Multimedia
2016-2017
Dr. Sameh Zarif
Lecture #1
General Rules
Multimedia 2
Course Assessment
Midterm Exam and assignments : 20%
Practical exam and lab. Work : 20%
Final Exam: 60%
Attendance : 0%
9/23/2017 Multimedia 3
Structure
Three hours lecture per week:
Wednesday 11:30 to 2:00 PM
Three hours lab per week
See lab time table
One problem sheet every two weeks
Fragments of exam style questions
Research questions
Programming tasks
To be handed on time to the representative student
Course Materials
All support materials for this course will be
available at our Facebook group:
Department groups
Fourth year group
Create our own course group
This includes
All Lectures chapters and slides in .pdf format
All Problem sheets in .pdf format
All Lab sheets in .pdf format
Links to support information on particular topics
Course Overall Aims
Develop your knowledge and understanding of the underlying
concepts and theories of multimedia system.
Understand the principles of multimedia creation and
processing and the main features of multimedia systems.
Outline and analyze the different elements of multimedia.
Provide the necessary details on how multimedia data are
represented, stored, compressed and used.
Understand the problems of multimedia sources transmission,
and the need to compression.
Understand the different types of compression.
Course Book
Course Outlines
Introduction to Multimedia Digital Data Acquisition.
Course Outlines
Media Representation and Color Theory
Media Formats.
Course Outlines
Multimedia Authoring. Media Compression
revisited.
Lab Work
Lab activities
Website creation
Logo design
Multimedia programming tasks
Cartoon movie creation
Multimedia is Multidisciplinary
Overview of Multimedia Software Tools
Software tools available for carrying out tasks in
multimedia are:
1. Digital Audio
2. Graphics and Image Editing
3.Video Editing
4. Animation
5. Multimedia Authoring
Digital Audio Software
Tools deal with accessing and editing the actual sampled
sounds that make up audio:
- Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit) is a powerful, popular
digital audio toolkit that emulate a professional audio studio,
including multitrack productions and sound file editing, along with
digital signal processing effects.
- Sound Forge Like Audition, Sound Forge is a sophisticated PC-
based program for editing WAV files.
Pro Tools: a high-end integrated audio production and editing
environment . It offers MIDI creation and manipulation; powerful
audio mixing, recording, and editing software.
Graphics and Image Editing Software
Adobe Illustrator: a powerful publishing tool from Adobe. Uses
vector graphics; graphics can be exported to Web.
Adobe Photoshop: the standard in a graphics, image processing and
manipulation tool.
◦ Allows layers of images, graphics, and text that can be separately manipulated
for maximum flexibility.
◦ Filter factory permits creation of sophisticated lighting-effects filters
Macromedia Fireworks: software for making graphics specifically
for the web.
Macromedia Freehand: a text and web graphics editing tool that
supports many bitmap formats such as GIF, PNG, and JPEG.
Video Editing Software
Adobe Premiere: an intuitive, simple video editing tool for nonlinear
editing, i.e., putting video clips into any order:
- Video and audio are arranged in "tracks".
- Provides a large number of video and audio tracks, super-impositions
and virtual clips.
- A large library of built-in transitions, filters and motions for clips =>
effective multimedia productions with little effort.
Adobe After Effects: a powerful video editing tool that enables
users to add and change existing movies. Can add many effects:
lighting, shadows, motion blurring; layers.
Video Editing Software
Final Cut Pro: a video editing tool by Apple; Macintosh only.
CyberLink PowerDirector: PowerDirector produced by
CyberLink Corp.
◦ is by far the most popular nonlinear video editing software.
◦ It provides a rich selection of audio and video features and special effects
◦ easy to use.
◦ It supports all modern video formats (AVCHD 2.0, 4K Ultra HD, and 3D video)
◦ It supports 64-bit video processing
◦ it is not as “programmable” as Premiere.
Animation Software
Animation Software (Rendering Tools):
- 3D Studio Max: rendering tool that includes a number of very high-
end professional tools for character animation, game development, and
visual effects production.
Softimage XSI: a powerful modeling, animation, and rendering
package used for animation and special effects in films and games.
Maya: competing product to Softimage; as well, it is a complete
modeling package.
RenderMan: rendering package created by Pixar.
Multimedia Authoring Software
Tools that provide the capability for creating a complete multimedia
presentation, including interactive user control, are called authoring
programs.
- Macromedia Flash: allows users to create interactive movies by
using the score metaphor, i.e., a timeline arranged in parallel event
sequences.
- Macromedia Director: uses a movie metaphor to create interactive
presentations. It is very powerful and includes a built in scripting
language, Lingo, that allows creation of complex interactive movies.
Multimedia Authoring Software
Authorware: a mature, well-supported authoring product based on the
Iconic/Flow-control metaphor.
Quest: similar to Authorware in many ways, uses a type of flowcharting
metaphor. However, the flowchart nodes can encapsulate information in a
more abstract way (called frames) than simply subroutine levels.
