Introduction in Multimedia:
Multimedia concepts - research, design, and planning; multimedia applications for education and training, business applications, home entertainment; multimedia authoring software; Multimedia production cycle.
Multimedia in Networks:
Multimedia in Legacy networks, FDDI, ATM, Wireless networks, Real-Time protocols-RSVP, RTP, RTCP, RTSP, etc.
Multimedia components:
Text: Types of information, Hypertext, and Hypermedia
Sound: Audio capture and representation - fundamentals of audio and perception; Digital sound and characteristics, Sampling variables, Sound Card layout, Compression, Lossless compression of sound, loss compression & silence compression, Synthesis of sounds, Difference between waveform and synthesized audio, Sound Formats- WAV, MPEG, MIDI, MIDI computer systems; frequency and dynamic ranges; basic sound editing, Music editors, Lab Exercises in adobe photoshop and adobe illustrator
Graphics: Still image manipulation - still image capture, creation, and representation; file resolution, file sizing, and portability; Image Compression-LZW compression, Huffman Coding, Graphic adapters, Graphic file formats and characteristics, GIFF, TIFF, JPEG, Web graphics, Incorporating multimedia elements in web pages. 2D graphical image manipulation in layer based images; applying special effects, such as transformations, text effects, filters, 3D graphics, Lab exercises in Adobe Photoshop
Animation: Fundamentals of Animations, Formats of animation files, Animation software, 3D-animation-Lab exercises in Visual Basic, Macromedia Flash, Macromedia Director.
Video: Fundamentals, Compression, Video capture cards, Formats, MPEG standards, MHEG Standard recent development in Multimedia, Digital Camcorders, and Camera.