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QuickTime 6 for Macintosh and Windows

QuickTime 6 is one of those technologies that’s hard to get a handle on: It’s not just an application, but an entire cross-platform multimedia architecture you can use to view and create a vast range of multimedia projects. Now over 10 years old, QuickTime has become the Web standard for streaming and non-streaming video content. QuickTime 6 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide, puts the QuickTime architecture in perspective, providing both the “big picture” as well as detailed instructions for accomplishing a variety of tasks–from creating slide-show presentations, editing movies, and creating music soundtracks, to uploading videos for streaming over the Web. The task-based, visual layout takes an easy approach to teaching QuickTime, using pictures to guide you through the ins and outs of the program. If you’re a beginner, you’ll learn just what you need to know to get started, while all of you seasoned professionals can use the handy visual tabs to quickly look up the new features and tools of version 6, including support for MPEG-4.

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QuickTime Pro 4 for Macintosh and Windows, Second Edition (Visual QuickStart Guide)

The QuickTime Pro 4: Visual QuickStart Guide provides a clear, visual introduction to the rich capabilities of this multimedia creation software. Readers will learn techniques for preparing videos, audio clips, and editing multimedia content to deliver over the Internet or via CD/ROM. Written by two experts with years of experience using QuickTime, this VQS covers the basics of streaming digital media creation, as well as sophisticated techniques using the new features of QuickTime 4. QuickTime Pro for Macintosh and Windows can help you handle any multimedia viewing or authoring job. It will help you create multimedia projects, edit digital video and animation, or simply assist you with downloading movie trailers off the Web. This small book reveals the true depth of QuickTime, from the differences between the Standard and Pro versions to how to use other media, such as Macromedia Flash movies, as layers in a QuickTime movie. Some of the best chapters describe how to add features to your QuickTime movies, like adding searchable text tracks, music, and MIDI tracks, or creating QuickTime movies for Internet streaming delivery. Like other books in the Visual QuickStart series, this accessible little reference volume is easy to read and filled with tips and tricks for just about anyone using QuickTime–passive viewers and content creators alike. There’s no companion CD-ROM–one of the ways the publisher keeps the cost down–which is unfortunate because QuickTime movies demonstrating some of the examples in the book would have been more than worth the extra few dollars. Even without a CD-ROM, though, this is a recommended book. There is plenty of information here for users of this pervasive technology. –Mike Caputo

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QuickTime for Java: A Developer Reference (QuickTime Developer Series)

This book is an essential quick reference for the QuickTime and Java programmer. It provides the reader with a wealth of programming examples as well as a handy reference that provides an in-depth, class-by-class description of the API. The authors are part of the original QuickTime engineering team that pioneered and developed QuickTime for Java. A CD-ROM at the back of the book provides the reader with working sample code and other resources, so you can get started right away building your own Java applications and applets.

Apple’s QuickTime technology has set the industry standard for developing and distributing multimedia content over the Web and on CD-ROMs. QuickTime’s powerful, extensible software toolkit enables programmers, Web content developers, and multimedia producers to deliver state-of-the-art digital content—movies, audio, and music. Using Java, the same application can be deployed on any platform that supports QuickTime.

If you know Java, you’ll want to tap into the power and extensibility of QuickTime. If you know C or C++, this book will introduce you to the core QuickTime technologies and their usage from Java. Each chapter is designed to bring you rapidly up to speed in particular areas of QuickTime usage with neatly explained and commented sample code and tutorials.

* Offers an overview of the QuickTime architecture
* Presents an inside look at the QuickTime for Java programming model and architecture
* Includes programming examples and tutorials that demonstrate key features
* Serves as a comprehensive quick reference of all classes and methods, interfaces and fields in the core QuickTime for Java 1.0 API

* Offers an overview of the QuickTime architecture
* Presents an inside look at the QuickTime for Java programming model and architecture
* Includes programming examples and tutorials that demonstrate key features
* Serves as a comprehensive quick reference of all classes and methods, interfaces and fields in the core QuickTime for Java 1.0 APIThe selling slogan for Java is “write once, run anywhere,” meaning programmers only have to write a program once and then compile it for whatever their target platform happens to be without worrying about modification. The problem with systems like this is harnessing the power of complicated components like QuickTime from within such a high level and abstract layer as Java. QuickTime for Java opens the doors to integrating the Java programming language with Apple’s premiere multimedia streaming software by introducing the QuickTime for Java API. The book’s first half explores the relationship between QuickTime and Java, and how to make QuickTime function calls from within Java code. Both the book and the CD-ROM are filled with coding examples, ranging from the most basic–opening and playing a QuickTime movie–to the more complex, like embedding different media types and streaming movies. The second half of the book, “QuickTime for Java Reference,” probably contains the most valuable part if you already have some experience coding QuickTime procedures in Java. In over 300 pages, it catalogues library calls and functions for each of the QuickTime for Java packages: quicktime.app.actions, quicktime.app.audio, quicktime.app.players, and so on. Both authors work at Apple–one is a senior writer and the other is the chief architect of QuickTime for Java–so it’s not surprising to see their experience and knowledge brought to bear in clear and concise examples throughout the book. This is an excellent and detailed reference volume for anyone coding in Java, or anyone programming multimedia applications and looking to migrate to Java. –Mike Caputo

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QuickTime for Filmmakers (Quicktime Developer Series)

Over the decades, distribution has remained the most elusive aspect of filmmaking. The Web provides filmmakers with a new option for distribution, exhibition, and broadcast. While other media streaming technologies are available, QuickTime remains the most popular option for its versatility, excellent quality, and ease of use. QuickTime for Filmmakers shows filmmakers and videographers how to utilize this industry standard tool and offers advice on how best to shoot a film for Internet delivery. Other topics include: Editing and converting video, adding and editing soundtracks and using text in QT movies, compressing media, and preparing movies for http and RTSP streaming or a combination of both. A chapter on virtual reality explores QuickTime’s unique feature for creating 360 panoramas, immersive cubic VR, object movies and VR scenes. A companion CD-ROM demonstrates topics covered in the book and provides samples of film prepared for web delivery.

*Details the most powerful and popular streaming software available.
*Focuses on the needs and concerns of the filmmaker and videographer.
*Companion CD-ROM demonstrates techniques covered in the book and provides samples of film prepared for web delivery.

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Strata VideoShop Version 4.0 / 3-D [ MACINTOSH ] (Any Power Mac / OS 7.5 or later / QuickTime 2.5 or later / SoundManager 3.2 or later)

NOTE : This item does not include TuneBuilder, available in some, but very few, later Strata editions.
System Requirements for installation:
Any Power Mac
Mac OS System 7.5 or later.
QuickTime 2.5 or later.
Sound Manager 3.2 or later.
One of the most versatile and sought after software tools anywhere.
Comes with complete Installation and Usage Guide.

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