Multimedia Information Systems Books

iPhone SDK Development

Bill Dudney, Chris Adamson, Marcel Molina

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Packing the power of desktop applications into a small mobile device, the iPhone SDK offers developers the ability to create dynamic, visually-appealing, and highly-capable mobile applications, using the same APIs and tools that Apple uses for its own applications.

However, harnessing that power means learning new tools, new APIs, and even a whole new programming language.

iPhone SDK Development is a Pragmatic guide to get you started developing applications for iPhone and iPod touch. With it, you'll get a complete understanding of the tools and techniques needed to succeed on the platform:

* Use the XCode IDE to manage your source code, images, sounds, database files, and other application resources, building your app and deploying it onto your own device for testing.

* Develop your user interface the visual, code-free way, with Interface Builder.

* Master the iPhone's unique user interface components, including tables, tab bars, navigation bars, and the multi-touch interface.

* Connect your iPhone to the outside world with networking, exploit the power of a relational database with SQLite, and rock out with first-class support for audio and video.

* Make use of the iPhone's unique mobile APIs, like geolocation and the motion-sensing accelerometer

* Use XCode's powerful performance and debugging tools to eliminate memory leaks, zombies, and other hazards.

* Understand the process for packaging your application for end-user distribution through Apple's App Store.

With explanations of the big picture and an eye to the little details that you'll need, _iPhone SDK Development_ will help you succeed on today's most important mobile platform.

Apple Pro Training Series: Compressor 3 Quick-Reference Guide (Apple Pro Training Series)

Brian Gary

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Whether you’re distributing dailies, authoring a commercial DVD, or prepping video clips for the Web, Compressor is essential for creating quality digital content. In this quick-reference guide, professional filmmaker Brian Gary reveals essential techniques for audio and video compression. Learn timesaving batch-encoding and test-clip workflows. Import files in Final Cut Pro and QuickTime formats and encode them for authoring in DVD Studio Pro. Use advanced codecs like H.264 to create standard- and high-definition content. Compress content for the latest hardware platforms, including AppleTV, iPod, and HD DVD. Export interactive podcasts. Add timecode window burns and animated logos during encoding. Take advantage of job-management strategies, such as job chaining. And save time with Compressor’s ability to handle hours of encoding unattended and then notify you by email when it’s done. With this guide you’ll master the art of minimizing file size and maximizing image quality.

Home Theater Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools (Hacks)

Brett McLaughlin

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It might be the long lines at the theater, the $4.00 for a small bag of popcorn, or the cutting-edge technology that's now so readily available to the home market. Whatever the reason, the home theater market today is booming like the soundtrack to Star Wars! Want proof? A Google search for home theater reveals over three million results. Yikes!

It's simply undeniable: More and more people prefer watching their favorite movies, television shows, and videos from the comfort of their own sofas and couches. What's also undeniable is the inexperience of most people who choose to install or upgrade their home theaters.

Until now, the knowledge, technique, and experiences of those who've encountered similar conditions to yours could only be accessed through laborious web searches, stacks of magazines, and water cooler conversations. Home Theater Hacks from O'Reilly is the perfect remedy for this group.

A smart collection of insider tips and tricks, Home Theater Hacks covers home theater installation from start to finish, purchase to experience. Just imagine: no frustrating trial-and-error process and better yet, no expensive appointments with installation experts. Home Theater Hacks prevents both by imparting down-and-dirty technique not found anywhere else.

The book begins with a quick glossary of terms so you can speak the lingo when you go shopping, and then dives right into hush-hush, insider tricks. It's all covered where to find the right audio and video components, how to deal with speakers and wiring, understanding cable connectivity, mastering remote controls, how to fully grasp TiVo, and so much more. And to top it off, each of these insider tips is presented in a concise yet delightfully entertaining style. Bringing the Jurassic Park dinosaurs into your living room has never been so easy!

A seasoned veteran with numerous O'Reilly titles under his belt, author Brett McLaughlin leaves no stone unturned in helping you customize your home theater experience to your own personal environment.

Intelligent Network Video: Understanding Modern Video Surveillance Systems

Fredrik Nilsson, Communications Axis

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This is the first resource to provide detailed coverage of advanced digital networking and intelligent video capabilities and optimization. It addresses general concepts, explains why IP-based systems provide better image quality and more scalable and flexible systems at a lower cost, and provides current information on cameras and DVRs. It also discusses frame rate control, indoor/outdoor installations, and specifications on MPEG-4 and other digital video formats. The book is accompanied by a CD containing tools for deploying and optimizing an installation. It is an essential resource for security system designers, consultants, and intallers, as well as business and security managers.

Audio Editing with Adobe Audition

Richard Riley

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A great how-to book for Cool Edit Pro / Adobe Audition 5 out of 5 stars.
26 of 27 people found this review helpful.

I was in need of a resource to explain how to use a trial copy of Adobe Audition, the name Adobe gave to the software when they acquired it from Syntrillium. As of this writing, there don't seem to be any books on this subject under the new product name, so I tried Richard Riley's, hoping it would fill my need. I was not disappointed! His book does an excellent job of explaining how to put this software, by whatever name, to use. The items covered in the book appear to apply to both the prior Cool Edit and newer Audition products, so it should serve owners of the software under either name equally well. It provided a great deal of "put it to use" information, and was an excellent value.

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Richard Riley continues to follow the evolution of this classic program. Following the successes of Audio Editing with Cool Edit and Audio Editing with Adobe Audition, this brand new title covers Adobe Audition 2.0.

Beginners and experienced users will find invaluable information on managing and developing wareforms, using non-native effects and processes, using loops and found sound, dealing with unexpected issues such as clicking and popping tracks or lost presets and replacing or editing video soundtracks.

Detailed information on audio standards is provided as a background for finishing and producing audio along with procedures for submitting audio for external mastering. There's even a section on using Adobe Audition outside the studio and in theatres and live productions alongside essential information for users of Microsoft Vista.

The Avid Handbook: Advanced Techniques, Strategies, and Survival Information for Avid Editing Systems, 5th Edition

Greg Staten, Steve Bayes

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Brimming with workflow efficiencies for the experienced editor, The Avid Handbook teaches you the hows and whys of operating the system in order to reach streamlined, creative end solutions. The book emphasizes time-saving techniques, shortcuts, and workflow procedures- the true keys to getting a job done.

The book has also been updated to include new information on HD formats and workflows, color-correction and grading capability enhancements, MXF media standardization, and much more.

Also new to this edition are an 8 page 4-color insert, adding depth to the color-correction lessons, as well as running sidebars throughout the book, calling out time-saving tips and techniques.

* New information on High-Definition tools and production workflows, allowing you to complete your HD projects in the most efficient manner
* New details on product updates and innovations such as HD, color-grading and capabilities, file-based video formats, and file-based instead of tape-based output
* The new edition features sidebars throughout that call out time-saving tips and techniques, as well as a new 8 page 4-color insert for more effective display with the color correction lessons

Multimedia: Making it Work, Seventh Edition

Tay Vaughan

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Thoroughly Updated for the Latest Advances in Multimedia

Learn the fundamental concepts and essential skills required for a successful career in multimedia from this bestselling guide. Multimedia: Making It Work, Seventh Edition shows you how to use text, images, sound, and video to deliver compelling messages and content in meaningful ways. You will learn to design, organize, and produce multimedia projects such as CD-ROMs, DVDs, and professional web sites. Each chapter includes step-by-step instructions, full-color illustrations and screenshots, self-quizzes, and hands-on projects.

Inside this book, you will learn how to:

• Master the building blocks of multimedia, including text, images, audio, video, and animation
• Record, process, and edit digital audio
• Work with bitmap, vector, and 3-D images
• Create vivid computer animations
• Shoot and edit digital video
• Select the best hardware, software, and authoring tools for your needs
• Design dynamic Web content
• Determine the scope and cost of a multimedia project
• Acquire the appropriate content and best talent
• Prepare and deliver a professional multimedia project

Each chapter includes:

• Learning objectives
• Full-color illustrations
• Helpful notes, tips, and warnings
• Chapter summaries and key term lists
• End-of-chapter quizzes and lab projects

Digital Video Compression (with CD-ROM)

Peter Symes

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This CD-ROM with algorithms, encoders, and practice clips is your one-stop guide to the art and science of digital video compression! Without video compression, video streaming - one of the Internet's great innovations - would be nothing more than a pipe dream. That's why if digitizing video imagery is part of your work or hobby, here's an info-packed volume you need handy at all times: McGraw-Hill's "Digital Video Compression." Written by a renowned expert in digital technology, "Digital Video Compression" offers comprehensive coverage on a vast range of digital media technologies and standards. It delivers everything you need to understand the techniques, tricks, and confusing protocols of compression, as well as: fundamentals of compression; MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 compression standards; JVT / H.264 / MPEG-4 Part 10 - learn the details of the just-released compression standard; and much more!Plus, you get an invaluable CD-ROM of compression tools, encoders, and video clips for practice. With "Digital Video Compression", you're sure to stay out in front of this exploding technology! The book covers: What Is Compression? An Introduction to Images; Entropy Coding; Protective Coding; Transforms; Quantization; JPEG; Motion Compensation; MPEG-1; MPEG-2; MPEG-4; JVT / H.264 / MPEG-4 Part 10; MPEG-7 and MPEG-21; Pro-MPEG and MPEG Operating Ranges; DV Compression; Wavelets; JPEG2000; Audio Compression; and Streaming Media.

Real World Digital Audio (Real World)

Peter Kirn

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No matter what part of the musical spectrum you come from—whether you’re playing in a band, composing, or DJing—if you’re using a computer (or wondering whether you should be), to get the results you want from your digital studio you’ll need reliable information.

Real World Digital Audio is a comprehensive resource—a book and DVD combo—that offers practical advice on making great music with modern technologies—a valuable reference whatever your musical genre or preferred audio application. You’ll learn how digital sound works, and then apply that knowledge to getting your music to sound the way you want. From recording, mixing, and producing CDs, musical scores, and video soundtracks, to performing live with your laptop, this is the definitive guide to the art of creating digital music.

Real World Digital Audio will show you how to

• Choose the right software and hardware to fit your musical direction—and your budget
• Optimize your setup for maximum recording quality and reliability
• Choose and strategically place microphones for different recording situations
• Use loops and grooves to create backing tracks, DJ, and enhance live performances
• Master MIDI and audio editing techniques to make expressive, polished tracks
• Create dynamic sounds with audio effects, synthesizers, and soft synths
• Generate publication-quality notated scores on your desktop
• Mix, master, and share professional recordings, online music, and video soundtracks

The DVD included with this book is a cross-platform data DVD compatible with both Mac and Windows computers. The DVD contains over two gigabytes of sound content, instruments, and software tools that you can use immediately in your music, and to explore topics in the book.

Companion Web site at www.realworlddigitalaudio.com includes interviews with audio professionals, updated information, and more.

"Writing about digital audio is like shooting at a moving target. But Peter Kirn has managed to score a bullseye with Real World Digital Audio."
—Ernie Rideout, Editor-in-Chief, Keyboard magazine

Geometric Tools for Computer Graphics (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics)

Philip Schneider, David H. Eberly

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Reinventing the wheel is a terrible waste of time, yet legions of computer programmers do exactly that every day. Geometric Tools for Computer Graphics gives the working graphics programmer a vast collection of programming examples, complex code snippets explained and ready to use. Each chapter is filled with more than just code examples--the explanations needed to understand why these examples work the way they do are given by authors with experience both in writing and in the field.

There is nothing here for the casual graphics programmer and everything for the serious 2-D and 3-D programmer. Thirteen chapters, three appendices, and a three-column index that spans over 30 pages cover everything about computer-graphic geometry, from the basics of using matrices and linear systems to intersecting 3-D objects.

The appendices alone are worth the price: "Numerical Methods," "Trigonometry," and "Basic Formulas for Geometric Primitives" are treasures filled with hard-core examples of the kind that can be put to use right out of the box. Less experienced programmers will find these to be invaluable references, but then there's the rest of the book--nearly 1,000 pages loaded with examples and theory, page after page of information written in a clear, concise voice.

Any hard-core graphics programmer will appreciate the value of the examples presented here, as well as the discussion of theory. After all, there's no need to waste time experimenting with code once the theory is known. Geometric Tools represents the best of both worlds: discussion of theory and code examples built on and culled from years of experience. --Mike Caputo