Advanced Imaging is published eleven times a year, serving approximately 40,000 imaging professionals in fields ranging in industry from medicine to arts and sciences to broadcasting and media. These individuals work on a daily basis with all forms of digital imaging for all applications, on all computer platforms.

Advanced Imaging provides the latest information on the imaging hardware, software and peripherals that are used in capturing, displaying, manipulating and storing images. In addition details on how available imaging tools and techniques are being used by professionals at work and looks at the burgeoning industry the tools have fostered.

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* Digital media sales represent a growing market in consumer technology; in previous editions, this book has been the top-selling reference for digital video beginners
* Fully revised and completely focused on consumer digital video users and editors who have little to no experience with the equipment
* Walks readers through the basics of selecting equipment, installing software and hardware, shooting good video, getting files into a PC, editing, and outputting to the Internet, videotape, or a DVD
* CD-ROM includes trial versions of the editing software covered in the book as well as other digital video tools and sample files

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Use this book to learn how you can, at little or no expense, make virtually any movie using Machinima. The authors guide you from making your first Machinima movie to a grounding in both conventional filmmaking and Machinima technology that will let you tackle very complex film projects.

The book focuses on the following Machinima platforms:

The Sims 2: Arguably the most popular Machinima platform of all time, The Sims 2 allows you to tell stories ranging from romance to noir action.
World Of Warcraft: Tell your own tales of heroism in the world of Azeroth, following in the footsteps of award-winning Machinima creators and even the makers of South Park.
Medieval 2: Total War - This astonishing new game allows you to create Lord of the Rings-scale medieval battle films using just a home computer!
MovieStorm: For the first time, unleash the power of Machinima as a professional user using a fully-featured, fully-licensed commercial Machinima platform.

You’ll be introduced to all aspects of Machinima production, from live filming in a game through the creation of sets, props and characters, as well as the basics of cinematography, storytelling and sound design.

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* With a generous dash of humor and fun, bestselling author Dan Gookin shows people how to select the right machine and tackle typical laptop challenges
* Laptop sales recently surpassed those of desktop machines-a trend that seems likely to continue
* A must for laptop newbies as well as road warriors who need to get the most out of their machines
* Covers synchronizing with the desktop, accessing the desktop remotely, coordinating e-mail pickup between two machines, wireless networking, managing power, and securing a laptop

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Visio Professional Test Drive plus migration tools on CD-ROM

Plain-English explanations of trees, forests, and other Active Directory concepts

Harness the power of Active Directory for everything from migration to network management If you’re an IT professional, Active Directory is probably the one feature of Windows 2000 you’re most excited about. But because it’s so different from NT, it’s also a little scary. Relax! With this friendly guide at your side, you’ll quickly get a handle on this powerful network management tool — and jumpstart your deployment of Windows 2000. all this on the bonus CD-ROM 60-day Test Drive version of Visio Professional and Visio Enterprise Trial versions of Entevo DirectMigrate2000, EtherPeek, 4.0, EtherHelp, TokenPeek, and TokenHelp Plus all original Visio files for figures in the book so that you don’t have to create your Active Directory diagrams from scratch! PC with Pentium 90 or faster

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Engineered Systems (ES) Magazine provides smart, sustainable solutions for mechanical engineering projects. Whether it’s a renovation or new construction, ES delivers new ideas to help your commercial, institutional, industrial, and government buildings achieve LEED and Energy Star certification. Written by engineers for engineers.

Each monthly magazine is written in technically sound language, yet retains a non-theoretical application-oriented approach to the commercial/industrial/institutional HVACR markets. Engineered Systems examines the latest changes in the design, specification, maintenance and management of non-residential HVACR systems and components.

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The audience for this book is beginning/novice web developers with a knowledge of HTML but not of JavaScript. The book begins with an introduction to basic JavaScript language features and then proceeds to work through a number of examples according to category (images, frames, browser windows, forms, regular expressions and strings, user events, and cookies). After, there are two chapters on AJAX fundamentals. (more…)