Fundamentals of Multimedia Applications (Second Edition)

Author: Liu Gan-na, Zhu Wen-sheng, Fu Xian-ping
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Publishing Date: 1998-04-08
Features: This book is a research outcome of the Ministry of Education's "Reform Plan for Teaching Content and Curriculum Systems in Higher Education Towards the 21st Century," serving as a curriculum textbook for the 21st century. It is also a textbook organized by the Teaching Guidance Committee of Computer Foundation Courses in Engineering, part of the Ministry of Education's "Nineth Five-Year Plan." From an applied perspective, the book comprehensively covers the fundamental knowledge of multimedia applications and multimedia application design techniques. It primarily includes:
- Basic knowledge of multimedia
- Hardware and software support environments required for multimedia applications
- Methods for collecting multimedia data such as sound, images, and video
- Usage of common software, such as Photoshop, Animator Studio, Premiere, and 3DS MAX
- Principles of multimedia application design
- Typical multimedia/supimedia creation tools and their applications, such as Authorware and ToolBook
- Visual Basic multimedia application design
The book does not delve deeply into the theory of multimedia technology but focuses on application development and production methods. Due to the advancement of multimedia technology and software updates, this edition has been revised based on the previous version, with the system platform entirely updated to Windows 95/98. It has also added content on network multimedia and includes multimedia network teaching courseware. The revised content better reflects the current state of multimedia technology development.
This book can serve as a textbook for multimedia application courses in non-computer majors at universities and colleges, as well as a learning and reference resource for technical personnel engaged in multimedia application development. A multimedia CD-ROM is included with the book for teaching and self-study purposes.