Quicktime Pro 4

by Stern, Judith L.; Lettieri, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780201354690
• ISBN10: 0201354691
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-08-01
• Publisher: Peachpit Pr

Summary

Whether you're new to multimedia ora seasoned author, QuickTime Pro 4: Visual QuickStart Guide will have you up and running fast with Apple's award-winning, cross-platform multimedia package. This step-by-step guide walks you through QuickTime 4, QuickTime Player Pro, and all the latest components, with in-depth coverage of QuickTime 4's new true streaming feature.Written for the beginner and advanced user alike, QuickTime Pro 4: Visual QuickStart Guide gives you straightforward explanations of the features you'll find in the Professional edition of the package, including its extensive editing tools and newfound ability to import MP3 and Flash files. Informative screenshots are sprinkled liberally throughout the book to help keep you on track as you work.

Author Biography

Judith Stern is a multimedia specialist, software designer, and technical writer who works for the University of California at Berkeley on several educational research projects. Robert Lettieri is a graphics and multimedia specialist at the University of California at Berkeley, working on NEEDS, A Digital Library for Engineering Education. Together, Stern and Lettieri are the authors of several books and articles on multimedia. They also coauthor The Little QuickTime Page, a weekly news Web page.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
QuickTime Basics	1	(18)
Differences Between the Pro and Standard Editions	2	(1)
Checking for QuickTime 4	3	(1)
Checking for the Pro Edition	4	(1)
Hardware and Software Requirements	5	(1)
Obtaining and Installing QuickTime 4	6	(5)
Upgrading to QuickTime 4 Pro	11	(2)
Getting QuickTime Updates and Missing Components	13	(3)
Finding Sample Movies	16	(1)
About the QuickTime Interfaces	17	(2)
The QuickTime Standard Controller	19	(12)
Playing and Pausing Movies	20	(2)
Stepping Through a Movie Frame by Frame	22	(1)
Randomly Accessing Points in a Movie	23	(1)
Changing the Audio Level	24	(1)
Overdriving Audio	25	(1)
Varying a Movie's Playback Rate	26	(1)
Using Chapter Lists	27	(1)
Saving Movies on the Web	28	(3)
QuickTime Player Basics	31	(20)
About the QuickTime Player Window	32	(2)
Opening QuickTime Movies	34	(2)
Opening Non-QuickTime Files	36	(2)
Converting Non-QuickTime Files	38	(1)
Opening Files on the Internet	39	(1)
Opening Favorites	40	(1)
Adding and Organizing Favorites	41	(3)
Changing Window Sizes	44	(2)
Showing Copyright Information	46	(1)
The Info Window	47	(1)
Determining Which Tracks a Movie Contains	48	(2)
About Preferences	50	(1)
Controlling Movies in the Player	51	(22)
Playing and Pausing Movies	52	(2)
Changing the Audio Level	54	(2)
Randomly Accessing Points in a Movie	56	(1)
Stepping Through a Movie Frame by Frame	57	(1)
Fast-Forwarding and Fast-Reversing a Movie	58	(2)
Changing Balance, Bass, and Treble	60	(2)
Presenting a Movie	62	(2)
Presenting a Movie Frame by Frame (in Slide-Show Mode)	64	(1)
Looping a Movie or Playing It Backward	65	(1)
Playing Every Frame	66	(1)
Playing and Pausing All Open Movies	67	(2)
Checking the Frame Rate	69	(1)
Using Chapter Lists	70	(1)
Choosing a Language for Playback	71	(1)
Searching a Text Track	72	(1)
Interacting with QuickTime VR	73	(8)
Looking Around in Panorama Movies	74	(1)
Manipulating Objects in Object Movies	75	(1)
Finding and Using Hot Spots	76	(2)
Zooming In and Out	78	(1)
Moving Zoomed-In Objects	79	(1)
Presenting QuickTime VR Movies	80	(1)
Basic Movie Editing	81	(34)
Selecting and Deselecting Movie Data	82	(3)
Jumping to the Beginning or End of a Selection	85	(2)
Playing Only What's Selected	87	(1)
Fine-Tuning a Selection	88	(1)
Getting Time Information about the Movie and Selection	89	(1)
Copying and Cutting Movie Data	90	(2)
Having Multiple Windows Open in QuickTime Player	92	(2)
Pasting Movie Data into a Movie	94	(2)
Pasting Text and Graphics into a Movie	96	(2)
Creating a New Movie and Pasting Movie Data into It	98	(1)
Combining Two Movies	99	(1)
Deleting Parts of a Movie	100	(1)
Replacing Part of a Movie with a Portion of Another	101	(1)
Drag-and-Drop Editing	102	(2)
Adding and Editing Annotations	104	(3)
Changing What's Shown in the Info Tray	107	(2)
Setting a Poster	109	(1)
Setting a Preview	110	(1)
Setting a Preview Using Data from Other Movies	111	(1)
Saving Movies	112	(2)
Checking File Dependencies	114	(1)
Working with Tracks	115	(12)
Combining Tracks with the Add and Add Scaled Commands	116	(2)
Extracting Tracks	118	(1)
Deleting Tracks	119	(1)
Disabling and Enabling Tracks	120	(1)
Scaling a Track to a Specific Duration	121	(2)
Setting Up Tracks with Alternate Languages	123	(1)
Specifying a Language for a Track	124	(1)
Designating a Set of Alternate Tracks	125	(1)
Loading Tracks into Memory	126	(1)
Working with Visual Tracks	127	(24)
Flipping, Rotating, Resizing, and Skewing	128	(4)
Masking a Visual Track	132	(2)
Placing Visual Tracks Side by Side	134	(1)
Creating a Picture-in-a-Picture Effect	135	(1)
Relayering Tracks	136	(1)
Making a Color Transparent in a Track	137	(1)
Blending Tracks	138	(1)
Using Alpha Channels	139	(2)
Adding Visual Data to QuickTime VR Movies	141	(2)
Adding a Custom Color Table to a Movie	143	(1)
Creating a Still-Image File from a Movie Image	144	(2)
Creating a Set of Still Images from a Movie	146	(2)
Creating a FLC Animation from a Movie	148	(3)
Video and MPEG Tracks	151	(16)
About Video Compression	152	(2)
About the Compression Settings Dialog Box	154	(2)
Determining How a Video Track Was Compressed	156	(1)
Creating Video Tracks from a Sequence of Still Images	157	(2)
Creating a Video Track from a Single Still Image	159	(3)
Creating Video Tracks from Non-QuickTime Animation and Video Files	162	(2)
Adding Images to an Existing Movie	164	(1)
Creating MPEG Tracks from MPEG Files	165	(2)
Text Tracks	167	(16)
Creating a Text Track by Importing a Text File	168	(1)
Specifying Text Track Appearance when You Import	169	(2)
Specifying the Duration and Appearance of Individual Frames of Text	171	(2)
Exporting a Text Track with Text Descriptors and Time Stamps	173	(2)
Creating a Text Track That's Synced to Other Tracks	175	(2)
Changing Text That's Already in a Text Track	177	(2)
Adding Small Amounts of Text	179	(2)
Creating Chapter Lists	181	(2)
Sprite, 3D, and Flash Tracks	183	(10)
Attaching a Graphic or Video Sequence to a Sprite	184	(1)
Changing the Background Color of a Sprite Track	185	(1)
Changing Properties of Tracks with Wired Sprites	186	(1)
Creating a Static 3D Track from a 3D File	187	(1)
Changing Texture Mapping for a 3D Track	188	(2)
Changing the Renderer for a 3D Track	190	(1)
Creating Flash Tracks from Flash Files	191	(2)
Working with Audio Tracks	193	(8)
Adding New Audio to a Movie	194	(2)
Adding a Still Image to an Audio Track	196	(1)
Having Audio Play When the Movie Isn't in Front	197	(1)
Changing the Default Volume, Balance, Bass, and Treble of an Audio Track	198	(3)
Sound Tracks and MPEG Audio Tracks	201	(14)
About Digitized Sound	202	(1)
About the Sound Settings Dialog Box	203	(1)
Checking the Characteristics of a Sound Track	204	(1)
Creating a Sound Track from a Sound File	205	(2)
Creating a Sound Track from an Audio CD	207	(1)
Creating an MPEG Audio Track from an MPEG Sound File	208	(2)
Changing the Characteristics of a Sound Track	210	(2)
Converting a Music Track to a Sound Track	212	(2)
Using QuickTime Player as a Sound Conversion Utility	214	(1)
Music Tracks	215	(12)
Converting MIDI Files to QuickTime	216	(2)
Converting Karaoke Files to QuickTime	218	(2)
Changing Instruments in a Music Track	220	(2)
Substituting Your Own Custom Sound for an Instrument in a Music Track	222	(1)
Playing Music Tracks Through a MIDI Synthesizer	223	(2)
Converting Music Tracks Back to MIDI	225	(2)
Delivery Basics	227	(20)
About Data Rate and Size	228	(1)
Checking Data Rate and Data Size	229	(1)
Saving Movies for Distribution	230	(1)
Exporting Movies as QuickTime Movies	231	(5)
Applying Filters	236	(3)
Compressing Selected Tracks	239	(2)
Overview of Authoring and Presentation Tools That Support QuickTime	241	(4)
Checking the Dimensions of a Movie	245	(2)
QuickTime on the Internet: Basics	247	(22)
About Streaming	248	(1)
RTSP Vs. HTTP Streaming	249	(1)
Preparing Movies for HTTP Streaming	250	(3)
Preparing Movies for RTSP Streaming	253	(3)
Preparing Movies for Mixed RTSP and HTTP Streaming	256	(2)
Choosing Video Compression Settings	258	(3)
Choosing Sound Compression Settings	261	(2)
Embedding an HTTP QuickTime Movie on a Web Page	263	(3)
Embedding an RTSP QuickTime Movie on a Web Page	266	(3)
QuickTime on the Internet: Advanced	269	(36)
Adding Attributes to Your EMBED Tag	270	(6)
Creating a Small Movie to Use as a Poster Movie	276	(2)
Writing the HTML for a Poster Movie	278	(2)
Making an Internet Movie Appear in QuickTime Player	280	(1)
Using HREF Tracks to Make Movies Load Web Pages	281	(3)
Creating Hyperlinks in a Text Track	284	(2)
Forcing QuickTime to Open Files	286	(2)
Obtaining Important Utilities	288	(1)
Creating Alternate Movies	289	(5)
Storing Plug-In Settings in a Movie	294	(2)
Specifying Web Pages to Load When a User Clicks in a Movie	296	(2)
Putting Movies on the Internet That Can't Be Saved	298	(2)
Creating Streaming VR Movies with QTVR Flattener	300	(2)
Creating Panorama Thumbnails with QTVR PanoTo Thumbnail	302	(3)
Movies on CD-ROM, Kiosk, and Videotape	305	(14)
Preparing Movies for CD-ROM and Kiosk	306	(3)
Video Compression Choices for CD-ROM	309	(2)
Sound Compression Choices for CD-ROM	311	(1)
Compression Choices for Kiosk	312	(1)
About Additional Compressors	313	(2)
Licensing Requirements for Distributing QuickTime	315	(1)
Outputting to Videotape	316	(3)
Appendix A: Mouse and Keyboard Tricks	319	(8)
Appendix B: Configuring QuickTime	327	(8)
Using the QuickTime Settings Control Panel	328	(5)
Using the QuickTime Plug-in Settings Dialog Box	333	(2)
Appendix C: Resources	335	(4)
Index	339