Revolutionary QuickTime Pro 5 & 6 [Paperback]

Bradley Ford (Author), Andy Grogan (Author), Frank Lowney (Author), Manuel Minut (Author), Jonathan Puckey (Author), Jurgen Schaub (Author), Francesco Schiavon (Author), Barb Roeder (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1903450527 | ISBN-13: 978-1903450529 | Publication Date: April 2002

QuickTime: Far more than just watching movies!

Why just watch when you can interact? With interactive media expanding all around us, it's good to know that you can realize the projects you have in mind and get them out into the world. Interactive media makers can learn how to harness the power of QuickTime, and web designers can unleash powerful time-based media. Filmmakers can immerse themselves in the digital future. With the release of the version 6, QuickTime is set to move even further ahead of the competition. But of course, you can't just watch!

What this book covers:

QuickTime is so much more than a software tool or a media format. Its open architecture and standard-embracing technology mean that it will continue to be at the forefront of digital media. Revolutionary QuickTime Pro takes the reader through the whole spectrum of QuickTime use, from streaming video across networks to interactivity, virtual reality and even its role in DVD authoring.

This includes:

• Planning your projects
• Creating your QuickTime content
• QuickTime's interaction with other products, including Macromedia Flash & Director
• How best to get QuickTime media to your audience

What you’ll learn

Who this book is for

• Interactive media makers who wish to learn how to harness the power of QuickTime
• Web designers who would like to unleash powerful time-based media
• Filmmakers interested in the digital future

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

QuickTime Professional is Apple's product for the development and creation of time-based media. It's affordable, powerful, expandable and completely cross-platform - meaning that no-one need feel excluded from our brave new interactive world.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 500 pages
• Publisher: friendsofED (April 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1903450527
• ISBN-13: 978-1903450529
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,646,130 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Comprehensive Refrence for Quicktime Media Format, May 24, 2002

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gabrielle smith (Sydney Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Revolutionary QuickTime Pro 5 & 6 (Paperback)

I was one of the people in the role of technical reviewer for Revolutionary Quicktime Pro 5 & 6. I can recommend it as a comprehensive and sophisticated reference for Apples Quicktime format. It describes in depth the tools you use from capture to deployment of your Quicktime media content. It covers QuickTime's integration with a broad range of media types and the expansive methods of deployment for your Quicktime media.

Most importantly it discusses the Quicktime format in relation to the content creators needs including information for the linear filmmaker to the interactive media designer. It is an in-depth resource for any designer looking to author interactive media, QTVR, DVD or Streaming QuickTime. Each chapter also includes some excellent tutorials especially for those interested in pushing QuickTime's level of interactivity. The section on tools is particularly relevant because of the amount of software, which supports QuickTime, and this is a guide to how the developer might choose tools and resources for their particular project.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Words from the Experts!, August 16, 2002

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audioGuru "audioGuru" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Revolutionary QuickTime Pro 5 & 6 (Paperback)

Wow. After seeing the author list for this book, I had to get a copy. You don't have to spend much time at industry events like Apple's QuickTime Live before you'll run into several of them, lecturing to the assembled. Turns out they're not just nice people who know QuickTime intimately well, they're also great authors!

This book is a solid introduction to the underpinnings of QuickTime and many of the applications empowered by its multimedia abilities. While other books, such as Steven Gulie's QuickTime for the Web or the QuickTime Developers Series might offer more focused explorations of certain complex areas of QuickTime, no book I've found provides as good an overview of the technology - and it's use in the real world - than this book. If you're new to QuickTime and wondering what it can do, this book will be an eye opener. And it'll make you laugh too.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book about QTVR and digital movies, May 21, 2002

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Dan (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Revolutionary QuickTime Pro 5 & 6 (Paperback)

I used this book to figure out how to make QTVR panoramas and digital movies - has some great examples and useful files on the CD. Lots of great tips and tricks, I recommend it.