Windows Media 9 Series by Example / Edition 1

by Nels Johnson

Overview

Videographers can harness the potential that WM9 offers to deliver high-quality video and multimedia via DVD and over the Internet. Illustrated examples and tutorials demonstrate the basic functionality of WM9 as well as the options available to advanced users who wish to design new applications with the software development kit. Professional videographers will find this book to be a practical way to learn how to set up players, encoders, and servers and how to capture and compress video so they can use WM9 with the applications they use every day, including Powerpoint, Premiere, After Effects, and Avid.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781578202041
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/25/2003
Series:	DV Expert Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Nels Johnson is president of Download Recordings, Inc., a desktop media consulting and production company, and has taught desktop video and multimedia at the University of California and College of Marin. He is the author of How to Digitize Video, Web Developer's Guide to Multimedia and Video, and Web Developer's Guide to Multicasting, as well as a contributing editor and feature writer for DV magazine. Mr. Johnson served on the independent team (the San Francisco Canyon Company) that developed the original version of QuickTime for Windows for Apple Computer.

Table of Contents

Section I; Chapter 1 What’s New in Windows Media 9 Series; Chapter 2 Setting up the WM9 Player, Encoder, Server, and SDK; Chapter 3 Video Capture in WM9; Chapter 4 Compression and Transcoding with WM9; Chapter 5 Network Streaming with WM9; Chapter 6 DRM, WM9 Style; Section II; Chapter 7 Playing WM9 files in PowerPoint, Producer, and Internet Explorer; Chapter 8 Working with the WM9 Software Development Kit (SDK); Chapter 9 Making DVD Movies with WM9 and MS Movie Maker 2; Chapter 10 WM9 with Third-Party Nonlinear Editors; Chapter 11 Using WM9 with SnapStream Personal Video Station; Chapter 12 Producing WM9 Content for Handhelds; Chapter 13 WM9 Audio Techniques; Chapter 14 Encoding with the WM9 Screen Codec; Section III; Chapter 15 WM9 Integration in Consumer Electronics; Chapter 16 Late-Breaking News & Production Tools; Chapter 17 How Movielink Uses Windows Media 9 Series; Chapter 18 Standing in the Shadows of Motown: A WM9 Feature;