Multimedia Books

I first encountered this book in a masters course at FSU. After reading it I got that excited feeling that I get when I encounter an astounding book. I was sick and tired of computer books that are product driven and programming content crazy. I hadn't seen any books tell you what you could do with this programming you just learned. This book shows you the steps it takes to develop your idea, from knowing your audience to post-production. Now you can learn not only that techie stuff everyone else does now you can know what to do with it.

I have had the opportunity to use this as a textbook as I have studied under Dr. Counts. However, it is an excellent resource for anyone who is interested in learning about designing and producing multimedia. Dr. Counts is the consummate professional in both the arts and technical production of film and multimedia in general. I highly recommend this book and any other publication by Dr. Counts.

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Hi, I'm Jeff Burger, author of Multimedia for Decision Makers. A special "howdy" to my regular readers in NewMedia magazine! Don't have time for the inch-thick tomes on multimedia? This book is for you! At only 170 pages, it's gives you the technology overview you need, not the gory bits and bytes. More importantly, it answers questsions like: How can it be used in marketing, training, retail, and presentations? How are my peers and competitors using it? Where's it all going? It even has running summaries down the margins, making it even easier to get to the information you need fast. Think of it as an executive brief on multimedia in business! Then if you want more detail, check out my other two books. The Desktop Multimedia Bible (Addison-Wesley) - a best-seller in the field - gives you fundamental info on the technology, tools, and techniques of graphics, audio, video, computers, and interactive technology. My latest book, Multimedia Studio for Windows (Random House), details the top Windows multimedia productions tools and includes a CD-ROM with free test drive versions of the software along with tutorials from yours truly. Enjoy! Jeff Burger

This is rather suitable for beginner to multimedia. As it illustrate the wide range of the technique used.

The book addresses how to use multimedia in higher education based on how to make teaching and learning more effective and efficient. In each chapter, the authors describe goals, general information, raise questions, summarize guidelines and provide examples, resources.
The questions are very thought-provoking, the guidelines are quite practical. The information and resources are very informative. And there are numerous insights about education, techonology, learning and teaching theories that the authors shared with readers.
A great book worth to buy.

Multimedia Legal Handbook is a complete summary of all the issues involved in developing, protecting, and distributing multimedia works. It addresses both the traditional legal issues that impact multimedia and the unique issues raised by the digital revolution.

The Handbook gives you a comprehensive review of the subject - from licensing of traditional content - to the problems posed by the scanning, sampling, and electronic communication of such content. Development, protection, and distribution of multimedia works are governed by several areas of the law including copyright, trade secret, patent, trademark, unfair competition, privacy and publicity rights, and defamation. The author covers these legal areas as they apply to digital multimedia works and to the individual components of the works, including characters, musical recordings, motion pictures, software, and more.

You'll find a thorough review of the traditional and digital legal issues raised, practical methods for protecting rights, and step-by-step guidance on licensing content from other industries.

Students in my Multimedia Design course really appreciate the author's inclusion of materials they can adapt to their classrooms now. Too many times I, myself, have bought books weighted in theory and short on practical applications. Not so this time. Kudos to you for providing straight-forward information and specific examples. One suggestion, though, is an update soon. Some of the material has become dated and students will soon lose interest if instructors must constantly explain how what was said in the book is no longer true.

An excellent and up to date handbook on the burning issue of protecting your digital content. The burgeoning popularity of p2p networks like Morpheus and Kazaa for unauthorised copying and dissemination of audio and [increasingly] video gives urgency to the issue.

The book's chapters fall broadly into two types. One is about encrypting your data so that only authorised customers can access these with some type of key that you furnish.

The other main theme of the book is watermarking or fingerprinting. I use the terms synonymously here. Here, the problem is not so much copying, but for you to later prove that a particular file contains your content. There's some bloody ingenious stuff in these chapters. All about surreptiously embedding a watermark that does not detract from the content's functionality. So that, for example, if it is your audio file, a listener won't notice any degradation. Likewise in imagery. But you can expect a technical opponent to remove your watermark. If it is a JPG file, perhaps he might compress it slightly, and hope this does the removal? The chapters go deeply into this back and forth of tactics.

Expert publications accessible even by the general public are very rare, but Dr. Lu managed to compile an excellent book that exposes in a very professional way the different aspects of multimedia security. In an easy reading and very understandable manner the key topics are being introduced to the reader, providing not only the basic concepts, but also a solid base to build on. Copyright protection, authentication, and fingerprinting of images, audio, video, and documents are only a few of the topics that are introduced and explained in Multimedia Security. A book not to miss on your bookshelf!