Lecture 1

Introduction to Multimedia Systems

Marwa Amir
Department of Computer Science
Bahria University Islamabad

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Contact Me
• Email
 [email protected]
Course Information
• Pre-requisite
 Computer Graphics

• Course meeting times

• Course Resource
 Lectures slides, assignments (computer/written), solutions to problems,
projects, and announcements will be provided.
Course Page

piazza.com/bahria_university_islamabad/
fall2019/sen493multimediasystems
Coure Information
• Class Composition

Readings

Lectures

Quizzes Assignments
Quiz
Class Norms Be on time

Let me do
the talking

No whispering

Raise hands
for questions
No cells

Listen to other
people’s questions
Be in class
Course Details
• How this course will proceed
• Stream1:
 Lectures will be delivered
 Assignments, Quizzes, Exams
 Book: Digital Multimedia
 By: Nigel Chapman and Jenny Chapman

• Stream2:
 Practical Assignments will be given
 Tools will be introduced and Tutorials
 Tools: Adobe Products
Major areas that will be covered in
this course
• Introduction • Hypermedia
• Fundamentals • Visual Design
• Interactivity
• Vector Graphics • Accessibility
• Bitmapped Images • Graphics Designing
• Image Editing
• Color
• Video Fusion
• Video
• Animation
• Sound
• Text and Typography
• Scripting
• XML and Multimedia
Introduction to Multimedia
 The shared digital representation that combines different media together can
be loosely called Multimedia.

 Multimedia means that computer information can be represented through

• Non-linear uses interactivity to control progress as with

Linear
Applications of Multimedia
• In education, teachers can use
multimedia presentations to
make lessons more interesting
by using animations to highlight
or demonstrate key points.
Applications of Multimedia
• A multimedia presentation can
also make it easier for pupils to
read text rather than trying to
read a teacher’s writing on the
board.
• Programs which show pictures
and text whilst children are
reading a story can help them
learn to read; these too are a
form of multimedia
presentation.
Applications of Multimedia
• The Internet has many
multimedia elements
embedded in web pages and
web browsers support a variety
of multimedia formats.
• Many computer games use
soundtracks, 3D graphics and
video clips
Applications of
Multimedia
• Video Conferencing

• Video-on-demand

• Interactive TV

• Home Shopping

• Games

• Virtual Reality

• Digital video editing and production systems

Linear or Non-Linear Behaviors

Creativity
 Keen Observations
 Target Audience
 Lots of exposure to similar area
 In-depth Analysis
 Re Creation in a better way
 Open to Criticism
Delivery of Multimedia
• Online Delivery
 Uses a network to send information from computer, often server
machine providing centralized storage of bulky data, to another,
usually a personal computer on somebody’s desk.
 The network can be LAN, Internet (World Wide Web)

• Offline Delivery
 Uses some removable storage medium
 CD ROMs/DVDs
 Multimedia Production
• Making of Multimedia requires software not only for preparation of individual media
elements, but for their integration in to finished production.
• Authoring Systems
 Programs that allow a designer to assemble different media elements in space and
time and add interactive behavior to them.
 Multimedia authoring involves organising, structuring and presenting information in
the form of a digital multimedia, which can incorporate text, audio, and still and
moving images.
 Story Boards
 Mean of making and communicating multimedia designs.
 Used in large animation studios, and by music videos and advertisement producers, to
plan the construction of a piece of work, and to communicate its structure among the
team producing it.
 A sequence of still picture showing the composition of shots at key points in
production.
 So it plans the work, which can be used to organize its subsequent development.
 Linear in behavior like a comic strip.
• Initial Storing Board
• After Multimedia Production
User Interface
 Terminology
• What do we call a mixture of media under software control?

• Multimedia Production
- Where the display and presentation of media elements is a sole purpose - Web
Page or an encyclopedia on CD-ROM

• Multimedia Application
- Where the display of the multimedia is more closely bound up with
computation.
- Any Computer application that contain or use Multimedia elements.
Brief History