08 1 2915 Introduction to Multimedia Technology www jma duq

08/1/2915 Introduction to Multimedia Technology www. jma. duq. edu/classes/shepherd/jma 501 College Hall 205

JMA 501 – Instructor/GA l Dr. John Shepherd ( a. k. a. Shep, John) l Associate Professor in JMA. l l Founder of the Grad/Undergrad Multimedia majors (1995 and 2001) BS Management Science, from CMU, Ph. D. Operations Research and Systems Management. Pitt, Information Technology Masters Duquesne Office – 529 COLH l Office hours – MW 1: 00 -2: 00, 3: 00 -4: 00 and by Appointment l Phone – 412 – 396 -5772 l E-mail – shepherd@duq. edu l GA: Courtney Downing

Background l 10 years as IT professional, with small company…Boss, secretary, me. . adjunct hired me – Clients: Steelers, Penguins l IUP for 10 years teaching IT courses l Duquesne for many years SOB (IT courses), Rangos ( Health Management Systems), College (was Chair) teach multimedia courses

Who are you: name, concentration, l Introduce self to people next to you

Schedule Course Syllabus/Schedule: www. jma. duq. edu/classes/shepherd/jma 501

Parent and child folders F 1 F 2 Parent of folder F 2 is Child of folder F 1, and a Parent of folder F 3 Child of folder F 2

User folder l l Aka network folder Aka Z: drive Inside the folder is a pub folder, where we store content to be made over the Internet. To access it, you must login to a server computer, which you already did

User Name and Password To connect to our network, and thus to your user folder (aka z: ) , from within either of our two labs (205 or 345) – Ctrl-Alt-Delete – – Username: Your Dori/Blackboard login name PW: Your Dori password Check for Z: drive (A shortcut to your user folder, which is on a computer at CTS) Check for pub folder (Its content is available via Internet)

JMA 501 – Course goals l l l Blend technology and applicable applications. Create websites that incorporate multimedia assets. Use HTML 5 and a Graphical User Interface application ; ( Content Management System ) to create interactive multimedia-based websites.

Goals…cont l • Create digital videos for playback on • • the Web or DVD Carry out Video compression Use Adobe’s Illustrator and Photoshop to create vector and raster graphics. Discuss sound: Its technology and use in a Web page Use Adobe Media Encoder to convert among sound and video formats

JMA 501 - Assignments • Due at the end of the day (11: 59 PM). • Late assignments receive a 10% per class penalty, maximum 30% • You may hand in assignments “late”. By one week. It’s because many of you work • After two weeks, can’t hand in assignments • Actual assignments on 501 class site • Use Blackboard to submit work: (1) Submit the URL (address) to your index. htm page or (2) the assignment URL… shepssite. weebly. com

Blackboard-submitting homework l l Login to Blackboard Find, then click Assignments button,

Assignments…

JMA 501 – Tools Adobe CC 2015 (Creative Cloud): • Buy : About $500 • Use labs ( 205, room 345 ) zero cost to you • Rent: • About $30/month, but needs 12 month commitment • Use Notepad for HTML

JMA 501 – Media Site http: //jma. msl. duq. edu/Mediasite/Catalog/catalogs/15 -spgart-jma-501 -61 -intro-multi-tech

JMA 501 – Applications Adobe Illustrator, vector graphicsresizable

MM 501 – Applications Photoshop: Image editing raster graphics

JMA 501 – Video l l Premiere Pro create videos for DVD and Web Encore to author DVDs with menus

JMA 501 – HTML Body of Web page

JMA 501 – Web WYSIWYG Web development : GUI • Graphical User Interface Weebly Content Management Systems

Parent and child folders F 1 F 2 Parent of folder F 2 Child of folder F 1, a Parent of folder F 3 Child of folder F 2

www. jma. duq. edu (Computer name) Your Space User folder– aka. Z: drive Must be in 205/345 Folder Files PUB Folder We created for you Files Folder Files

www. jma. duq. edu Your Space User folder All files for the Folder Web must File be in PUB File PUB Folder File

www. jma. duq. edu/users/Login. Name (Path to your users folder) Short cut—Z: – – It’s your private /network folder It’s a child of the users folder ( which is the parent folder):

Pub Folder l l l Only on Z: drive We created it Open Z: Should see the pub folder

How do I access my user folder from off-campus (Can also be used on-campus) – Use File Transfer Protocol Example: ftp: //www. jma. duq. edu/users/shepherd/ – You may be prompted for your user name and password – Best to enter the above command in the address bar of any application; except i. e. I use “Computer” application

How do I access ourserver: FTP • Like http: , FTP is a protocol --a set of rules -If prompted for your user name and password – Use your Dori login information • Open Computer icon • Enter:

Credentials

Adding a JMA 501 folder inside Pub folder Path to pub: www. jma. duq. edu/users/Login. Name/pub l Double-click your Z: drive This places you inside users/Yourlogin. Name folder l l Browse to pub Right-click in a white area Choose Create>New folder Name it JMA 501

Browser URLs (Uniform Resource Locator) Note: Index. htm is special file …what’s special? l The URL (path) to a page in your web site (in pub). depends on how you structured your folders l URL= Universal Resource Locator Example http: //www. jma. duq. edu/users/shepherd/pub/JMA 501/File. Name. htm l l Assuming your file name is index. htm in the JMA 501 folder the address would be: http: //www. jma. duq. edu/users/shepherd/pub/jma 501 – Can do away with http, and index. htm …why? www. jma. duq. edu/users/shepherd/pub/jma 501

Changing the way folders display Experiment with the options

What to NOT show Also, don’t hide extensions

Room Access You should have access to room 205, 345 and the building. Use handicapped button on building entrance

Index cards – – l Name Major/track Knowledge (1 -10) of : – – – HTML, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Illustrator Premiere/DVD Creation

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