Hosting Quicktime Movies
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QuickTime Toolkit $75.95 “Buried inside QuickTime are a host of powerful tools for creating, delivering, and playing digital media. The official QuickTime documentation explains ‘what’ each API function does. But knowing what each function does isn’t enough to allow a developer to take full advantage of QuickTime. QuickTime Toolkit fills in the gap—providing plenty of practical examples of ‘how’ to use QuickTime to perform all kinds of useful tasks. More importantly, [this book] goes beyond ‘how’ and into ‘why’ —providing readers with a deeper understanding of QuickTime and how to benefit from using it in their own products.” —Peter Hoddie, cofounder of Kinoma and former QuickTime architect QuickTime Toolkit, Volume Two continues the step-by-step investigation of programming QuickTime, the elegant and powerful media engine used by many of Apple’s industry-leading services and products (such as the iTunes music store, iMovie, and Final Cut Pro) and also used by a large number of third-party applications. This second collection of articles from the author’s highly regarded column in MacTech Magazine builds upon the discussion of playback techniques and media types presented in the first volume to cover advanced types of QuickTime media data, including video effects, Flash tracks, and skins. It shows how to capture audio and video data, broadcast that data to remote computers, play movies full screen, and load movies asynchronously. QuickTime Toolkit Volume Two also shows how to integrate Carbon events into your Macintosh application and how to work with Macintosh resources in your Windows application. Part of the official QuickTime Developer Series , publishing the finest books on QuickTime in cooperation with Apple. *Includes a CD-ROM with numerous code examples in C to help you get started with your own applications *Written by one of Apple’s premier media engineers skilled in revealing QuickTime’s sophisticated technology to programmers *Offers many undocumented insider tips for making applications that work well in both Mac OS and Windows |
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Interactive QuickTime $71.95 Interactivity is one of the most captivating topics for today’s online community. It is a fast-growing field pushed by the rapid development and dispersion of Java, Shockwave, Flash, and QuickTime. While several good books are available about the interactive capabilities of Java, Shockwave, and Flash, until now there hasn’t been a book about QuickTime interactivity. A logical follow-up to QuickTime for the Web , this eagerly awaited book by Matthew Peterson details the power of QuickTime’s wired media technology and provides a resource for professionals developing and deploying interactive QuickTime content. This content can extend far beyond simple moviesit can act as application user interfaces, educational multimedia, scientific display panels, musical instruments, games and puzzles, etc., and can interact with you, your browser, a server, or with other movies. *Describes concepts and techniques of interactivity applicable to technologies beyond QuickTimeincluding Flash. *Features real-world, hands-on projects of progressive sophistication allowing developers to start with a project appropriate to their own level of QuickTime experience. *A companion CD-ROM contains the book’s source code, tutorials, and demo software, including a demo version of Live Stage Pro (with a discount offer for the full version). |
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QuickTime for the Web $59.95 QuickTime is the industry standard for developing and distributing multimedia content on the Web and CD-ROM, for both Windows and Macintosh computers. This book includes QuickTime Pro 6 and a full set of content development tools for both Windows and Macintosh developers. This third edition of the best-selling and award-winning QuickTime for the Web is a hands-on guide showing how to integrate animation, video, recorded sound, MIDI, text, still images, VR, live streams, games, and user interactivity into a Web site. It now also covers how to benefit from QuickTime support for the MPEG-4 global multimedia standard. Written for Web masters, site designers, HTML and multimedia authors, and anyone else who wants to incorporate sound or video into their Web site, this book offers clear and detailed instruction in an engaging style. Written by an expert at Apple Computer, this is the most complete and authoritative source for creating QuickTime content for the Web. The first edition of this book won the Touchstone 2000 Merit Award for Books awarded annually by STC (Society for Technical Communications). About the CD-ROM The accompanying CD-ROM contains the full version of QuickTime Pro 6 (a $29.99 value) for Windows and Macintosh. Its powerful, extensible software architecture lets you deliver state-of-the-art digital content over the Web or on CD-ROM. It works equally well on current versions of Windows and Mac OS. The CD-ROM also includes a free tools for creating and editing movies, cut-and-paste HTML and JavaScript examples, royalty-free audio, and prebuilt interactive sprites. *Written for both Windows and Macintosh developers. *Illustrates all the latest features in QuickTime Pro 6, including MPEG-4 support. *Includes a CD-ROM with the full version of QuickTime Pro 6 (a $29.99 value) for Windows and Macintosh, and free tools for creating and editing movies, cut-and-paste HTML and JavaScript examples, royalty-free audio, prebuilt interactive sprites, and a demo copy of LiveStage Pro with a special offer for $100 off from Totally Hip Software. *Includes a skinned player for streaming MPEG-4 (with ACC audiosuperior to MP3) of the hit band Wilco recorded live. |
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QuickTime for Filmmakers $54.95 Over the decades, distribution has remained the most elusive aspect of filmmaking. The Web provides filmmakers with a new option for distribution, exhibition, and broadcast. While other media streaming technologies are available, QuickTime remains the most popular option for its versatility, excellent quality, and ease of use. QuickTime for Filmmakers shows filmmakers and videographers how to utilize this industry standard tool and offers advice on how best to shoot a film for Internet delivery. Other topics include: Editing and converting video, adding and editing soundtracks and using text in QT movies, compressing media, and preparing movies for http and RTSP streaming or a combination of both. A chapter on virtual reality explores QuickTime’s unique feature for creating 360 panoramas, immersive cubic VR, object movies and VR scenes. A companion CD-ROM demonstrates topics covered in the book and provides samples of film prepared for web delivery. *Details the most powerful and popular streaming software available. *Focuses on the needs and concerns of the filmmaker and videographer. *Companion CD-ROM demonstrates techniques covered in the book and provides samples of film prepared for web delivery. |
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Apple Logic Express 7 [OLDER VERSION] $299.99 Logic Express 7 lets you create fantastic, professional music in a full-featured virtual studio. Produce great demos of your band, make new music with a full range of loops and record effortlessly. A rich feature set for both music and audio production and a complete library of samples give you more room to be creative. Advanced synthesizer tools feature precise control on every single shade of th… |
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