications. Students will learn:
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S. No. Description
1. Multimedia: Meaning and its usage, Stages of a Multimedia Project & Multimedia Skills required in a team
2. Text: Fonts & Faces, Using Text in Multimedia, Font Editing & Design Tools, Hypermedia & Hypertext.
3. Sound: Multimedia System Sounds, Digital Audio, MIDI Audio, Audio File Formats, MIDI vs Digital Audio,
Audio CD Playback. Audio Recording. Voice Recognition & Response.
4. Images: Still Images – Bitmaps, Vector Drawing, 3D Drawing & rendering, Natural Light & Colors,
Computerized Colors, Color Palletes, Image File Formats, Macintosh & Windows Formats, Cross – Platform
format.
5. Animation: Principle of Animations. Animation Techniques, Animation File Formats.
6. Video: How Video Works, Broadcast Video Standards: NTSC, PAL, SECAM, ATSC DTV, Analog Video,
Digital Video, Digital Video Standards – ATSC, DVB, ISDB, Video recording & Shooting Videos, Video Editing,
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7. Hardware: Macintosh versus Windows, Connections: IDE, SCSI, UIDE, ATA, USB, Firewire etc. Storage
devices, Input , Output devices for Multimedia Projects.
8. Multimedia Software Tools: Text Editing & Word processing tools, OCR S/W, Painting & Drawing Tools, 3D
Modelling & Animation Tools, Image editing tools, Sound Editing tools, Animation, Video & Digital movie
tools, Overview of various types of Multimedia Authoring tools.
9. Compression: CODEC, Types of Compression & redundancies, GIF, JPEG & MPEG Standards Overview,
Fractals.
10. Multimedia tools for WWW & Designing for WWW: Plug Ins, Text, Images, Sound & Animation for the Web.
