Quicktime 3 & Movieplayer Pro (Visual QuickStart Guide) [Paperback]

Judith L. Stern (Author), Robert Lettieri (Author)

Book Description

Series: Visual QuickStart Guide | Publication Date: August 21, 1998

QuickTime 3.0 is the latest version of the award winning digital publishing, authoring, and delivery format for personal computers and the Internet. The only format that supports over 35 of the leading digital content file formats, and is capable of integrating 3D animation, video, special-effects, text, sounds, virtual reality and streaming media on personal computers and the Internet, QuickTime has recently been selected by the International Standards Organization (ISO) as the basis for MPEG-4, the new version of QuickTime's only perceived competitor. MoviePlayer Pro is a new, richly featured and commercial version of the previously free software Apple Computer delivered with all versions of QuickTime. Available as a download or boxed product, MoviePlayer Pro will be an optional purchase intended for Internet content, multimedia and digital publishing enthusiasts who want a quick and affordable way to start experimenting with digital publishing. The QuickTime 3.0 and MoviePlayer Pro Visual QuickStart Guide will be the fastest and quickest way to learn the features of MoviePlayer Pro and the power of QuickTime.A visual tutorial and "comprehensive" reference, the title will answer all the questions a webmaster or digital media author might have about using and authoring in QuickTime and MoviePlayer Pro.

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From the Back Cover

The QuickTime and MoviePlayer Pro 3 Visual QuickStart Guide is the fastest and easiest way to learn the features of MoviePlayer Pro and the power of QuickTime. A visual tutorial and reference, the title will answer the questions a webmaster or digital media author might have about using and authoring in QuickTime and MoviePlayer Pro.

Readers will learn:
* the full variety of techniques for viewing and presenting movies
* methods (many hidden) for sophisticated media editing
* how to prepare movies for the Web and CD-ROM

QuickTime 3 is Apple's award winning cross-platform architecture for multimedia and video publishing, authoring, and delivery on personal computers and the Internet.

The only format that supports over 35 of the leading digital content file formats, and is capable of integrating 3D animation, video, special-effects, text, sounds, virtual reality and streaming media on personal computers and the Internet, QuickTime has recently been selected by the International Standards Organization (ISO) as the basis for MPEG-4.

MoviePlayer Pro is a new, richly featured commercial version of the Apple Computer delivered free with all versions of QuickTime. MoviePlayer Pro provides access to virtually all the power of QuickTime, and provides a tremendous amount of functionality for an inexpensive, compact program. MoviePlayer Pro is intended for Internet content, multimedia and digital media enthusiasts who want a quick and affordable way to start experimenting with digital publishing.

About the Author

Judith Stern is an instructional multimedia specialist. Her background includes corporate training, expert systems development, educational research, and multimedia development. She works for the University of California at Berkeley, where she provides support and training to faculty and staff developing instructional multimedia software; she's also a software designer and technical writer for several educationalresearch projects. Together with Robert Lettieri, she wrote QuickTime: The Official Guide for Macintosh (Hayden Books, 1994) and BMUG's Quicker QuickTime (BMUG, 1992). Robert Lettieri is a computer consultant, specializing in graphics andmultimedia technologies. At the University of California at Berkeley, he isthe multimedia courseware specialist for Synthesis, a National Engineering Education Coalition. He has been experimenting and working with digital and analog video for over 12 years. He has taught many people how to use graphics and desktop publishing software, both individually and in training workshops.

Product Details

• Paperback: 247 pages
• Publisher: Peachpit Pr; 1st edition (August 21, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201353490
• ISBN-13: 978-0201353495
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,205,500 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Synopsis of QuickTime Pro 3, March 12, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Quicktime 3 & Movieplayer Pro (Visual QuickStart Guide) (Paperback)

The only guide to MoviePlayer lets readers quickly and easily harness the full power of digital editing. QuickTime 3.0 is Apple Computer's industry-leading digital sound and audio format, both on the Internet and elsewhere. This title is keyed toward Internet developers, multimedia developers, and digital audio and video enthusiasts and hobbyists.

Looking forward to their next book!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good concise overview of QuickTime and MoviePlayer Pro 3, October 20, 1998

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This review is from: Quicktime 3 & Movieplayer Pro (Visual QuickStart Guide) (Paperback)

If you use QuickTime 3, or have it installed on your Macintosh or Windows computer, you'll find that this is an excellent reference for how to get the most out of QuickTime and MoviePlayer 3 Pro. The authors get right to the heart of the matter, covering all of the core QuickTime technology including extensive descriptions of MoviePlayer Pro track features, text, images, sound, 3-D, sprites, QuickTime VR, MIDI, HTML tags, and more. It's an excellent reference, and full of useful QuickTime 3 feature information which is hard to find in online documentation. It's easily worth the under $20 price just to have QuickTime and MoviePlayer Pro 3 documentation in print form. If you have MoviePlayer Pro 3 sitting idly on your machine you'll be inspired to start it up and investigate examples from the book.