Multimedia Books

Funny that I have to rate this book if only in theory. I'm sure it would have been worth all 5 stars except, when I had trouble ordering it, I wrote to the author who said, "It was never written." Amazon should really know this. I still went ahead and ordered his book, Promoting Your Podcast: The Ultimate Guide to Building an Audience of Raving Fans. Promoting Your Podcast: The Ultimate Guide to Building an Audience of Raving Fans

Jason Van Orden was kind enough to inform me right away on this matter. I also ordered Podcasting Solutions which seems to be a favorite for lots of people, including Jason Van Orden.

Rachel, Santa Monica

Having spent hours listening to his podcasts and receiving his advice I can tell you that Jason knows about podcasting. He knows all the tricks to making your podcast sound like it was recorded professionally in a studio. He has also written another book on promoting your podcast that I would highly reccommend.

You want the best book on Podcasting.. You got it.. This book is all you need. Just perfect.

There's quite a few thorough looking books out there for podcasting, and the main reason I bought this one was due to its recent release date more than anything else. Usually, how new something is does not matter to me, but with technology it's an entirely different matter as the websites I choose to send a podcast to may change their requirements and expectations every couple of years. I work with a great IT guy but I often get lost just a few minutes into his explanation of things so I knew that I had to get some resources or I'd never be able to do a podcast on my own. Audacity just isn't all that tech ignoramus friendly (although the price is right!) so I was pleasantly surprised by the Podcasting Bible. They begin with Audacity and introduce a site called PodOmatic which is something I never heard of before opening these pages. There you can get free server space for audio files and attract listeners. Considering the amount of "oomph" in this dense how-to guide, I'd say that the price is quite reasonable.

I bought this book with a sense of unease. ... This book is well worth it. Whether youare a beginner, or advanced in the subject matter, I feel this book is worth the investment. It takes through basic concepts, to design strategies, all the way to execution. If I had to say one bad thing about this book, or if I could have a wish list for future editions, it would be that I felt the treatment of software should have been more complete. Delving into the pros and cons more. Don't get me wrong, there was an excellent chapter on software. I just walked away wishing there was more. Other than that, this book is excellent.

This book is well organized and offers a large number of very practical suggestions that will benefit an existing multimedia development or that will lead the beginner down the correct road. This is a thin book that offers exercises and case studies. Additionally, it is full of pictures that demonstrate well the practical application of the suggestions they offer. This book is a must have.

The author has an elegant yet straightforward style, as she recounts a "big" story set in a disarmingly charming small town. She interweaves the broad political story with very human and personal vignettes. The result is a book that is easy to read, hard to put down, and will linger in your thoughts long afterwards.

As a straight person with many gay friends, I could not help but to be touched by Quinn's passion for the civil rights issue going on in regards to gay marriage. She somehow managed to take a hot, controversial topic and turn it into a well-written story that anyone would enjoy. Her humorous style of writing coupled with the seriousness of the issue make this a delightful and exciting book. A must read!

Being new to the field of multimedia design, I read many books hoping to get the basic idea of what is involved in creating an interactive project. This book provided me with exactly the introductory level materials I needed to begin building a solid foundation. I now have a plan of action for what I need to focus on in order to be successful in designing multimedia projects. Kudos to Lisa...I anxiously await the release of your new book!

A friend of mine recommended this book (he works for NASA) and I'm glad he did. This book talks about the basic principles of design necessary to creating a good web site or multimedia design project . . . in a way understandable to us non-programmers (but my tech-head friend at NASA liked it too). One of the strengths of this book (and there are too many to list) is that the author doesn't get trapped in talking about programming. This is very unlike other books that quickly go out of date due to a focus on the technology-of-the-moment. Ms. Graham talks about how to design interactive projects in a way undoubtedly valid 30 years from now. I feel as if this book will become a classic in design books. Even better yet, this book is very informative and not a bit condescending in tone. The book was an easy read and left me with plenty to think about.

And the cover is cool and the illustrations informative and interesting. Altogether a very good book and one that will have a place on my bookshelves for decades.

Making web video involves a cross section of products and skills and "Producing Flash CS3 Video" puts it all together in one book both suitable a a good read and as a reference. While reading through this you'll also pick up on interesting facts about different video formats, After Effects tips and tricks and ways to tame Flash. All in all, this was a great buy for me.

This is an AMAZING resource for Flash CS3. I was really impressed with how concise and well-organized this book is. A must have resource for any developer!!

This book is an excellent multimedia experience for someone to learn Java Programming at home. It can also be used as a supplement to a lecturer or a hardcover Java book. I highly recommend it as the best way to learn on your own. This is what online or multimedia teaching is all about!

I loved this product. Like nothing else I have seen on programming, it makes learning programming and java easy and interesting because it is so visual and dynamic. The CD is a resource that you can keep for life. i would recommend this to anyone wanting to learn how to program in java from a master of the discipline.

The study guide with CD ROM gives a very organized approach to study information for the PTA Student preparing for the National Exam. It includes a CD ROM with 4 practice exams in the same format as the National Exam and explanation for each answer.

Very good book was shipped in the time stated at buying and was in stock when said.

The visual graphics of Q-Puncture rise above other acupuncture multimedia products. I'm a student of acupunture and I've done a great deal of searching to find tools to assist in my studies. I was so pleased to find Q-Puncture. The software includes beautifully designed 3-D animation for needle incertion and graphics that are visually stimulating and quick in locating points and pathways. I also liked the fact that Q-Puncture included OM diagnosis and even Western Medical references. Where I used to put tabs on my text books to help me save time in finding specific information, now it's just a click of a mouse! It's easy to use and packed with the acupuncture information needed to study for the California Licensing Board (the most challenging exam of its kind in the US). I highly recommend adding Q-Puncture to your study materials, as well as, a reference tool for your office.

I've seen numbers of acupuncture books and some softwares but by far, this was the best and easiest tool to learn about acupuncture. You have to see what they did with 3D technology to show the meridian points. Along with 3D illustrations, every point includes sections of "1) Where to find 2) What it does 3) When to use and finally 4) How to needle" I found these features to be the most useful and easy to understand. Other fine features included were, explanation and philosophy of Oriental medicine, demonstrations of 14 channel pathways, and therapeutic effects as well as clinical explanations of commonly diagnosed illnesses. You will find this book&software to be absolutely wonderful.

This book is the first of a two volume set on QuickTime programming on both Mac and Windows machines. This first volume is more concerned with the basics of controlling multimedia through a C program that uses the QuickTime API. You'll learn how to open, play, edit, and save a movie file. Besides just video you also learn how to use the Quicktime interface to work with images, text, timecode, and sprites. Fundamental Quicktime concepts are all introduced in this first volume. The author does all this by creating an application entitled "QTShell" that he adds to as he gradually explains each concept. This same application is used in volume two also. The author assumes the reader already knows his/her computing platform and OS, what QuickTime is, and how to program in C. This frees him to concentrate on the Hows of Quicktime programming. Both volumes of this programming guide began as a series of magazine articles, thus the style is quite accessible - it is not a terse academic style tome at all.

Tim Monroe's column in MacTech is as much a final word on QuickTime as Apple's developer docs. This book is the de facto official guide to native development with QuickTime and given the size of the QT API, you'd be hard pressed to know where to begin without it. Tim starts with a basic "shell" application that compiles and runs on Mac and Windows -- yes, Windows developers are very much part of the target audience -- and covers the basics of playing, editing, saving and exporting movies, then moves into tricky stuff like sprites (which takes four chapters), VR, and effects.

For C-language developers, this and its volume 2 companion are the books you want. I wrote a book on QuickTime for Java (QTJ being just a wrapper around the C calls), and I wish this book had been out before I started, because it would have saved me a lot of research time figuring out what my code was calling and why it worked the way it did. In fact, those who've mastered QTJ can probably read this book and do a mental "port" from C to Java to figure out material I didn't cover.

Recommended? Hell, if you're in the QT space, this is *required* reading.