Customer Reviews

QuickTime Pro 4 for Macintosh and Windows, Second Edition (Visual QuickStart Guide)

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I'm a loyal customer of the Visual Quickstart Guide series, and this book was up to their usual high standards. It gets straight to the point, takes you well beyond the basics, and reveals the power of this technology with both clearly written step-by-step instructions and strategically chosen screen shots on every page. A must for anyone that purchased a QuickTime Pro upgrade.

Excellent overview of Quicktime. This has info you would spend hours looking for elsewhere. My favorite section was the explanation of the different compression options, but all sections are helpful for editing, digitizing, and saving QT movies and audio.

If you're a QT user, don't forget to buy this book. This book is packed with useful hints and tricks. It's surely going to be useful to you someday.

Remember to buy some other books about general video compression theories, MPEG encoding, color theories ... so you'll handle codecs better. This book is not the whole thing.

Step one of the section "Creating Video Tracks from A Sequence of Still Images" states: "give each still-image file a common name with a sequential number appended to it (for example, picture1, picture2, picture3). Then place all of the files in the same folder." This is a great book for QTPro beginners, explains everything very clearly. I believe the poor review was due to lack of concentration not error on the part of the writers.

As webmaster to a site with over 100 quicktime VR panoramas & QuickTime digital media - this book was a MUST HAVE! It gave me all the information I needed to go beneath the surface and unlock the powerful features that QuickTime has to offer. If you want to create & deliver cutting edge media with all the bells and whistles. . . . BUY THIS BOOK! Luke - webmaster virtual bakersfield.com

Although I didn't pay for it.. we have this book at work. I've never read any of the Visual QuickStart (sounds like a Microsoft product!) books before, hope they're not all like this. Quicktime Pro isn't exactly rocket science as it stands, so a book is going to have to have some good information in it to make it worth.

I give you an example - "Creating Video from Many Images. 1. From the file menu, choose Open Image Sequence. 2. In Open dialog box, locate and select any one of the sequentially named files and click Open." etc. etc. As I said, QTPro isn't rocket science. I followed this guide and had a problem. I clicked on the sequentially named files and it wouldn't load more than 2 images. Why? The book didn't give me any clues. I found out from trial and error, it's dependant on file names. Sorry, but this book is pointless. It's like a 360 page book on the DIR command.