TYPES OF MULTIMEDIA PROJECT Linear VS Non-Linear

LINEAR
AMultimediaProjectisidentifiedasLinearwhen:
Itisnotinteractive Userhavenocontroloverthecontentthatisbeingshowedto

them. Example: E l
Amovie Anoninteractivelecture/demoshow

NON-LINEAR NON LINEAR

Linear VS Non-Linear

AMultimediaProjectisidentifiedasNonLinearwhen:
Itisinteractive Usershavecontroloverthecontentthatisbeingshowedtothem. them Usersaregivennavigationalcontrol

Example:
Games Ga es Courseware InteractiveCD

Interactive Multimedia
Interactive Multimedia example When the user is given the option of controlling the

elements l t .

WhatisHyperText andHyperMedia? yp yp
Hypertext isatextwhichcontainslinkstoothertexts. texts The

termwasinventedbyTedNelsonaround1965.

Hypertextisthereforeusuallynonlinear. linear HyperMedia isnotconstrainedtobetextbased.Itcaninclude

other th media, di e.g.,graphics, hi images, i and despecially i ll the th continuousmedia soundandvideo. Acombinationofhypertext,graphics,audio,video,(linked elements)andinteractivityculminatinginacomplete,non linearcomputerbasedexperience.

 Hyper Media
1. 2. 3.

Example
Main Page Video link Image link Audio Link

CharacteristicsofaMultimediaSystem AMultimediasystemhasfourbasiccharacteristics: Multimediasystemsmustbecomputer controlled. Multimediasystemsareintegrated. Theinformationtheyhandlemustberepresented digitally. Theinterfacetothefinalpresentationofmediais usuallyinteractive.

ChallengesforMultimediaSystems
Sequencingwithinthemedia Synchronisation

DesirableFeaturesforaMultimedia S t System
VeryHighProcessingPower MultimediaCapableFileSystem DataRepresentations/File p Formatsthatsupport pp multimedia EfficientandHighI/O SpecialOperatingSystem StorageandMemory NetworkSupport SoftwareTools

ComponentsofaMultimediaSystem
Capturedevices
VideoCamera,VideoRecorder,AudioMicrophone,Keyboards, mice,graphicstablets,3Dinputdevices,tactilesensors,VRdevices. Digitising/SamplingHardware

StorageDevices
Harddisks,CDROMs,Jaz/Zipdrives,DVD,etc

CommunicationNetworks
Ethernet,TokenRing,FDDI,ATM,Intranets,Internets.

ComputerSystems
Multimedia M lti di D Desktop kt machines, hi Workstations, W k t ti MPEG/VIDEO/DSP Hardware

DisplayDevices
CDqualityspeakers, speakers HDTV,SVGA, HDTV SVGA HiResmonitors, monitors Colourprinters etc.
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Applications

WorldWideWeb Hypermedia yp courseware Videoconferencing Videoondemand InteractiveTV Homeshopping Games Virtualreality Digitalvideoeditingandproductionsystems MultimediaDatabasesystems y
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TrendsinMultimedia
WorldWideWeb MBone EnablingTechnologies

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MultimediaSoftware
Familiar Tools Multimedia Authoring

Tools

Elemental Tools

FamiliarTools
Word Processors Spreadsheets Databases

Presentation Tools

MultimediaAuthoringTools
A multimedia authoring tool enables you o to create a final application merely by linking together objects, such as a paragraph of text, an illustration, or a song. They are used exclusively for applications that present a mixture of textual, graphical, and audio data.

TypesOfAuthoringTools
Card- or Page-based Tools Icon-based Tools Time-based Tools

Card orPagebasedTools
In these authoring systems, elements are organized as pages of a book or stack of cards. The authoring system lets you link these pages or cards into organized sequence and d th they also l allow ll you to t play sound elements and launch animations and digital videos. Page based authoring systems Page-based are object-oriented: the objects are the buttons, graphics and etc. Each object may y contain a p programming g g script i activated i when an event related to that object occurs. EX: Visual Basic

IconbasedAuthoringTools
Icon-based, event-driven tools provide pro ide a visual is al programming approach to organizing and presenting multimedia. First you build the flowchart of events tasks and decisions by events, using appropriate icons from a library. These icons can include menu choices, graphic images and sounds sounds. When the flowchart is built, you can add your content: text, graphics, animations, sounds and video movies. movies EX: Authoware Professional

TimebasedAuthoringTools
Time-based authoring tools are the most common of multimedia authoring tools. In these authoring systems, elements are organized along a time line. They are the best to use when you have message with the beginning and an end. Sequentially organized graphic frames are played back at the speed that you can set set. Other elements (such as audio events) are triggered at the given time or location in the sequence of events. EX: Animation Works Interactive

ElementalTools
Elemental tools help us work with the important basic elements of your project: sound, j t its it graphics, hi images, i d text t t and d moving i pictures. i t Elemental tools includes:

Painting And Drawing Tools Cad And 3-D Drawing Tools Image Editing Tools OCR Software Sound Editing Programs Tools For Creating Animations And Digital Movies Helpful Accessories