1. Multimedia Applications
Lecture Plan
Class: 2009 Semester: 7th
Course Code: CS403 Course Name: Multimedia Applications
Lecturer Name: Razia Nisar Noorani Tutorial/Consultation Time: Monday(9 to 4pm)
Contact E-mail: razia-nisar@hotmail.com Course Website:
http://gropus.yahoo.com/group/mma2012
Recommended Books:
Multimedia making it work, by Tay Vaughan, fifth edition
Course Objectives:
Multimedia Applications is giving students advanced experience in using multimedia to merge text and
graphics, as well as in editing and dubbing video and sound. Applied principles are used to analyze and
organize information, set up a design structure, and produce special visual expressions. Students will be
able to develop an interactive multimedia presentation with academic core integration.
Software used: Photoshop CS2, Photoshop Image ready, Dreamweaver, Flash MX
Grading Policy:
A 4 80 and above Excellent
B 3 65-79 Good
C 2 50-64 Pass
F 0 Less then 50 Fail
I - - Incomplete (For Thesis)
S - - Approved (If Thesis is Satisfactory)
U - - Not Approved
(If Thesis is Unsatisfactory)
W - - Withdrawn from the course
Week wise Lecturer Plan

2. Week 1 Introduction of Multimedia, History, Terminologies and Applications
of multimedia, hypertext and hypermedia, Characteristics of
multimedia, Challenges for Multimedia Systems
Week 2 The key issues of multimedia systems, Desirable Features for a
Multimedia System, Components of a Multimedia System
Applications of multimedia, Trends in Multimedia, Multimedia
Technologies.
Week3 Multimedia Data Representations, fonts production and word
processing tools/ software methods etc
Week 4 History of Text, Importance of Text ,The power of Meaning, Uses of
text in Multimedia application , Fonts and Faces, Categorization of
Typefaces, Font Editing & Design Tools, Using Text in Multimedia
Week 5 3D and 2D Animation/ Computerized animation Vs CEL Animation
(Manual Animation Techniques)
Week 6 Multimedia Authoring Tools (Icon based, Time-based, Card-based
and page based).
Week 7 Qualities of Sound, Analogue and digital sound file types,
Digitization (Sampling) of analogue sound, Sound wave editing
techniques (Quantization, clipping, etc)
Week 8 Multimedia Data Representations (Digital Audio), Application of
Digital Audio, Adding sound to a multimedia project, sound sources,
destination, Digitization of Sound, Digital Sampling, Sample Rates
and Bit Size, sound channels, mono, stereo.
MID TERM EXAMINATION
Week 9 Images Types (black and White, Mono, gray scale, color), Still
images types, bitmap, vector,etc Image file types (Jpeg, BMP,
GIFF, etc), Compressed and Uncompressed Images, Compression
types.
Week 10 Graphics
Week 11 Video Types-Analog, digital, video codec’s. Compression and
Decompression techniques/Software
Week 12 2D/3D Drawing and Rendering
Week 13 Video Broadcasting standards- NTSC, PAL, SECAM, HDTV, etc,

3. Differences between computer and Television Video.
Week 14 Multimedia on the internet, HTML, XML, animated gif’s, PNG etc
(Animation for the web) MIME types.
Week 15 Storage Media, High performance I/O, Optical Storage, CD
Storage, CD-DA, CD-I, CD Standards
Week 16 Multimedia Project Design Concepts