Interactive QuickTime: Authoring Wired Media (Paperback)

"Matthew Peterson, one of the world's most innovative minds, infuses Interactive QuickTime with applicable insight and helpful humor. This book goes well beyond the basics, far into the best practices, with plenty of supporting scripts and sample projects. Covering a wide spectrum of topics, Interactive QuickTime: Authoring Wired Media addresses the building of UIs, repurposing already existing media, using physics for richer motion, and that's just getting started. The appendices along with the exploration of XML in QuickTime are indispensable resources for the active producer of QuickTime media. I am excited to have this resource available for QuickTime authors!" -Michael Shaff, founder of Small Hands "This book belongs on the shelf of anyone who takes multimedia development seriously. For the aspiring QuickTime media developer, it addresses the most critical authoring issues-and the techniques described are clever and applicable to multimedia development of any ilk." -Ken Loge, Oregon Research Institute "You are holding a book written by one the smartest people I have ever met-and it has been my pleasure to know some VERY smart people-a book about one of the most exciting technologies on the planet. The writing is clear and enjoyable. It starts with material suitable for beginners and proceeds steadily through intermediate, advanced, and into previously uncharted territory ... It's a trip, my friend. And one worth taking ... Be warned: this is not an ordinary book. It can literally change your life." -from the foreword by Steven Gulie, author of QuickTime for the Web "This book is chock-full of useful algorithms and interesting approaches to programming interactive behaviors in QuickTime movies." - MacTech

"This is the master wizard's recipe book."
-From the foreword by Steven Gulie, author of QuickTime for the Web

"This book belongs on the shelf of anyone who takes multimedia development seriously."
-Ken Loge, Oregon Research Institute

Matthew Peterson's tour de force about making media interactive.

Interactivity is one of the most captivating topics for today's online community. It is a fast-growing field pushed by the rapid development and dispersion of Java, Shockwave, Flash, and QuickTime. While several good books are available about the interactive capabilities of Java, Shockwave, and Flash, until now there hasn't been a book about QuickTime interactivity. A logical follow-up to QuickTime for the Web, this eagerly awaited book by Matthew Peterson details the power of QuickTime's wired media technology and provides a resource for professionals developing and deploying interactive QuickTime content. This content can extend far beyond simple movies-it can act as application user interfaces, educational multimedia, scientific display panels, musical instruments, games and puzzles, etc., and can interact with you, your browser, a server, or with other movies.

*Describes concepts and techniques of interactivity applicable to technologies beyond QuickTime-including Flash.
*Features real-world, hands-on projects of progressive sophistication allowing developers to start with a project appropriate to their own level of QuickTime experience.
*A companion CD-ROM contains the book's source code, tutorials, and demo software, including a demo version of Live Stage Pro (with a discount offer for the full version).

Text provides developers with a guide to building interactive media using QuickTime. Describes concepts and techniques of interactivity applicable to technologies beyond QuickTime, including Flash. Features hands-on projects of progressive sophistication, allowing developers to start with a project appropriate to their own level of QuickTime experience. Softcover.

"Each presentation Matthew has done...has had the same electrifying effect. And it's always followed by a question and answer period, featuring the same questions: "How did you do that? And that? And THAT??!!" The question and answer session is always too short. I've been waiting for this book a long time. And I'm here to say, it was worth the wait. This book will show you, step by step, how to do things you never suspected were even possible. This is the master wizard's recipe book."
-From the foreword by Steven Gulie, author of QuickTime for the Web

Interactivity is one of the most captivating topics for today"s online community. It is a fast-growing field pushed by the rapid development and dispersion of Java, Shockwave, Flash, and QuickTime. While several good books are available about the interactive capabilities of Java, Shockwave, and Flash, until now there hasn"t been a book about QuickTime interactivity. A logical follow-up to QuickTime for the Web, this eagerly awaited book by Matthew Peterson details the power of QuickTime"s wired media technology and provides a resource for professionals developing and deploying interactive QuickTime content. This content can extend far beyond simple movies-it can act as application user interfaces, educational multimedia, scientific display panels, musical instruments, games and puzzles, etc., and can interact with you, your browser, a server, or with other movies.

Features
*Describes concepts and techniques of interactivity applicable to technologies beyond QuickTime-including Flash.
*Features real-world, hands-on projects of progressive sophistication allowing developers to start with a project appropriate to their own level of QuickTime experience.
*A companion CD-ROM contains the book's source code, tutorials, and demo software, including a demo version of Live Stage Pro (with a discount offer for the full version).

About the Author
Matthew Peterson is a neuroscientist at the University of California, Berkeley; co-founder of the M.I.N.D. Institute, in Irvine; and Chief Science Officer and co-founder of Tekadence, Inc., in San Francisco. Matthew has made many contributions to the QuickTime community in the form of open-source projects, libraries, and applications. He is a familiar speaker at QuickTime Live!, MacWorld, and Apple's World Wide Developer Conferences.

Matthew Peterson is a neuroscientist at the University of California, Berkeley, and is co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of the M.I.N.D. Institute, in Costa Mesa, California. Matthew has made many contributions to the QuickTime community in the form of open source projects, libraries, and applications. He is a familiar speaker at QuickTime Live!, MacWorld, and Apple's World Wide Developer Conferences.