Multimedia

Recommended Prerequisites

Familiarity with basic operating system tasks and experience with graphical interfaces. Knowledge of structured digital information management (file management, design and use of basic database models, spreadsheets, text editing programs, graphics and presentations). Familiarity with the Internet environment and its tools (search, online storage, sharing and communication, etc.)

 

Teaching Methods

Theoretical knowledge will be taught in classes by audiovisual exposure of the key issues covered in the Multimedia area included in the syllabus. These classes of more theoretical aspects will be interspersed in the normal teaching plan where appropriate for the practical approach to new areas and applications. The transmission of practical knowledge, necessary for the conduct or supervision of multimedia projects, will use concrete and practical examples and targeted exercises and will take place in computer rooms equipped with computers and appropriate applications.

Learning Outcomes

The final objective of the curricular unit is to provide students with the necessary knowledge to master an area as involving and actual as Multimedia. Specifically, it is expected that the student will master the areas of Multimedia Design, Multimedia Databases and Digital Editing of Multimedia Data (text, sound, image, video, ...) and know how to combine them conceptually, and in practice, using applications for the integrated development of Multimedia Systems (for the web, for interactive CDs, for the creation of digital presentations, etc.).

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Introduction to Multimedia:

  - Multimedia, Hypertext and Hypermedia;

  - Advantages and Disadvantages of using Multimedia Techniques;

  - Multimedia Applications.

Multimedia Data Types - Concepts, Formats, Use, Edition and Integration in Systems:

  - Text;

  - Still Images;

  - Sound;

  - Animation;

  - Video.

Multimedia Databases and Multimedia Systems Project:

  - Problem Discussion and Development Environments and Tools;

  - Collection of Content;

  - Property Rights;

  - Development Strategies.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Periodic or by final exam as given in the course information: 100.0%

Bibliography

Fundamentals of Multimedia (Texts in Computer Science) 3rd ed. 2021 Edition

by Ze-Nian Li (Author), Mark S. Drew (Author), Jiangchuan Liu (Author), Springer; 3rd ed. 2021

ALMEIDA, Luís Miguel Alçada Tomás de - Computadores e tecnologias da informação : uma introdução ao mundo digital. Coimbra : IDTec, 2003. [BP 519.6 ALM]

ALMEIDA, Luís Miguel Alçada Tomás de – Multimédia. Coimbra : FEUC, 1997. [BP 519.6 ALM]

DOMINE GIMP. MANUAL PRÁCTICO, Laura Raya González; Antonio Pérez Carrasco, RA-MA S.A. Editorial y Publicaciones (July 16, 2013)

The Book of Audacity: Record, Edit, Mix, and Master with the Free Audio Editor, by Carla Schroder, no starch press, San Francisco, 2011

https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tutorials.html (online oficial tutorials)

Microsoft Expression Web 4 Step by Step, by Chriss Leeds, Microsoft Press, 2011

RIBEIRO, Nuno Magalhães - Multimédia e tecnologias interativas. 5ª ed. act. e aumentada. Lisboa : FCA-E1