QuickTime

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Contents 1 TECHNICAL INFORMATION 2 TOOLS 3 Examples 4 Other streaming solutions 5 Converting DVD to QuickTime 6 Adding text tracks to movies

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

• QuickTime Tutorials

• Changes in how IE uses movies

• Creating interactive QuickTime movies

• QTSS manual from Apple

• QuickTime wiki

• Rocketboom video tools

• Webcast Captioning

• Luminance Issues

• Color issues

• Black and White levels

• 3ivx codec tests

• Relationship between the ISO, MP4, AVC, MPEG-21 File Formats and [1]

• Create Poster Movies

• x264

• QT Media Links and [2] and [3]

• QuickTime notes, rough

• QuickTime Streaming Server rough notes

• Microsoft changes how IE plays media

• Wireless Operators Open to Streaming

TOOLS

Streamclip Converts between different video formats

ffmpegX, another good coversion tool

MovieWorks, we need to evaluate this, $80 educational cost

Creating media skins:

http://www.ezedia.com/support/resources/media_skins/

Tattoo

Go Live

Live Stage Pro

QT Bridge Some great little tools and links

Navicast Movie Publishing and management tool

Frameline application for video notation, dynamic content navigation & media file management, uses MPEG4, MPEG7 and MPEG47

mpgtx A Mac editor for cutting, joining, demuxing MPEG files

iStopMotion Stop Motion and Time Lapse capture software

MovieVideoChart Mac only

Examples

NOSSDAV 2005 Conference and How they did it

m-Learning and their weblog

Soma, its Online Streaming Application, and Free Siggraph Access

Athena Web Research and Science in Europe

IMax 3D trailer

Color sampling issues

http://www.adamwilt.com/pix-sampling.html

http://www.nattress.com/Chroma_Investigation/chromasampling.htm

Other streaming solutions

Democracy combines Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds, BitTorrent and video blog technology to enable users to subscribe to and watch full screen video on their computer. A built-in channel guide helps you navigate the content that is available.

Helix

Flash, Physics Flash Animations, Flash tutorials

Windows Media

Windows Media VC-1 codec

University of California Television in Real Media

Converting DVD to QuickTime

I’m trying to figure out how to transfer the .vob files from a burned DVD into an editing/DVD authoring program without having to demux, recompress, etc. First, I transfer my home videos to DVD using a DVD recorder. Then, I’d like to be able to edit the .vob files to cut out unnecessary footage. I’ve tried with DVD Studio Pro without any luck.

I’d go about it this way.

Download a copy of Squared 5’s free MPEG Streamclip (available as a Universal Binary). In order to work with .vob you’ll need Apple’s $20 QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback Component. (If you have Final Cut Pro or DVD Studio Pro the MPEG-2 Playback Component is already on your Mac—it’s included with these programs.)

Drag the .vob file into MPEG Streamclip. If there are additional .vob files associated with the one you’ve dragged into the program, you’ll be asked if you’d like to import all the parts of your movie. Yes, you would.

Once in MPEG Streamclip use the Cut, Paste, and Trim commands to edit your video. Once it’s edited to your satisfaction, choose File > Save As, and save your edited file as a new .vob file (or, if you like, export it to another format such as a standard QuickTime movie, DV, AVI, or MPEG-4). iDVD and DVD Studio Pro won’t take the file but Roxio’s Toast will. Burn it in Toast and you’re good to go.

Adding text tracks to movies

You can add text tracks to QuickTime .mov files. Users can search using "Find" in QuickTime Player. Text tracks can be streamed (except chapter tracks). However, it is common to add the text track to a reference movie on a web server. (The reference movie points to the stream and is downloaded from a web server).

There is a tutorial on text tracks on Apple's site: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/texttracks.html

Using a text editor to create text tracks is tedious and error prone. Instead, strongly consider using software that adds text tracks programatically. Tools include NLEs (i.e. iMovie and Final Cut markers), interactive tools (i.e. VideoClix, LiveStage Pro, Adobe GoLive), text/captioning tools (i.e. Textation, MAGpie).

A workflow for adding text tracks to a reference movie: 1. Add/edit your text track on a copy of the original media file locally. 2. Create a reference movie to your stream. With QT Pro, open the rtsp url and save the file. Alternatively use a text editor and create a file with the .mov extension and the contents "rtsptext rtsp://<yourserver>/<path>/<media>" 3. Extract the text track from the movie created in step 1 with QuickTime Pro. 4. Add the text track to the reference movie. Put the reference movie on a web server, embed on a web page, etc.