ABSTRACT
Designed for media professionals working across a broad range of formats, Developer's Digital Media Reference is an excellent reference guide for those keeping pace with this dynamic industry. As "convergence" between the World Wide Web, multimedia, and television production communities continues, there is an increased demand for professionals to familiarize themselves with the many new delivery contexts, including hybrid DVD (where digital video content and computer data live on the same disc), interactive TV, and streaming media.
Developer's Digital Media Reference covers essential technologies such as SVG (scalable vector graphics), SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language, a markup language for creating animations on the web), MPEG-4 (compression standard for streaming audio/video), and Dynamic Web Applications. In addition to serving as a quick-look-up guide, this text is organized to explain today's major media: server-based architectures, disc-based architectures, distribution architectures, and merging/shared architectures. Each topic is discussed in terms of the technological background-evolution, current tools, and production tips and techniques.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |5 pages
Introduction
section Section I|162 pages
Server-Based Architectures
chapter |6 pages
Introduction
chapter |62 pages
Streaming Video
chapter |29 pages
Motion Graphics
chapter |28 pages
Dynamic Web Applications
chapter |34 pages
Synchronized Media
section Section II|81 pages
Disc-Based Architectures
chapter |6 pages
Introduction
chapter |22 pages
DVD-ROM
chapter |31 pages
DVD Video
chapter |19 pages
DVD Audio
section Section III|154 pages
Distribution Architectures
chapter |20 pages
Introduction
chapter |45 pages
Metadata for Digital Media Distribution
chapter |48 pages
Asset and Content Management Tools and Standards
chapter |38 pages
Digital Rights Management
section |138 pages
Merged Architectures