Editorial Reviews Amazon.com If you do 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, and 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 your eyes to the real power of QuickTime, which goes much farther than merely allowing you to create and play short videos. 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 by using sprites.
As an added bonus, the accompanying CD-ROM contains QuickTime 4 Pro for both Macintosh and Windows (which alone is worth the cost of the book); 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 Book Description This is the complete guide to creating QuickTime content and putting it on the Web. It covers everything-from the right way to embed a movie in a Web page to the best techniques for combining scrolling text, Flash animation, MP3 audio, live streams, and virtual reality-in an engaging and easy to follow style.
Written for multimedia authors, Web heads, and anyone who wants to include sound or video on a website, this book provides clear, detailed, and often humorous guidance. This book contains a wealth of information you won't find anywhere else.
The included CD-ROM contains QuickTime Pro for Macintosh and Windows (a $60 value). QuickTime is the industry standard for developing and distributing multimedia content. 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 Macintosh computers.
Other Books in the QuickTime Developer Series
Discovering QuickTime: An Introduction for Windows and Macintosh Programmers. A step-by-step introduction to QuickTime C programming, with code samples on CD.
QuickTime for Java: A Developer Reference. An inside look at programming QuickTime in Java, with a CD that contains installers for both QuickTime and Java. QuickTime for the Web : A Hand-on Guide for Webmasters, Site Designers, and HTML Authors (with CD-ROM) (Quicktime Developer Series)
QuickTime for the Web : A Hand-on Guide for Webmasters, Site Designers, and HTML Authors (with CD-ROM) (Quicktime Developer Series),Steven W. Gulie,Morgan Kaufmann Publishers,012471255X,Computer Bks - Internet,Computer Books And Software,Interactive & Multimedia,Internet - Web Site Design,Internet - World Wide Web,Multi-Media Hardware & Software
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