This guide to Apple's multimedia technology, QuickTime 5, presents each of the program's features in a simple, one- or two-page format with numerous supporting illustrations. Stern and Lettieri (both multimedia, U. of California, Berkeley) cover such topics as controlling movies in the player; the QuickTime standard controllers; basic movie editing; visual, text, flash, and music tracks; preparing movies for streaming; and creating web pages with movies. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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.