Interactive QuickTime: Authoring Wired Media (QuickTime Developer Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.35 (608 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0023RT30G |
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| Number of Pages | : | 396 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-22 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
. He is a familiar speaker at QuickTime Live!, MacWorld, and Apple's World Wide Developer Conferences. Matthew Peterson is a neuroscientist at the University of California, Berkeley, and is co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of the M.I.N.D. Matthew has made many contributions to the QuickTime community in the form of open source projects, libraries, and applications. Institute, in
This book goes well beyond the basics, far into the best practices, with plenty of supporting scripts and sample projects. It starts with material suitable for beginners and proceeds steadily through intermediate, advanced, and into previously uncharted territory . For the aspiring QuickTime media developer, it addresses the most critical authoring issuesand the techniques described are clever and applicable to multimedia development of any ilk."Ken Loge, Oregon Research Institute"You are holding a book written by one the smartest people I have ever metand it has been my pleasure to know some VERY smart peoplea book about one of the most exciting technologies on the planet. It's a trip, my
Ian James Wood said An excellent reference book with all projects included on th. If you think that QuickTime is just a media player for showing video and listening to audio, this book will make you think again. Delving into the depths of the QuickTime architecture Matthew shows the reader the huge breadth of interactivity that is possible and encourages the reader to think how techniques can be applied in different ways. Each chapter ends with an 'Explorations' section asking the reader to think about various topics that have been looked at, and how they can be applied.The book is broken up into six main sections covering topics such as sprites- communicating with them, moving them, interaction, modelling phy. "Super helpful book" according to A Customer. I just started using Live Stage Pro to author quicktimes 2 months ago and found the software's manual to be helpful but light on insight. In a nutshell 'Interactive Quicktime' is a crucial book to get if you're learning LSP (although the author goes into other methods of working with quicktime too). What can I say? It helps you understand what's going on within the world of the quicktime architecture and walks you through tons of projects to help you get it. I wasn't getting it with the LSP manual. As the author states it would be helpful to know a little bit of applescript or some other programming language but I'm picking it up. Take QuickTime to the Next Level George Cook If you are looking to create deep interactive content with QuickTime, this book is for you. It provides details on how to author all of the interactive elements of QuickTime. With it you can create interative multimedia experiences with buttons, sliders, scripted motion, virtual reality, midi, flash and much more. I bought it to learn more about client/server communications from QuickTime movies - and this was the book that told me how to make that happen! If you want to become a professional interactive media author, this book, a copy of Totally Hip Software's LiveStage Pro, QuickTime and your creativity will get you there.
It is a fast-growing field pushed by the rapid development and dispersion of Java, Shockwave, Flash, and QuickTime. *Features real-world, hands-on projects of progressive sophistication allowing developers to start with a project appropriate to their own level of QuickTime experience.*A companion CD-ROM contains the book's source code, tutorials, and demo software, including a demo version of Live Stage Pro (with a discount offer for the full version).. This content can extend far beyond simple movies—it can act as application user interfaces, educational multimedia, scientific display panels, musical instruments, games and puzzles, etc., and can interact with you, your browser, a server, or with other movies.*Describes concepts and t