Product Description

QuickTime - far more that just watching movies

Why just watch when you can interact? With the future of interactive media expanding all around us it's good to know that you can realize the projects you have in mind and get them out into the world.

Interactive media makers can learn how to harness the power of QuickTime, web designers can unleash powerful time-based media. Filmmakers can immerse themselves in the digital future.

With the release of the new version six QuickTime is set to move even further ahead of the competition. But of course you can just watch!

DVision from friends of ED deliver to you the CREED philosophy of digital filmmaking: Create, Realize, Edit, Enhance, Deliver. DVision will guide you all the way from the germ of an idea to outputting your creation to DVD, the Web or the format of your choice.

Synopsis

QuickTime is so much more than a software tool or a media format, it's open architecture and standard-embracing technology mean that it will continue to be a the forefront of digital media. This book takes the reader through the whole spectrum of QuickTime's use, from streaming video across networks, interactivity, virtual reality and even it's role in DVD authoring.

This includes planning your projects, creating your QuickTime content, how QuickTime interacts with other products including Macromedia Flash & Director and the best ways to get QuickTime media to your audience.

The CD-ROM includes a wealth of support materials and example projects and also a trial version of Totally Hip Software's LiveStage Professional for both PC and Mac.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2178395 in Books
• Published on: 2002-04
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 500 pages

From the Publisher
QuickTime Professional is Apple's product for the development and creation of time-based media. It's affordable, powerful, expandable and completely cross-platform - meaning that no-one need feel excluded from our brave new interactive world.

Customer Reviews

A Comprehensive Refrence for Quicktime Media Format
I was one of the people in the role of technical reviewer for Revolutionary Quicktime Pro 5 & 6. I can recommend it as a comprehensive and sophisticated reference for Apples Quicktime format. It describes in depth the tools you use from capture to deployment of your Quicktime media content. It covers QuickTime's integration with a broad range of media types and the expansive methods of deployment for your Quicktime media.

Most importantly it discusses the Quicktime format in relation to the content creators needs including information for the linear filmmaker to the interactive media designer. It is an in-depth resource for any designer looking to author interactive media, QTVR, DVD or Streaming QuickTime. Each chapter also includes some excellent tutorials especially for those interested in pushing QuickTime's level of interactivity. The section on tools is particularly relevant because of the amount of software, which supports QuickTime, and this is a guide to how the developer might choose tools and resources for their particular project.

Words from the Experts!
Wow. After seeing the author list for this book, I had to get a copy. You don't have to spend much time at industry events like Apple's QuickTime Live before you'll run into several of them, lecturing to the assembled. Turns out they're not just nice people who know QuickTime intimately well, they're also great authors!

This book is a solid introduction to the underpinnings of QuickTime and many of the applications empowered by its multimedia abilities. While other books, such as Steven Gulie's QuickTime for the Web or the QuickTime Developers Series might offer more focused explorations of certain complex areas of QuickTime, no book I've found provides as good an overview of the technology - and it's use in the real world - than this book. If you're new to QuickTime and wondering what it can do, this book will be an eye opener. And it'll make you laugh too.

Great book about QTVR and digital movies
I used this book to figure out how to make QTVR panoramas and digital movies - has some great examples and useful files on the CD. Lots of great tips and tricks, I recommend it.