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Title: QuickTime 6 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide by Judith Stern, Robert Lettieri ISBN: 0-321-12728-5 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 22 October, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: Chris Seibold MyMac.com Book Review
Comment: You'd be surprised if you knew just how much you could accomplish with QuickTime. For most folks QuickTime is just an underutilized streamer of web media. But there is more to QuickTime than a player the latest Lord of the Rings trailer, under the brushed metal facade lays a power packed Swiss army knife of multimedia manipulation. Of course you'd never chance upon just how much you could do with QuickTime by playing clips off the Internet because the true utility of QuickTime is hidden from view. That's where Judith Stern and Robert Lettieri step in, they reveal all of QuickTime inherent niftiness in "QuickTime for Macintosh and Windows".
So just where can you go with QuickTime? I'm glad you asked. The following represents a small sampling of tricks gleaned from the aforementioned "QuickTime for Macintosh and Windows":
Go movie Crazy:
Picture in Picture
Groovy Masking for movies
Add a media skin (forget brushed metal, you could have brushed hair)
Or the very cool but probably useless: Wrap your flick around a cube (texture mapping)
Movies aren't your thing? What are you smoking? QuickTime is not done yet.
Go Audio Gonzo:
Change Volume, Balance, Bass and Treble
Make your own tunes with the synthesizer
Sub custom sounds into the synthesizer
Convert file types
Of course there is much more to QuickTime and, hence, much more in "QuickTime for Macintosh and Windows" than mentioned above. You also get the more useful, if more mundane, information. Information like preparing your movie, audio, etc. for the web.
So how is all this data streamed so to speak? If you're familiar with Visual Quickstart Guides the format will feel like slipping into an old sneaker. That said the visuals are pretty useful. The differences between the Mac interface and the Windows interface are nicely illustrated though some color plates would have been nice. My biggest complaint about the book is the pace in the early chapters. "QuickTime for Macintosh and Windows" moves fairly slowly for the first five chapters covering stuff you know if you ever brushed up against someone who actually used QuickTime to watch a movie trailer. Other than that quibbling "QuickTime for Macintosh and Windows" is a solid effort.
If you're thinking of buying this book because you're stumbling around trying to listen to an audio stream over the Internet don't. If you're looking to put your movie on the web and stream it via QuickTime well then "QuickTime for Macintosh and Windows" is a solid choice. A trip through this book will leave you pleasantly shocked at the capabilities of QuickTime but many of the video editing tips are more easily done with iMovie (sometimes you'll need to juice iMovie with a plug in or two). I suppose it boils down to: You'll know when you need a book on QuickTime and when that happens you won't be disappointed by reaching for "QuickTime for Macintosh and Windows".
MacMiceRating: 3.5 out of 5
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Chris Seibold
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Title: QuickTime for the Web: For Windows and Macintosh, Third Edition (QuickTime Developer Series) by Steven Gulie ISBN: 1558609040 Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $59.95 |
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Title: Digital Movies with QuickTime Pro (Digital Filmmaking Series) by John Farrell ISBN: 1584502118 Publisher: Charles River Media Pub. Date: 26 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Revolutionary QuickTime Pro 5 & 6 by Bradley Ford, Andy Grogan, Frank Lowney, Manuel Minut, Jonathan Puckey, Jurgen Schaub, Francesco Schiavon, Barb Roeder ISBN: 1903450527 Publisher: friends of Ed Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: iMovie3 &iDVD: The Missing Manual by David Pogue ISBN: 0596005075 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: DVD Studio Pro 2 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickPro Guide by Martin Sitter ISBN: 0321167848 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 16 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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