QuickTime for the Web (eBook)

Cover 1
Copyright Page 5
Contents 6
Preface 20
Acknowledgments 29
Chapter 1. Introduction 30
What’s a QuickTime Movie? 30
What’s QuickTime? 35
Delivery Methods: Disk, Streams, Web Server 39
Chapter 2. First Things First: Installing QuickTime 48
Minimum System Requirements 48
Installing QuickTime from the CD 49
Registering QuickTime Pro 50
Setting Your Connection Speed 50
Configuring QuickTime Player 51
Updating to the Latest Version 51
Chapter 3. Bust a .Mov 54
Multimedia and the Web 54
Importing Media into QuickTime 57
Using QuickTime to Play Files in Other Formats 59
When To .Mov It 61
Saving Movies 62
Chapter 4. Basic Training: Putting QuickTime in a Web Page 70
Get QuickTimeŽ Button 70
Embedding with the < EMBED>
Adding the < OBJECT>
Using a Poster Movie 82
Linking with the < A HREF>
Chapter 5. Special Delivery: QuickTime + HTML 88
Fun with QuickTime 88
Complete List of QuickTime Plug-in Parameters 98
Plug-in Parameters and the < OBJECT>
QuickTime and URLs 108
Plug-in Helper 116
Copy Protection 124
Launching QuickTime Player 128
Putting Multiple Movies on a Page 138
Detecting the QuickTime Plug-in 150
Chapter 6. What Webmasters Need to Know 156
MIME Types and File Extensions 157
Server Features and Server Load 160
Chapter 7. What about Streaming? 164
What It Is 164
What It’s Not 165
Why It’s Cool 165
What You Need 166
When Do You Need It? 170
How It Works 171
Chapter 8. Alternate Realities: Language, Speed, and Connections 180
Alternate Movies 180
Alternate Tracks 188
Checking for QuickTime Components 192
Chapter 9. It’s in the Script: Basic JavaScript 196
JavaScript Basics 197
Useful JavaScripts 198
Chapter 10. Now Hear This: Audio 204
Interesting Ways to Use Audio 204
Recorded Music on the Web 216
I Want My MP3 222
Getting the Most Out of MIDI 224
Looping and Stuttering 232
Making It Fit: Sampling, Bandwidth, and Compression 237
Audio Codecs 244
Recording for the Web 254
Popular Audio Formats 258
Chapter 11. Show Me Something Good„Images 266
The Thrill of Still Images 267
Importing (and Exporting) Images 268
Creating Slideshows Using QuickTime Player 270
Making QuickTime Slideshows in Other Applications 279
Adding Sound to a Slideshow 289
Adding URL Links 293
Adding a Still Image as a Movie Background 296
Adding a Logo to a Movie 299
Transparency and Alpha Channels 300
Color and Gamma 305
Popular Image Formats 306
Chapter 12. Just Like in the Movies 312
Importing Movies 313
Putting Movies on the Web 314
Making Movies for the Web 318
Capturing and Digitizing Movies 322
Editing 326
Cropping 328
Compositing and Effects 331
Mixing Down 344
Compressing Your Movie 346
Secrets of the Apple Compressionist 371
Tools 373
Other Movie Formats 376
Chapter 13. Text! Text! Text! 384
QuickTime Text Tools 385
Creating Text Tracks 386
Creating Titles and Scrolling Credits 407
Adding Subtitles or Closed Captions to a Movie 412
Adding a Chapter List to a Movie 419
HREF Tracks 423
Fonts and Cross-Platform Movies 430
Burning Text into a Video Track 432
Searching a Text Track 433
QuickTime Text in Director 434
Chapter 14. Gently down the Stream 436
Do-It-Yourself Streaming (or Not) 437
Making Streaming Movies 438
Uploading Your Movies to a Streaming Server 450
Testing 451
Making a Fast Start Reference Movie 452
Embedding Streaming Movies in a Web Page 453
Setting Up a Streaming Server 460
Live Streaming 474
Firewalls, NAT, and Streaming on Port 80 488
Chapter 15. An Animated Approach 492
Cel-Based Animation 493
Vector Graphics 499
Sprite Animation 502
Chapter 16. Getting Interactive 514
QuickTime Interactivity 514
Getting Interactive with Text Tracks 522
Pushing Buttons with Wired Sprites 529
Shocking Behavior with Flash Tracks 551
Skinning the Cat (But in a Good Way) 554
QuickTime and JavaScript 563
Chapter 17. Mixing It Up: Streaming and Nonstreaming 582
Adding a Chapter List to a Streaming Movie 582
Adding Streaming Content to a Local Movie 588
Allocating Bandwidth 593
Adding Wired Sprites to a Streaming Movie 596
Adding Flash to a Streaming Movie 599
Adding a Media Skin to Your Streams 572 601
Chapter 18. SMIL for the Camera 606
Introduction to SMIL and QuickTime 606
SMIL Tutorial 607
QuickTime and SMIL 624
Embedding SMIL Documents in a Web Page 636
Chapter 19. Let’s Get Virtual 642
QuickTime VR Overview 643
Creating QTVR Panoramas 650
Creating QTVR Object Movies 674
Compositing QTVR with Other Media 679
Embedding QTVR in a Web Page 696
Appendix A QuickTime Player Pro Editing Features 700
Editing 700
Opening, Playing, and Saving Files 709
Movie Properties 722
QuickTime Player Differences by Operating System 733
Appendix B QuickTime Configuration 734
QuickTime Settings 734
Configuring the QuickTime Plug-in 741
Configuring Browsers 743
Appendix C Contents of the CD 746
Software Folder 747
Tools Folder 747
Demos Folder 748
Mac and Win Redistributable Folders 749
Licensing Info Folder 749
Chapter Folders 749
Appendix D Compatibility Issues 752
Windows and the Mac OS 752
Browsers 754
CPU Speed 756
Versions of QuickTime 757
Other Plug-ins 762
Appendix E QuickTime Media Types 768
Digital Video 768
Digital Audio 772
Still Images 774
Animation 778
MIDI, Audio CD, and Text 779
Real-Time Streaming 781
Appendix F Including QuickTime on Your CD 782
QuickTime Software 782
Media Frameworks 783
Making Cross-Platform CDs 784
Appendix G Work Flow Automation with AppleScript 786
What’s AppleScript? 786
AppleScript and QuickTime 787
The Scripts on the CD 788
Appendix H New in QuickTime 6 796
All About MPEG-4 797
New Media Types and Codecs 801
Flash 5 802
New Wired Actions 803
JavaScript Control of ActiveX and Plug-in 804
AppleScript Enhancements 804
QuickTime Menu in Windows System Tray 805
XML Importer for Component Check 806
Glossary 808
Index 822
Apple Computer, Inc. Software License Agreement 858