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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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The introduction to the multimedia (basics terms, historical context, basic components, development tools, the multimedia products area) Technology and resources suitable for multimedia (the computer requirements, communication network, development tools) Video processing (video digitalization, video standards, the introduction to the video compression, commonly video files formats, QuickTime, video processing and utilization) Animation processing (sprite and key-frame animations, 3D animations) Audio processing (audio capturing, audio compression, commonly audio files formats, audio and video fusion) The multimedia product building (hypertext, synchronized multimedia) The multimedia interactivity (events oriented control, the multimedia objects behavior, script languages, time-line scripts) Multimedia and computers networks (communication networks and protocols, network and transport protocols, multicasting, multimedia protocols in the application layer)
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Skills training, Laboratory work
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Learning outcomes
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The course provides to students essential knowledge of multimedia processing and multimedia applications building. The practical training is mainly on the multimedia author´s systems focused.
During the course students acquire the basic knowledge and skills within the multimedia author´s systems and the of the multimedia presentation creation skills.
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Prerequisites
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The courses is oriented to the vector and bitmap graphic processing and text and hypertext information processing (Graphics Editors, Design and construction of Web pages).
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Oral examination, Home assignment evaluation
Credit requirements: the student attendance on all practice courses is required. Student´s assignment works (multimedia presentation) is required, too. The exam is based on theoretical knowledge (oral exam - 2 random questions from questions list) and the multimedia presentation.
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Recommended literature
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Furht, Borko. A Guided tour of multimedia systems and applications. Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society Press, 1995. ISBN 0-8186-7054-1.
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Chapman, Nigel. Digital media tools. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2007. ISBN 978-0-470-01227-7.
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Chapman, Nigel. Digital multimedia. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2000. ISBN 0-471-98386-1.
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