QuickTime for the Web: For Windows and Macintosh (With CD-ROM) [Paperback]

Apple (Author), Apple Computer (Author), Steven Gulie (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1558607803 | ISBN-13: 978-1558607804 | Publication Date: November 15, 2001 | Edition: 2nd

QuickTime is the industry standard for creating and distributing multimedia content on the Web. This book includes QuickTime Pro 5 and a full set of development tools for both Windows and Macintosh. Like the best-selling and award-winning QuickTime for the Web, this second edition is a hands-on guide showing how to integrate video, recorded sound, Flash animation, virtual reality, MIDI, text, still images, live streams, games, and user interactivity into a website.

Written for webmasters, site designers, HTML and multimedia authors and instructors, and anyone else--beginner or expert--who wants to incorporate sound or video into their website, this book offers clear and detailed instruction in an engaging style. This is the most complete and authoritative source for creating QuickTime content and putting it on the Web. The first edition has been selected as a textbook for several college-level multimedia courses.

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 5 (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 Windows (95/98/NT/2000) and Mac OS. The CD-ROM also includes a variety of tools for creating and editing movies, along with cut-and-paste HTML and JavaScript examples.

* written for both Windows and Macintosh developers
* illustrates all the latest features in QuickTime Pro 5, including media skins and cubic VR
* includes a CD-ROM with QuickTime Pro 5 and a demo copy of LiveStage Pro
* offers $100 off full version of LiveStage Pro from Totally Hip Software
* includes free tools for creating and editing QuickTime movies and VR panoramas
* covers the ActiveX control for QuickTime

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

There is far more to Apple's QuickTime than a movie that plays on your computer--it is an entire technology whose rich features go largely untapped. In this second edition of QuickTime for the Web, the QuickTime gurus at Apple lay bare the inside tricks, hidden features, and underlying structure of this dynamic media tool.

This book will prove useful to anyone using QuickTime as a presentation tool, regardless of their method of delivery. Although titled QuickTime for the Web, it describes features that go far beyond the Web. The interactive section is the highlight of this book. It describes how to build custom interfaces (skins) for your movie, how to connect your movie or interface elements to the Web, how to add and edit an array of tracks such as text and Flash tracks, and how to add interactive audio.

However, this is not the only chapter worth reading--far from it. From the very beginning, each and every page offers some tip or describes a feature that one could learn to make use of. Need to know how to convert PowerPoint presentations into interactive QuickTime movies? Page 241. Need the HTML code to detect QuickTime before loading a movie? Page 113. Don't know the difference between streaming and nonstreaming? There's a chapter devoted to mixing the two and demonstrating how they can each be used to their fullest.

QuickTime has much to offer and many of the underlying features are very easy to use. This is an important and informative book, and an invaluable reference for anyone who works seriously with QuickTime and uses it as a presentation tool. --Mike Caputo

From Library Journal

This comprehensive resource covers every aspect of working with QuickTime, from creating and posting simple movies to making virtual reality panoramas and interactive 3-D object movies. The accompanying CD includes several multimedia trials as well as the full version of QuickTime Pro 5 (the free, downloadable Player lacks Pro's editing features); it also uses QuickTime tools to demonstrate book examples. Larger public and college libraries supporting multimedia programs should purchase even if they own the first edition because QuickTime 5's new features are discussed.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 850 pages
• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann; 2nd edition (November 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1558607803
• ISBN-13: 978-1558607804
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,560,642 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #87 in Books > Computers & Technology > Apple > Mac Administration

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22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars QuickTime for the Web review, May 11, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: QuickTime for Web and CDROM (QuickTime Developer Series) (Paperback)

QuickTime for the Web is a hands-on, how-to guide for working with QuickTime (Apple's software architecture for multimedia content creation and delivery) and the web. It shows how to embed QuickTime movies on web pages and configure the playback of those movies to achieve any of a number of special effects. If you are working with web pages and want to make use of sounds, video, text, still images, or any other other kinds of media that QuickTime supports, you should buy and read this book.

The book is chock full of information, but it's anything but a dry presentation. The author is witty, precise, and instructive. He approaches the subject in a way that presumes very little prior acquaintance with either QuickTime or HTML. Little by little, he teaches us how to do some amazing things.

If you are a web page designer, a webmaster, or an HTML author, this book belongs close at hand in your office!

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An holistic resource, July 11, 2000

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Rayhawk Corporation "rayhawk.com" (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: QuickTime for Web and CDROM (QuickTime Developer Series) (Paperback)

This is an important resource for anyone who is serious about maximizing the potential of Quicktime. At Rayhawk.com we have been using this book to enhance our web productions and the results have been noticable, not only to us, but to our clients (KFC, Taco Bell, BMW, Porsche).

The book is full of useful info and the author is fun and helpful. He assumes we have little prior knowledge with either QuickTime or HTML and by the end of the book, he teaches us how to produce some amazing content.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Rare Find in the World of Computer Books!, January 8, 2001

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Michael P. Davis "DigitalSage" (Arizona, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: QuickTime for Web and CDROM (QuickTime Developer Series) (Paperback)

This book is a must have if you plan on working with QuickTime to make multimedia content available! I call this book 'a rare find', as it is great for beginner through master, leaving few questions unanswered or stones unturned. The text is a good mix of "how to" information combined with "tips and tricks" to get your implementations to work.

I purchased this book for its material regarding steaming content over the Internet, and learned a great deal in the process. The chapter on QuickTime VR answered my "how do they do that?" questions, and has led me to explore the use of this technique for my upcoming projects.

The QuickTime VR chapter is a good example of the depth of knowledge used to develop this text, as it gives in-depth information on photography techniques that only a mid- to experienced photographer would know.

My only criticism of the book is that it only begins to explore about half of the knowledge needed to set up your own streaming web server, but I can hardly fault the authors for that -- it says right on the cover "A Hands-On Guide for Webmasters, Site Designers, and HTML Authors." It says nothing about being aimed at System or Network Administrators. If your main interest in this book is the setup of streaming servers, you might want to consider another book (or better yet, purchase this book along with another to round out your knowledge).

With the ... QuickTime Pro included, I can say without reservation that this is one of the best computer book values I have ever purchased. The book paid for the rest of the cost by showing me how to trick Microsoft Internet Explorer / Windows Media Player in such a way that it will not try to open your .mov files (great in a Windows-dominated environment)!

Highly recommended, even if you have only a passing interest in QuickTime.