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ITNP80 - Multimedia

Spring 2013
ITNP80 Syllabus (PDF) | Schedule (PDF)
Co-ordinator: Prof Amir Hussain (ahu@cs.stir.ac.uk)

Teaching Assistant: Dr. Andrew Abel (aka@cs.stir.ac.uk)

Please visit this site regularly to check for new and updated information.

This page describes the day-time version of ITNP80 for Spring 2013.

Notes

 

 

Week

Lecture1/Tutorial

 

Lecture2/Tutorial

 

Lecture3/Tutorial

 

Practical

 

(Place)

(2V3)

 

(2B45)

 

(2B42)

 

(4X5)

 

(Time)

(Tue 12noon)

 

(Tues 4PM)

 

     (Thurs 11AM)

 

(Tues 2pm)

 

11-Feb

 

 

-

 

 

 

 

 

18-Feb

Intro/Graphics 1

(Lecture 1)

A

Graphics2

A

 

 

 

 

25-Feb

Colour

A

Graphical Data Compression/

File Formats

A

-

 

Photoshop

A

4-Mar

Sound 1

A

File Formats

(Tutorial 1)

A

-

Photoshop

A

11-Mar

MM Intro /

MM Tools 1

A

MM Design 1

A

-

 

Flash

A

18-Mar

 

MM Design 2

A

MM Tools 2

A

-

 

 

Flash

A

25-Mar

Sound 2

A

Sound 3

A

-

 

Sound

 A

1-Apr

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8-Apr

Animation 

A

MM  Design (Tutorial 2)

A

-

Animation

A

15-Apr

-

-

-

-

-

 

Assignment support

A

22-Apr

-

-

-

-

-

Java

A

29-Apr

Sound Tutorial (Tutorial3)

A

-

-

-

-

 

Exam: 1.5 Hrs: 2 questions out of 3

 

A= Amir Hussain/Andrew Abel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Reference

Textbooks

Recommended

Links/Resources

Some references

Graphics (Colour, other practical graphics information)

Sound and Sound Samples.

This section provides links to some sound resources. There are sounds. These come in two forms: plain old monaural, and rather specially recorded binaural stereo. And there are some links to other interesting pages.

Monaural

There are some recorded sounds (you can save them to your own filespace by right-clicking on each link and selecting "Save Link As..."):

Binaural

The Division has a nice setup (in 4B65) for recording binaurally. This equipment (which actually belongs to Stirling Hearing Systems) consists of a skull (from a medical supplier: made of hard plastic, but otherwise biologically accurate) covered with Latex (by Manchester University), and mounted on a model torso.

With this we have recorded some simple binaural sounds. Listened to with headphones, these give a much more powerful illusion of direction and location than standard stereo recordings.

Raw versus MP3 Recordings

Compare the following two recordings, one in raw CD quality sound format and the second MP3 compressed format:

Multimedia authoring

Information from outwith the ITNP80 website

HCI

Software

Sound

If you have any favourite links of your own that you think would be useful, please do let me know and I would be happy to add them. Thanks.

Trial and Free Software

There is software available for installing on your own PC:

\\Shilling\Student\CD:

freely available versions of many software packages (available on CD too, from the Computing Support Group in 4B81)

\\Shilling\Student\Trial:

trial versions of commercial software packages, including Adobe Director. BUT please note that the demo of Director is time-limited to 30 days!

Scanning

To use the scanner in 4X7, firstly make sure the scanner is turned on! Then do one of the following:

To run the scanner software from Photoshop:

  1. Run Adobe Photoshop
  2. From within Photoshop select, File->Import->TWAIN_32.... The TWAIN scanning window will appear.
  3. Set required Image Type and Destination Type
  4. Click the Preview button to preview the scanned image
  5. Click and drag on the preview to select the area you really want (if not the whole image) and preview this area by clicking the right-hand preview button (with the dashed box on it)
  6. Use the various image controls to adjust the colour etc in the scan
  7. When you are satisfied with what you see, click Scan
  8. Your scanned image appears in a new window.
  9. Keep scanning new images until you are done, then click Close in the scanning window.
  10. Now you can edit and save your scanned images in Photoshop. Remember to save your images to files in YOUR file space and in an appropriate format (e.g. GIF for simple drawings and JPEG for photos, usually).

To run the scanner software directly:

  1. Start->Programs->EPSON Scanner->EPSON Scan!1132
  2. File->Acquire...
  3. Set required Image Type and Destination Type
  4. Click the Preview button to preview the scanned image
  5. Click and drag on the preview to select the area you really want (if not the whole image) and preview this area by clicking the right-hand preview button (with the dashed box on it)
  6. Use the various image controls to adjust the colour etc in the scan
  7. When you are satisfied with what you see, click Scan
  8. Your scanned image appears in a new window. Save it by choosing File->Export... and saving it to a file in YOUR file space and with an appropriate format (e.g. GIF or JPEG usually).
  9. When exiting the scan program, DO NOT save any scanned images when asked (this would just save them in EPSON's proprietary format, which you will not generally need).

 

To follow any locked links from off campus, you may need to enter your username and password. If you think that you are entitled, but cannot gain access, then please contact the Co-ordinator.

For course material in an alternative format, please ask the Co-ordinator.

Last Modified: 29th APRIL 2013