Product Description

QuickTime is the industry standard for developing and distributing multimedia content on the Web and CD-ROM, for both Windows and Macintosh computers. This book includes QuickTime Pro 6 and a full set of content development tools for both Windows and Macintosh developers. This third edition of the best-selling and award-winning QuickTime for the Web is a hands-on guide showing how to integrate animation, video, recorded sound, MIDI, text, still images, VR, live streams, games, and user interactivity into a Web site. It now also covers how to benefit from QuickTime support for the MPEG-4 global multimedia standard. Written for Web masters, site designers, HTML and multimedia authors, and anyone else who wants to incorporate sound or video into their Web site, this book offers clear and detailed instruction in an engaging style. Written by an expert at Apple Computer, this is the most complete and authoritative source for creating QuickTime content for the Web. 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 6 (a USD29.99 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 current versions of Windows and Mac OS. The CD-ROM also includes a free tools for creating and editing movies, cut-and-paste HTML and JavaScript examples, royalty-free audio, and prebuilt interactive sprites.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1131304 in Books
• Published on: 2003-05-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 825 pages

Amazon.co.uk 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 proves 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 non-streaming? 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 seriously works with QuickTime and uses it as a presentation tool. --Mike Caputo

Amazon.co.uk Review
If you are doing anything related to creating QuickTime movies for the Web, you'll want this book. QuickTime for the Web: A Hands-On Guide for Webmasters, Site Designers and HTML Authors is one of the most informative and easy-to-read guides of its kind, perhaps one of the best in Apple's QuickTime Developer Series.

Loaded with real-world examples, code snippets and digestible text, this book opens up one's eyes to the real power of QuickTime, which goes much farther than merely allowing you to create and play a short video. QuickTime is a deep, all-encompassing technology that can be used for displaying all kinds of things, including programmable functions and site navigation.

Nineteen chapters cover everything from how to download and install QuickTime to special features of the QuickTime plug-in (you can limit the download rate of a movie so that users with a fast connection don't hog all the bandwidth) to streaming vs. nonstreaming applications. Other chapters discuss using QuickTime layers (text, Flash and so on) and programming sprites for creating interactive QuickTime movies. There's a great example of a calculator created entirely in QuickTime using sprites.

As an added bonus, the accompanying CD-ROM has QuickTime Pro 4 for both Windows and Mac (worth the cost of the book alone); an assortment of tools for creating, editing, and converting audio and video; and most of the examples in the book. Leave it to Apple to come out with a technical manual that reads easily and is packed with more fun things to do than a boardwalk arcade. --Mike Caputo, Amazon.com

Review
"The most consistently useful book Ive owned in many years. This is technical writing at its best: lucid prose that explains and exemplifies the vast capabilities of QuickTime on the Web, then goes on to inspire a flood of ideas that can be explored right away because the enclosed CD includes great sample code, media, and essential tools, including QuickTime Player Pro. -Dr. Frank Lowney Director, Electronic Instructional Services Georgia College & State University Its broad possibilities make QuickTime the technology to tell a captivating tale. With such a technology you need proper guidance to successfully relay your message; QuickTime for the Web is the book to do so. Whether you are a novice or an expert, this book will guide you through all the important aspects, with intricate real-world examples, as well as inspire new ways of authoring. With its engaging writing, it's a joy to read and . . . the best reference manual on the subject. -Mario Piepenbrink QuickTime Evangelist Bluevilla Since QuickTime is an always evolving technology and now has support for MPEG-4 and a number of other features, it's great to have this third edition available. . . . As in the first two editions, this QuickTime for the Web offers easy and thorough explanations. This edition will always be on my desk at hand's reach and not tucked away in a bookshelf. -Francesco Schiavon Digital Media Deployment Instructor Vancouver Film School, Interactive Media QuickTime for the Web, Third Edition, is a fantastic resource for anyone who works with new media. Its a must-have reference for anyone who wants to use digital computer media at any level, beginner or expert. Ive learned more glancing through this book than I could ever hope to gather from various other sources or glean from my own experience. This book will open your eyes to all the possibilities that QuickTime enables. -Jim Longo Cofounder Rhythm Division An impressively thorough reference that also functions well as a general introduction to a complex and extensive technology. Unlike many authorized texts, this up-to-date book reveals all the tricks and gotchas with exactly the encyclopedic level of detail that the subject deserves. Everyone working on the internet/multimedia axis should have a copy. -Brennan Young Multimedia Programmer The title QuickTime for the Web doesnt really do this book justice. Although QuickTime and targeting it for the Web is the main focus of the book, its about a whole lot more than that. Id say its the book to read for all that is QuickTime. The wealth of information just about QuickTime is incredible. And oh, by the way, it has a lot of great information about related technologies like streaming, Flash, SMIL, etc. . . . The book . . . is different from most technical books of its kind. Its easy to read, contains some humor, is written by someone who knows the technology well, and above all you can tell the author is excited about what you can do with QuickTime. Id rate this as a must-read for anyone doing anything with QuickTime. It contains everything you need to know to deploy QuickTime content and more. It also does a great job of explaining what specific tools youll need to build the QuickTime content of your choice. -Brad Behrendt President, Digital Prairie Systems www.theprairie.com QuickTime for the Web unleashes the power of digital media. This comprehensive guide is an excellent ready reference to the extensive visual, audio, and interactive capabilities of QuickTime. From basic concepts through clear how-to examples and a wealth of tips, the author covers all aspects of creating and delivering QuickTime media for the Web. This edition extends a keystone work to include the myriad of new features in the QuickTime 6 release. -Steven M. Cox, Ph.D. Interactive New Media Developer virtualthink.com

Customer Reviews

Great book with great, free CD
This is a very complete book with everything you need to know about Quicktime. It starts pretty slowly with the basics, and ends up going into quite technical stuff. I am working alot with video editing, and its really great finding out how to make the best quicktime videos of my stuff and put it on the web (it covers info on how Apple is making their insanly great looking trailers). The book is very up-to-date and covers Quicktime 5.0.2, and Sorenson3 codec.

You get a free version on the CD of Quicktime 5.02 PRO which costs 30 dollars alone. A great bargain.

Want to Know QT, buy this.
This is the QT bible. If you want to deliver quality video, audio and images on the web, this is it. Whether it is streaming video, audio or building wired movies for in-depth interaction, this is it. From beginners to Pros, you will learn things that you didn't know possible.

Along with sharp, detailed insights and instruction to development on both platforms you get a CD with all the examples and code. The bonus being the full QT pro application.

Steve Gulie, knows his stuff inside out. More books at this standard would make new media development a pleasure rather than a struggle that it can be at times. Other publishers take note.