Customer Reviews

The QuickTime VR Book : Creating Immersive Imaging on Your Desktop

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4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(1)
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Quicktime VR expands on the user manual that comes with Quicktime Authoring Studio, and explains a lot of information that isn't clearly explained in the manual. For that reason, it is worth buying. I would have liked to have had more explanation about Quicktime VR and less about other programs that aren't Quicktime VR. I was also disappointed it didn't explain anything about resolution.. how to make high and low resolution QTVRs. The writer seemed to assume I knew how and mentioned that high resolution movies are larger... It also didn't explain what to do when you get that "tiling error" when you're asked to resize your image. All in all, the best book around for Quicktime VR (oh yeah, as far as I know, it's the only one).

It is a comprehensive book for QuickTime VR. It can explains every details about QuickTime VR. From the paranomic movie to object movie, you can get what you need to know, such as the operation of these movies, and also fundamental things about QuickTime VR. This book also introduces some software for making these movies. However, you should not expect too much on this book will teach you how to use these software. Anyway, it is a good start for learning QuickTime VR.

This book is nicely designed and has some interesting examples in it. It may be useful to those looking for some possible applications of QTVR, but the book is very light on the "how to" aspect of the software itself. If you're expecting in-depth coverage of Apple's QTVR Authoring Studio software, you will probably be disapointed. On the other hand, there are few (if any) other books available about QTVR, so in that regard, this book is worth having for what information it does provide.

As someone who has struggled through many questions about the world of QTVR, I found this book to be informative, enlightening and reassuring. I learned some new techniques, confirmed current processes and got a handy tip or two, all in a casual, reliable and readable style. Kitchens has made creating, editing, packing and shipping QTVRs easier with this one-stop approach. For now (until someone like me writes one) this is the definitive book on QTVR. Well done!

It's well-organized, imformative with some so-to-understand diagrams. I feel lucky to have this book when I am just about to explore the world of QTVR.

This book gives a great introduction to QTVR, but in my opinion it falls short on implementation detail. By covering a plethora of authoring tools, none of the tools or techniques is explored in-depth. There are some good nuggets here, and the book is well-written, but experienced QTVR artists may find that it doesn't go far enough.

Way to general. I question if the person who wrote this book uses QTVR. I feel I was ripped. This was on backorder, I waited and now I have to go out and get another book to so I can acutal learn something. This is a great book if you have a table with one leg a half inch shorter then the rest. The fact that others gave this 5 stars makes me think the author has many friends and relatives.

I find that it is a comprehensive book about QuickTime VR. However, the book does not explain how to use the software in-depth. Anyway, it is still a good choice for studying what is QuickTime VR