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Title: Introduction to Multimedia


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Introduction to Multimedia
  • o.O

2
Definition of Multimedia
  • Any combination of text, animated graphics,
    video, and sound delivered to you by computer or
    other electronic means.
  • A collection of various media that comes together
    to form a single unit. (MULTI-media)
  • Information that can be represented through a
    variety of media.

3
Convergence
  • What is it?
  • Technology
  • The overlapping of multiple types of media into
    single multimedia devices.
  • Fields of Study
  • Computer Science areas are overlapping. HCI,
    Graphics Visualization, Compression, Networking,
    Database Systems, etc.

4
Areas of Topics and Projects
  • Three Main Areas
  • Multimedia processing and coding
  • Content analysis, security, audio/image/video
    processing, compression, etc.
  • Multimedia system support and networking
  • Network protocols, operating systems, servers and
    clients, quality of service, databases, etc.
  • Multimedia tools, end systems, and applications
  • Hypermedia systems, UI, authoring systems, etc.

5
Multimedia
  • Interactive multimedia
  • The end user controls what is delivered when.
  • NON-linear
  • Hypermedia
  • A computer-based information retrieval system
    that enables a user to gain or provide access to
    texts, audio and video recordings, photographs,
    and computer graphics related to a particular
    subject.

6
HyperText
  • Alrightywe have all heard this a lot. Define
    it.
  • How is it different than the text in a book?

7
OMG teh Intarweb!
  • The most commonly used hypermedia application.
  • HTTP
  • Request Format
  • Method URI VersionAdditional-HeadersMessage-bod
    y
  • GET/POST
  • Ex. GET http//borkweb.com HTTP/1.1

8
Languages
  • HTML/XHTML
  • XML
  • SMIL
  • Similar to XHTML
  • Seq
  • Elements are displayed sequentially
  • Par
  • Elements are displayed in parallel
  • Excl
  • Only one of the grouped elements can be presented
    at a time order does not matter

9
Software Tools
  • Categories
  • Music Sequencing and Notation
  • Cakewalk, Cubase, Macromedia Sound Edit, etc
  • Digital Audio
  • Cool Edit, Sound Forge, Pro Tools, etc
  • Graphics and Image Editing
  • Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia
    Fireworks, etc
  • Video Editing
  • Adobe Premiere, Windows Movie Maker, iMovie, etc
  • Animation
  • 3D Studio Max, Maya, etc
  • Multimedia Authoring
  • Macromedia Flash, Macromedia Director, etc

10
And Now For Something Thatll Make You Crap Your
Pants
  • Do You Know Dick?
  • Identity 2.0 Presentation

11
Opinions?
  • What do you think about it?
  • What was good?
  • Bad?

12
Check This Out
  • Flickr
  • Heard of this?
  • Flickr Colr Pickr
  • Awesome

13
Homestar Runner
  • Homestar Runner
  • Strong Bad
  • Homestar
  • The Cheat
  • Pom Pom
  • Coach Z
  • Flash ?
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