Production and Use of Computer Media Materials

Author: Yu Deyong
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Publish Date: 2002-05-01
Features: The book selects various popular tools and software for multimedia material acquisition, creation, processing, and integration, combining theory with examples to provide detailed explanations. It can serve as a training textbook for college teachers with a certain foundation in computer applications to design and create multimedia teaching courseware. The writing approach follows the sequence of multimedia material acquisition and creation — multimedia material processing — multimedia courseware design — multimedia material integration, covering the entire process of teaching courseware production. The book employs common tools and software, selecting SnagIt, CorelDRAW, and Photoshop for graphic and image acquisition, creation, and processing; recording software, Super Video CD, and Premiere for audio and video acquisition and processing; Flash, the most popular tool for 2D animation creation; 3DSMAX for 3D animation creation; Authorware for multimedia material integration; and Dreamweaver for web page creation. The book mainly introduces the following content: how to acquire, create, and process various multimedia materials (including graphics, images, animations, videos, and audio) required in teaching courseware production; how to use appropriate tools to integrate acquired multimedia materials into teaching courseware; an introduction to streaming media technology and an elaboration on the theory of multimedia teaching courseware design.