Quicktime Pro 4.0 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide

by Robert Lettieri and Judith L. Stern

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,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201354691
• ISBN13: 9780201354690
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Peachpit Press
• Length: 359 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

I love this book

If you're a QT user, don't forget to buy this book. This book is packed with useful hints and tricks. It's surely going to be useful to you someday.Remember to buy some other books about general video compression theories, MPEG encoding, color theories ... so you'll handle codecs better. This book is not the whole thing.

Step-by-step instruction to powerful media!

As webmaster to a site with over 100 quicktime VR panoramas & QuickTime digital media - this book was a MUST HAVE! It gave me all the information I needed to go beneath the surface and unlock the powerful features that QuickTime has to offer. If you want to create & deliver cutting edge media with all the bells and whistles. . . . BUY THIS BOOK! Luke - webmaster virtual bakersfield.com

correction

Step one of the section "Creating Video Tracks from A Sequence of Still Images" states: "give each still-image file a common name with a sequential number appended to it (for example, picture1, picture2, picture3). Then place all of the files in the same folder." This is a great book for QTPro beginners, explains everything very clearly. I believe the poor review was due to lack of concentration not error on the part of the writers.

Best book available on the subject

I'm a loyal customer of the Visual Quickstart Guide series, and this book was up to their usual high standards. It gets straight to the point, takes you well beyond the basics, and reveals the power of this technology with both clearly written step-by-step instructions and strategically chosen screen shots on every page. A must for anyone that purchased a QuickTime Pro upgrade.

Great place to start

Excellent overview of Quicktime. This has info you would spend hours looking for elsewhere. My favorite section was the explanation of the different compression options, but all sections are helpful for editing, digitizing, and saving QT movies and audio.