BCA Syllabus – Multimedia Technology & Applications

6.3 Multimedia Technology & Applications

Third Year          Part III Group A                 Sixth Semester                Subject Code:   

Unit - 1

Introduction: Objectives – History of Multimedia – Its market – Content copyright – Resources for multimedia developers – Types of produces – Evaluation – Hardware Architecture – OS and Software – Multimedia Architecture – Software library – Drivers.

Unit - 2

Text and Graphics :     Elements of Text – Text Data files – Using text in Multimedia Application – Hypertext – Elements of Graphics – Images and color – Graphics files and Application formats – Creating images for multimedia use –Using graphics in Application.

Unit - 3

Digital Audio and Video :      Characteristics of sound and Digital audio – Digital Audio systems – MIDI – Audio file formats – Using Audio in Multimedia Applications – Audio for content – Background as video – Characteristics of digital video – digital video data sizing 0 Video capture and playback systems –computer animation.

Unit - 4

Product design and Authoring tools: Building blocks – classes of products – Content organizational strategies – story boarding – Multimedia tool selection – Tool feature – categories of Authoring tools – selecting the right authoring paradigm.

Unit - 5

Multimedia and Internet :       Internet – HTML and web authoring – Multimedia considerations for Internet – Design considerations for web pages.

TEXT BOOK :

Multimedia Technology and Applications – David Hillman-Galgotia Publications pvt. Ltd, 1998.

REFERENCE BOOK :

Multimedia making it work by Tay Vaughan TMH, 1997