Quicktime For The Web - A Hand-on Guide For Webmasters, Site Designers, And Html Authors (with Cd-rom)

This book is a hands-on guide for embedding multimedia content in Web sites or on CD-ROM, using QuickTime and HTML. It includes a CD-ROM with cut-and-paste HTML examples and QuickTime 3 Pro: everything you need to convert audio, video, slides, text, and other multimedia content into
QuickTime format and prepare it for delivery over the World Wide Web or CD-ROM.


Step-by-step instructions are provided for:
o Converting audio, video, and other multimedia into QuickTIme format
o Compressing data for optimum delivery over the Web or CD-ROM
o Embedding QuickTime multimedia into HTML pages, making use of QuickTime's special capabilities for maximum effect
Includes high-quality codes for compressing multimedia:
o Sorenson video
o Qualcomm Purevoice speech
o QDesign music
o Other video, graphics, animation, text, and MIDI

The author is a senior technical writer and Multimedia Web Monkey for Apple's QuickTime team. He has developed Web sites with QuickTime content for Apple Computer and other clients. His writing on QuickTime, CD-ROM, and HTML has been published in WIRED magazine, and he has produced a commercial CD-ROM, "Life Near 310 Kelvin," that incorporates HTML, digital audio, and QuickTime movies. What we're saying here is that the author is a big geek-he's smart, he's funny, and he knows what he's talking about.