QuickTime for filmmakers /

QuickTime for filmmakers /

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Author / Creator:Ferncase, Richard K.
Imprint:Amsterdam ; Boston : Focal Press, ©2004.
Description:1 online resource (xv, 328 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Subject:
QuickTime.
QuickTime
Motion pictures -- Editing -- Data processing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Digital video -- Editing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Digital video -- Editing
Motion pictures -- Editing -- Data processing
handbooks.
Handbooks and manuals
Handbooks and manuals.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13596008
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ISBN:9780240804965
0240804961
9781136132858
Digital file characteristics:text file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-324) and index.
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Summary:Over the decades, distribution has remained the most elusive aspect of filmmaking. The Web provides filmmakers with a new option for distribution, exhibition, and broadcast. While other media streaming technologies are available, QuickTime remains the most popular option for its versatility, excellent quality, and ease of use. QuickTime for Filmmakers shows filmmakers and videographers how to utilize this industry standard tool and offers advice on how best to shoot a film for Internet delivery. Other topics include: Editing and converting video, adding and editing soundtracks and using text in QT movies, compressing media, and preparing movies for http and RTSP streaming or a combination of both. A chapter on virtual reality explores QuickTime's unique feature for creating 360 panoramas, immersive cubic VR, object movies and VR scenes. A companion CD-ROM demonstrates topics covered in the book and provides samples of film prepared for web delivery. *Details the most powerful and popular streaming software available. *Focuses on the needs and concerns of the filmmaker and videographer. *Companion CD-ROM demonstrates techniques covered in the book and provides samples of film prepared for web delivery.
Other form:Print version: Ferncase, Richard K. QuickTime for filmmakers. Amsterdam ; Boston : Focal Press, ©2004 0240804961 9780240804965
Standard no.:9780240804965
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. QuickTime: An Introduction
  • The QuickTime Player
  • Other QuickTime Components
  • Chapter 2. From Grain to Pixels: Film, Video, and QuickTime
  • Motion Picture Production for the Web
  • Interlaced and Progressive Video
  • Targeting Your QuickTime Content
  • Optimizing Your Movie in Preproduction, Production, and Postproduction
  • Chapter 3. The QuickTime Player and Plug-in
  • The QuickTime Controller Bar
  • The QuickTime Player
  • Chapter 4. Basic Editing with QuickTime Pro
  • Making Selections
  • Copy-and-Paste Editing
  • Saving a Movie as a Self-contained File
  • Editing Tracks
  • Resizing and Repositioning a QuickTime Track
  • Rearranging Video Tracks
  • Using Masks
  • Video Effects Using QuickTime's Graphics Mode
  • Other Graphics Modes
  • Chapter 5. A Filmmaker's Guide to Compression
  • Compressing Time-based Video and Audio
  • The MPEG Codecs
  • QuickTime Codecs
  • Compressing Your Movie with QuickTime Pro
  • Additional Codecs for QuickTime
  • Audio Codecs
  • Professional Compression with Discreet Cleaner
  • Preprocessing for Custom Compression
  • Kinoma for PDA Video
  • Compression Summary
  • Frame Size
  • Frame Rate
  • Testing
  • Chapter 6. Immersive Imaging with QTVR
  • Panoramic and Immersive Imaging
  • Object Movies
  • QTVR Scenes
  • Compression for QTVR
  • Making a QTVR Project
  • Repositioning and Resizing QTVR Tracks
  • Chapter 7. Interactivity with QuickTime
  • A Basic Interactive Slide Show
  • Making Custom Media Skins
  • Instant Media Skins with Tattoo
  • Wired Sprites
  • Tutorial: Make a QuickTime VR Skinned Movie with Wired Buttons, Hot Spots, and Text
  • Chapter 8. QuickTime Options for Distribution and Exhibition
  • Exhibition via Hard Disk
  • Exhibition via CD-ROM
  • DVD
  • Exhibition via the World Wide Web or Other Network
  • Targeting and Loading URLs with HREF Tracks
  • Chapter 9. QuickTime Tools and Applications
  • Nonlinear Editing
  • Streaming
  • Special-Effects Software
  • Interactive QuickTime Tools
  • Compression and Encoding
  • QTVR
  • Other QuickTime Software
  • Appendix A. Installing QuickTime and Upgrading to QuickTime Pro
  • Standard or Pro Edition?
  • Upgrade to QuickTime 6 Pro
  • Updates and Corrections
  • Appendix B. Glossary
  • Appendix C. QuickTime Web Sources and Articles
  • QuickTime in General
  • Text Tracks
  • QuickTime Media Skins
  • Interactive QuickTime, Flash, and Wired Sprites
  • Web Streaming
  • Streaming Media
  • Compression and Codecs
  • Discreet cleaner
  • Final Cut Pro
  • Film Versus Video
  • MPEG-4
  • QTVR
  • Miscellaneous QuickTime Tutorials and Information
  • Appendix D. Web Exhibition Venues
  • Other Venues
  • Appendix E. Bibliography
  • Index

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