 The magazine of the Melbourne PC User Group QuickTime For The Web For The Bookshelf Major Keary |
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Morgan Kaufmann publishes a 'QuickTime Developer Series' that contains professional texts on QuickTime, which is "the industry standard for creating and distributing multimedia content on the Web". The successful QuickTime for the Web has just been republished in a second edition that picks up QuickTime Pro 5 (a companion CD contains the full version).
The primary audience includes Webmasters, site designers, Web authors, and Web instructors-and anybody who wants to incorporate sound or video into their Web site. It is not recommended as a text for novices, but if you know your way around the Mac OS, have a reasonable level of familiarity with Web mechanics, and a serious desire to learn QuickTime this book will get you there. It is not a slick presentation that glosses over the technicalities, but a professional level text that covers every aspect of QuickTime in full technical detail.
The thing about the book that impresses me is the way in which the author (who is so modest that his name appears nowhere on the front cover, back cover, or flyleaf!) has achieved a masterpiece of technical communication (which is not the same as technical writing). Without compromising either the professional or technical integrity of the text Steven Gulie brings to lay readers a lucid account of using QuickTime. Every aspect is covered, from Active-X through compression methods and Codecs to XML.
A thoroughly professional text at a professional price; however, lay users who have a serious interest in QuickTime will find this is good value. It should be in libraries as a definitive QuickTime resource and reference.
| Steven Gulie: QuickTime for the Web: For Windows and Macintosh 2/e ISBN 1-55860-780-3 Published by Morgan Kaufmann, 726 pp. + CD, RRP $143.00 incl. GST |
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Reprinted from the March 2002 issue of PC Update, the magazine of Melbourne PC User Group, Australia
