Quicktime For The Web. A Hands-On Guide For Webmasters, Site Designers, And Html Authors

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. 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. The only book that includes everything you need to create QuickTime content and put it on the Web. A must-have reference for all multimedia developers, including Webmasters, website designers, HTML authors, CD-ROM developers, and anyone else interested in creating multimedia presentations. The CD-ROM includes QuickTime Pro 4 (a $29.99 value) for Windows and Macintosh. It also includes a variety of tools for creating and editing movies, along with cut-and-paste HTML and JavaScript examples-everything you need to convert audio, video, slides, text, and other content into QuickTime format, combine them, compress them, and deliver them over the Web or on CD-ROM.