Format of multimedia and hard-copy
teaching materials
Format of multimedia and
hard-copy teaching materials
Dr. Flavio Melcarne
Coordinamento SIBA
Ed. “Studium 2000”
Via di Valesio
73100 – Lecce, Italy
http://siba2.unile.it; siba@siba2.unile.it
English version: George Metcalf
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Format of multimedia and hard-copy
teaching materials
List of contents
 Types of file and relative formats:
– text
– images
– audio
– video
 Configuration of the servers:
– Eco-Governance site
– e-learning portal
– post-graduate qualification in Eco-Governance
– audio/video streaming
– members only area (upload)
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Format of multimedia and hard-copy
teaching materials
Text file formats: slides (.ppt)
 Background: Eco-Governance Image

Character font, size and colour for the title:
Verdana bold, 24 pt., white
 Character font, size and colour for the body of the text:
Verdana, 20 pt. – min. 18 pt., white
 Character font, size and colour for notes (where applicable):
Verdana, 14 pt., black

Single-concept slides
 No animations
 Max number of objects (graphics/formulae/tables/images) per
slide: 2
 Slides per hour: 20-40
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Format of multimedia and hard-copy
teaching materials
Formats of image files for slides
 GIF (Graphic Interchange Format): format suitable for
images with a maximum of 256 colours (flat colours
without shading), e.g. graphics, formulae, tables,
icons.
 JPG (Joint Photographic Experts Group): format
suitable for images of photographic quality requiring
thousands or millions of colours and shades.
Limit the size of the images.
Stick to a maximum of 640x480 pixels, respecting the
proportions, with a maximum resolution of 72
pixels/inch
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Format of multimedia and hard-copy
teaching materials
Tex filter for the conversion of formulae to GIF
Service activated by
SIBA on the MOODLE
platform of the ELearning server
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Format of multimedia and hard-copy
teaching materials
Text file formats: documents (.pdf)
documents (.rtf)
images (.tiff)
pre-defined model
for paging
documents
document (.pdf)
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Format of multimedia and hard-copy
teaching materials
The frame on the left
contains a list of the
objects and functions
of the InDesign
software to be used
when formatting a
document
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Format of multimedia and hard-copy
teaching materials
Text file formats: documents (.rtf)
 Character font, size and colour for the title:
Arial, 14 pt., black
 Character font, size and colour for the subheading:
Times New Roman, 11 pt., black
 Character font, size and colour for paragraph headings:
Times New Roman, 12 pt., bold, black
 Character font, size and colour for the body of the text:
Times New Roman, 12 pt., black
 Character font, size and colour for figure captions:
Times New Roman, 10 pt., black
 No macros
 Objects (graphics/formulae/tables/images) must also be
supplied separately as TIFF files
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Format of multimedia and hard-copy
teaching materials
Formats of image files per documents (.tif)
TIFF (Tag Image File Format): is the most commonly
used format in the field of printing because it entails
no loss of data and is universally recognised.
It is a flexible and reliable method for memorising
bitmap images in black and white, grey scale, colour
scale, RGB, CMYK.
It can be saved with or without compression.
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Format of multimedia and hard-copy
teaching materials
Draft
Title
Sub-heading
Body of the text
Paragraph heading
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Format of multimedia and hard-copy
teaching materials
Audio file formats (.mp3)
MP3 with a bitrate of 128Kb (MPEG-1/2 Audio Layer 3 with
compression at 128 Kbit/s) is an audio compression algorithm to
be able to drastically reduce the quantity of data required to
reproduce a sound, while maintaining its fidelity to the noncompressed original.
This technology makes it possible to reduce audio files to one
twelfth of their original size.
E.g., a file containing 5 minutes of stereo music (two channels, 16
bits, 44,100 MHz) can be reduced from 60 MB in the original to
just 5 MB as an MP3 file, maintaining nearly the same quality as
an audio CD.
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Format of multimedia and hard-copy
teaching materials
Video file formats
 ANALOGICAL:
–VHS/VHS-C
–SVHS/SVHS-C
–Video 8/Video 8 Hi
–Betamax
 DIGITAL:
–DV/MiniDV
–MicroMV
–Digital 8
–DVD CAM
–DVCPRO
–DVCam
–Digital-S
–D-VHS
WMF
RM
coding and
compression
QT
 MPEG4 (H264 100Kbit/s)
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