Shockwave Studio Designing Multimedia for the Web

By Bob Schmitt
January 1900
Pages: 200
ISBN 10: 1-56592-231-X | ISBN 13: 9781565922310

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Book description

This book shows how to create compelling and functional Shockwave movies for Web sites by examining projects of leading multimedia developers and teaching -- by example -- many of their tricks for using Director. Covers techniques for reducing the byte size of movies, avoiding problems with color palettes, using Net-specific Lingo, and using streaming Shockwave audio. Includes CD-ROM with dozens of actual movies by leading Web developers.
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This book, the second title in the new Web Review Studio series, shows how to create compelling and functional Shockwave movies for Web sites. The author focuses on actual Shockwave movies, showing how the movies were created. The book provides and explains the actual Lingo source code for the movies. It takes users from creating simple time-based Shockwave animations to writing complex logical operations that take full advantage of Director's power. Additional topics include: creating leaner movies, using color palettes, exploring Net-specific Lingo and audio compression. Foreword by Marc Canter. Lavishly illustrated with over 250 full-color figures. The CD-ROM includes dozens of source Director files that you can open and examine and demo versions of Director for Macintosh and Windows. The Web Review Studio series -- published by O'Reilly & Associates' affiliate company, Songline Studios, publishers of the groundbreaking Web sites Web Review and Ferndale -- demystifies the complexities of publishing multimedia on the Web. The series is aimed at creative Web professionals and enthusiasts -- the people creating graphics, animation, sound and multimedia on the Web. The first two books, Shockwave Studio and Gif Animation Studio, cover two hot technologies for Web animation. Both include CDs with demo and free software, example files, etc.

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Media reviews "Shockwave is, indeed, an excellent tool providing a bang-up method of making Web pages look fantastic. Schmitt's book does an excellent job of showing you the basics as well as some of the more advanced techniques. He does a great job explaining how each technique applies to the finished product. Sometimes tutorial books show you how to do many things but they never get down to how you could use these features on your own page. Shmitt, however, does a fine job of giving you the information you really want and will really use.

"The book has some excellent tips on such things as making movies smaller so they will download faster, and how to correct palette problems so your application looks good on all platforms. I found these tips exciting and most useful on my own Web page. One aspect of this book that I found most impressive was its length...200 very useful pages....

"Shockwave Studio sticks to the information you want to read about: From animating and making smaller movies using Shockwave to 'avoiding palette problems and implementing audio compression with Shockwave'. The important elements of design for the WEB are covered and often graphically illustrated which is but one of the things I like the most.

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