Introduction to Multimedia

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Introduction to Multimedia

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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HyperText

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

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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

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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

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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

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And Now For Something Thatll Make You Crap Your
Pants

• Do You Know Dick?
• Identity 2.0 Presentation

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Opinions?

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

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Check This Out

• Flickr
• Heard of this?
• Flickr Colr Pickr
• Awesome

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Homestar Runner

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