This is the table of contents for the third edition of QuickTime for the Web.
It should give you a good idea of what's covered in the book.
Table of Contents
Preface: Why QuickTime?
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Introduction
- What's a QuickTime Movie?
- What's QuickTime?
- QuickTime File Format
- Applications and Plug-ins
- QuickTime API
- Who Gets What
- Delivery Methods: Disk, Streams, Web Server
- Local Delivery
- Streaming Server Delivery
- Web Server Delivery
- Which Should You Choose?
Chapter 2 First Things First: Installing QuickTime
- Minimum System Requirements
- Installing QuickTime from the CD
- Registering QuickTime Pro
- Setting Your Connection Speed
- Configuring QuickTime Player
- Updating to the Latest Version
Chapter 3 Bust a .Mov
- Multimedia and the Web
- Browsers and MIME Types
- Importing Media into QuickTime
- Using QuickTime to Play Files in Other Formats
- When To .Mov It
- Saving Movies
- Save As
- Save
- What's in a Name?
- Settings You Can Save
Chapter 4 Basic Training: Putting QuickTime in a Web Page
- "Get QuickTime" Button
- Embedding with the <EMBED> Tag
- Basic <EMBED> Parameters
- Full List of Browser <EMBED> Parameters
- Adding the <OBJECT> Tag
- The <OBJECT> Tag and HTML Standards
- Using a Poster Movie
- Launching QuickTime Player from a Poster Movie
- Linking with the <A HREF> Tag
Chapter 5 Special Delivery: QuickTime + HTML
- Fun with QuickTime
- Some Particularly Cool Features
- Complete List of QuickTime Plug-in Parameters
- Plug-in Parameters and the <OBJECT> Tag
- QuickTime and URLs
- Protocols
- Addressing
- Addresses and #Names
- Targeting
- Passing Plug-in Data in URLs
- Plug-in Helper
- Adding URL Links to Movies
- Making a Poster Movie with Plug-in Helper
- Copy Protection
- Launching QuickTime Player
- Launching the Player from a Poster
- Launching QuickTime Player from a Text Link
- Full-Screen Movies
- Putting Multiple Movies on a Page
- Poster Movies
- Targeting QuickTime Player
- Targeting a Frame or a Window
- Creating a Window with JavaScript
- Detecting the QuickTime Plug-in
- What It Does
- How It Works
- Variations
Chapter 6 What Webmasters Need to Know
- MIME Types and File Extensions
- First .Mov
- The Fab Four
- All the Rest
- Configuring Your Server
- Server Features and Server Load
Chapter 7 What about Streaming?
- What It Is
- What It's Not
- Why It's Cool
- What You Need
- Streaming Server
- Broadcaster
- A Little Extra Effort
- Embedding a Streaming Movie in a Web Page
- More Information
- When Do You Need It?
- Streaming Pros
- Streaming Cons
- Fast Start Pros
- Fast Start Cons
- How It Works
Chapter 8 Alternate Realities: Language, Speed, and Connections
- Alternate Movies
- Tools for Making Reference Movies
- Using MakeRefMovie
- Using XMLtoRefMovie
- Embedding Alternate Movies in a Web Page
- Alternate Tracks
- Making Alternate Tracks with QuickTime Player
- Checking for QuickTime Components
Chapter 9 It's in the Script: Basic JavaScript
- JavaScript Basics
- Useful JavaScripts
- Identify OS, Browser Type, and Version
- Open a Window for QuickTime
- Using JavaScript to Detect QuickTime
Chapter 10 Now Hear This: Audio
- Interesting Ways to Use Audio
- Audio Greetings
- Background Music (MIDI)
- Ambient Sounds
- Stories and Speech
- Recorded Music on the Web
- Start with the Best
- Prime Cut
- Faster, Faster
- Put It on the Page
- I Want My MP3
- Getting the Most Out of MIDI
- A Little about MIDI and QuickTime
- Making or Getting a MIDI Sequence
- Importing MIDI into QuickTime
- Importing Karaoke
- Editing Music Tracks
- Optimizing MIDI for QuickTime and the Web
- Looping and Stuttering
- Making It Fit: Sampling, Bandwidth, and Compression
- A Little about Sound
- Sampling
- Bandwidth
- Making It Fit
- Audio Codecs
- Uncompressed
- AAC (MPEG-4)
- ADPCM
- aLaw 2:1
- GSM
- IMA 4:1
- MACE
- MPEG-1, Layer 2
- MP3
- QDesign Music
- Qualcomm PureVoice
- uLaw 2:1
- Recording for the Web
- Doing It Yourself
- Voice-Overs and Narration
- Popular Audio Formats
Chapter 11 Show Me Something Good--Images
- The Thrill of Still Images
- Importing (and Exporting) Images
- A Word about Exporting Still Images
- Creating Slideshows Using QuickTime Player
- Setting the Slide Sequence
- Setting Image Duration
- Arranging Tracks Spatially
- Adding Transition Effects
- Making QuickTime Slideshows in Other Applications
- Adding Sound to a Slideshow
- Music
- Sound Effects
- Voice-Over or Narration
- Adding URL Links
- Determining the Number of Video Tracks
- Putting It on the Page
- Adding a Still Image as a Movie Background
- Adding a Logo to a Movie
- Transparency and Alpha Channels
- Graphics Modes
- What Exactly Is an Alpha Channel?
- Color and Gamma
- Popular Image Formats
Chapter 12 Just Like in the Movies
- Importing Movies
- Putting Movies on the Web
- Making Movies for the Web
- Capturing and Digitizing Movies
- Interlaced Video and Telecine
- Editing
- Cropping
- Compositing and Effects
- Compositing
- Effects and Transitions
- Mixing Down
- Compressing Your Movie
- Compression Guidelines
- Video Codecs and Settings
- QuickTime Codecs
- QuickTime-Compatible Codecs
- Secrets of the Apple Compressionist
- Tools
- Capture
- Editing and Compositing
- Compression and Format Conversion
- Other Movie Formats
- Windows Media
- AVI
- DV
- MPEG
- Real Media
Chapter 13 Text! Text! Text!
- QuickTime Text Tools
- Creating Text Tracks
- Creating Text for a Text Track
- Importing Text into QuickTime
- Modifying Text Tracks with a Text Editor
- Setting Text Attributes
- Complete List of Text Attributes
- Creating Titles and Scrolling Credits
- Creating Titles
- Adding Credits to a Movie
- Adding Subtitles or Closed Captions to a Movie
- How To Create a Subtitle Track
- Synchronizing the Subtitles with the Dialog
- Adding a Chapter List to a Movie
- HREF Tracks
- HREF Syntax
- Adding an HREF Track to a Movie
- HREF Tracks and JavaScript
- Fonts and Cross-Platform Movies
- Burning Text into a Video Track
- Searching a Text Track
- QuickTime Text in Director
Chapter 14 Gently down the Stream
- Do-It-Yourself Streaming (or Not)
- Making Streaming Movies
- Data Rate Limiting
- Media Types
- Streaming Codecs
- Hinting and Hint Exporter Settings
- Uploading Your Movies to a Streaming Server
- Testing
- Making a Fast Start Reference Movie
- Embedding Streaming Movies in a Web Page
- Streaming and QTSRC
- Streaming from a Text File
- Streaming from a Fast Start Reference Movie
- Streaming with HREF and QuickTime Player
- Setting Up a Streaming Server
- Streaming Server Administrator's Guide
- Hardware Requirements
- Network Connections
- Load Sharing
- Setting Up the Software
- Server, Reflector, and Relay
- Playlists
- Live Streaming
- Introduction to Broadcasters
- Setting Up a Broadcaster
- Choosing a Broadcaster
- Firewalls, NAT, and Streaming on Port 80
Chapter 15 An Animated Approach
- Cel-Based Animation
- Importing Image Sequences
- Importing Animated GIFs
- The Direct Approach
- Vector Graphics
- Sprite Animation
- Tweens and Modifier Tracks
- Actions and Events
- Using a Video Track as a Sprite
- Flash Sprites
Chapter 16 Getting Interactive
- QuickTime Interactivity Overview
- Text Tracks
- Wired Sprites
- Flash Tracks
- Media Skins
- JavaScript
- Media-Specific Interactivity
- Interactive Tools Galore
- Getting Interactive with Text Tracks
- Link Up with {href:}
- Skipping Along with Chapter Lists
- Creating Web Tours with HREF Tracks
- Seriously Wired Text
- Pushing Buttons with Wired Sprites
- Widgets, Actions, and Scripting
- A Crash Course in Widgets
- Sprite Actions
- QuickTime Can Do That?
- Games People Play
- Intermovie Communication
- Internet Communication
- Last Blast
- How Can I Learn to Do This Stuff?
- Interactive Audio
- More Wired Sprite Examples
- Shocking Behavior with Flash Tracks
- Interactive Audio and Video
- Flash Movie Controllers
- Flash Text
- Extending Flash Interactivity
- Skinning the Cat (But in a Good Way)
- Creating Media Skins
- Distributing Your Skinned Movie
- Limitations
- QuickTime and JavaScript
- Executing JavaScript Functions from Movies
- Browser Support for JavaScript Control of QuickTime
- QuickTime JavaScript Methods
- Transformation Matrix
Chapter 17 Mixing It Up: Streaming and Nonstreaming
- Adding a Chapter List to a Streaming Movie
- Adding Streaming Content to a Local Movie
- Adding Stored Streaming Content
- Adding a Live Stream to a Movie
- Allocating Bandwidth
- Reserving Bandwidth with QTSRCCHOKESPEED
- Delaying the Streams
- Adding Wired Sprites to a Streaming Movie
- Adding Flash to a Streaming Movie
- Adding a Media Skin to Your Streams
Chapter 18 SMIL for the Camera
- Introduction to SMIL and QuickTime
- SMIL Tutorial
- Overview
- SMIL Structure
- Layout
- The Body
- Clickable Links
- Throwing a Switch
- QuickTime and SMIL
- Creating QuickTime-Friendly SMIL Documents
- Examples
- Special Media Types
- QuickTime SMIL Extensions
- Embedding SMIL Documents in a Web Page
- Using QTSRC
- Saving a SMIL Document as a .mov File
- Making a Fast Start Reference Movie
- Targeting QuickTime Player
Chapter 19 Let's Get Virtual
- QuickTime VR Overview
- Pan-O-Rama
- Object Oriented
- Creating QTVR Panoramas
- Cranky Old Man Says...
- Equipment
- Planning
- Shooting
- Image Preparation
- Stitching
- Making Panoramas with 3D Software
- Touch-up
- Zoomify It?
- Tiling, Compressing, and Optimizing
- Hotspots and Multinode Panoramas
- Creating QTVR Object Movies
- Equipment
- Shooting
- Generating 3D Imagery
- Image Preparation
- Making the Object Movie
- Compositing QTVR with Other Media
- Compositing with VR Panoramas
- Compositing with Object Movies
- Embedding QTVR in a Web Page
- Basic Embed Techniques
- Multinode Panoramas, Dynamic Hotspots, and HTML
Appendix A QuickTime Player Pro Editing Features
- Editing
- Basic Controls
- Selection Tools
- What Gets Selected
- Edit Menu
- Opening, Playing, and Saving Files
- File Menu
- Movie Menu
- Compression Settings Dialog Box
- Movie Properties
- Properties Window
- Movie and Track Characteristics
- QuickTime Player Differences by Operating System
Appendix B QuickTime Configuration
- QuickTime Settings
- AutoPlay (Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9 Only)
- Browser Plug-in and MIME Types
- Connection Speed
- File Type Associations (Windows Only)
- Media Keys
- Music
- Registration
- Sound In (Windows Only)
- Sound Out (Windows Only)
- Streaming Proxy (Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9 Only)
- Streaming Transport
- Instant On
- Update Check
- Video Settings (Windows Only)
- Configuring the QuickTime Plug-in
- Configuring Browsers
Appendix C Contents of the CD
- Software Folder
- Tools Folder
- Demos Folder
- Mac and Win Redistributable Folders
- Licensing Info Folder
- Chapter Folders
Appendix D Compatibility Issues
- Windows and the Mac OS
- Fonts
- Is QuickTime Installed?
- Browsers
- JavaScript
- VR in Tables
- HTML
- ActiveX
- CPU Speed
- Versions of QuickTime
- QuickTime 2.1
- QuickTime 3
- QuickTime 4
- QuickTime 5
- QuickTime 6
- Other Plug-ins
- Plug-ins That Can Play QuickTime Movies
- Media Supported by Multiple Plug-ins
Appendix E QuickTime Media Types
- Digital Video
- QuickTime's Movie Type
- DV
- MPEG Video
- OpenDML and AVI
- SDP
- Digital Audio
- AIFF and AIFC
- AU
- MPEG-1, Layer 1 and 2
- MPEG-1, Layer 3 (MP3)
- MPEG-4
- Sound Designer II
- WAV
- Still Images
- BMP
- FlashPix
- GIF
- JFIF/JPEG/JPEG0
- MacPaint
- Photoshop
- PNG
- PICT and Picture
- QuickTime Image File
- Silicon Graphics Image File
- Targa Image File
- TIFF
- Animation
- QuickDraw 3D Metafile
- Animated GIF
- Flash
- FLC
- PICS
- MIDI, Audio CD, and Text
- MIDI and Karaoke
- Audio CD
- System 7 Sound
- Text
- Real-Time Streaming
Appendix F Including QuickTime on Your CD
- QuickTime Software
- Media Frameworks
- Making Cross-Platform CDs
Appendix G Work Flow Automation with AppleScript
- What's AppleScript?
- AppleScript and QuickTime
- The Scripts on the CD
- AppleScript Droplets
- OSA Menu Scripts
Appendix H New in QuickTime 6
- All About MPEG-4
- What's So Great about MPEG-4?
- The Tricky Bit
- .mov or .MP4?
- Creating .mp4 Files
- The 3GPP Story
- New Media Types and Codecs
- Flash 5
- New Wired Actions
- JavaScript Control of ActiveX and Plug-in
- AppleScript Enhancements
- QuickTime Menu in Windows System Tray
- Improvements to Full-Screen Mode
- XML Importer for Component Check
Glossary
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