iTunes and the iTunes music store isn’t just for Mac fans anymore. Anyone running Windows XP or 2000 can now cash-in on all the capabilities of this music store-jukebox. Our new version of iPod: The Missing Manual has been thoroughly updated and refreshed to reflect these changes.
The iPod is the world’s bestselling music player. But if you think that it’s just a music player, then you must think Clark Kent is just a newspaperman.
In this book, New York Times tech columnist J. D. Biersdorfer blows open the secret doors of this gleaming, chrome-and-white beauty. With humor and authority, she lays bare an astonishing collection of useful tips, tricks, and shortcuts like these: iPod as PalmPilot. The iPod can suck in your calendar, address book, to-do list, and notes from a Mac or PC, and then display them at the touch of a button. It also doubles as an alarm clock and stopwatch. iPod as hard drive. You can use your iPod to carry gigantic files from
place to place. iPod as e-book. The iPod makes an excellent book reader, capable of scrolling through recipes, driving directions, and even Web pages. iPod as GameBoy. The iPod’s games are perfect time-killers for waiting rooms, bus rides, and the Department of Motor Vehicles. iPod: The Missing Manual 5e is much more than it seems, too. It not only covers all iPod models for both Mac and Windows, including the super-slim 2003 series, it’s also the ultimate guide to iTunes and the new iTunes Music Store. No matter what kind of music moves you, iPod: The Missing Manual will help you get much more out of your iPod–and much more into it.

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Film Production Management details the steps involved in bringing a screenplay to the screen: organizing, staffing, budgeting, scheduling, securing locations, shooting and postproduction.
In addition to offering practical, hands-on help in dealing with each of these steps, this book also covers such issues as contracts, unions, working permits, and insurance. Sample forms used by the production manager are also included. Although it is not about film financing, it includes information on how to work within smaller budgets, enhancing its appeal to independent film makers.
This book is primarily for students and film professionals seeking a career change within the film industry, or who find themselves performing some of the tasks outlined within these pages.
This edition will include a number of revisions and updates, as well as new chapters on film festivals and marketing, training and schools, and use of the internet.
Includes sample forms used by production managers
New chapters on film festivals and marketing, training schools and use of internet

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The most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Encore DVD 2.0!
Classroom in a Book, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, helps you learn the features of Adobe software quickly and easily. Classroom in a Book offers what no other book or training program does–an official training series from Adobe Systems Incorporated, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.
Adobe Encore DVD 2.0 Classroom in a Book contains eleven lessons and a bonus DVD with lesson files. The book covers the basics of learning Adobe Encore DVD, and countless tips and techniques to help you quickly become an Adobe Encore DVD artist. You’ll learn to create DVDs with advanced features such as interactive menus, multiple audio tracks, and subtitle tracks as well as learn about Encore DVD 2.0’s new features, including a slideshow editor, flowchart, updated user interface, Adobe Bridge, automated chapter menus, and more. You can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you. (more…)

Need to take your Adobe After Effects skills to the next level? Learn After Effects the fast, efficient way! This Visual QuickPro Guide uses illustrations and in-depth explanations. You’ll be a master in time!• Takes a visual, task-based approach to teaching After Effects, using pictures to guide you through the software and show you what to do.
• Works like a reference book—you look up what you need and then get straight to work.
• Concise, straightforward steps and explanations offer the fastest way to learn tasks and concepts.
• Affordably priced, because buying a computer book shouldn’t be an investment in itself.

Through step-by-step instructions, enhanced by tips, sidebars, and plenty of visual aids, veteran video editor Antony Bolante shows you how to effectively and efficiently import and manage footage, view and edit layers, apply effects, animate type, and more. You’ll learn about key features with real-world examples of how and when features should be used, including what’s new in After Effects 7.0: motion tracker, powerful animation and keyframing controls, high quality keying and matte tools, network rendering, expert effects, nondestructive vector painting, and more! (more…)

Studio secrets, techniques, and tips For Pro Tools M-powered, LE, HD, and TDM Power Users!
This practical guide from two certified Pro Tools experts begins where most other Pro Tools books leave off–it’s like having a high-level, hands-on studio session with your very own seasoned audio pros! Jump in anywhere and discover the professional techniques and tricks you need to get recordings right the first time, every time. Want to capture a perfect acoustic guitar? Record a band? Spice up your tracks with expertly sequenced MIDI? Record Foley and edit dialog for a movie? Make your final mix go from good to radio-ready? It’s all here in compact recipes to help you record, edit, compose, and mix with ease. Just flip to the topic you need and keep the session moving.

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This book focuses largely on enabling technologies for network convergence.  A principal aim is to show where parallel functions exist in fixed and mobile voice network architectures and to explain how these functions will be combined. The authors describe the components of a future converged architecture and consider the following key aspects: QoS Requirements, Proposed Solution Architectures, Protocol and Interface options, Underlying Network Issues and Security issues.  The book also compares and describes initiatives from several standards bodies working to simplify to a clean architecture and a common set of protocols. The impact on a Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network, the preferred method of transport for the core network, will be considered in detail.

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Simplify your life with the Focal Easy Guide to Adobe ® Audition ® 2.0! This short, full-color book lives up to its name by paring down the software to its essentials. It covers only the key features and essential workflow to get you up and running in no time. When time is of the essence, less is more

Antony Brown shares his professional insight to ensure you get the most out of all the tools Adobes Audition ® 2.0 offers. All the essential areas are covered: set up, editing, audio restoration, looping content, working with video, mastering, making a CD, and much more. Featured are many workflow tips that show you how to tap into the full power of Adobe ® Audition ® 2.0 when creating your digital audio files. This is an ideal first read for any editor new to Adobe ® Audition ® 2.0.

* Quick and easy to follow with color diagrams and screenshots throughout
* Takes you step-by-step though the programme, ensuring a clear understanding and successful results
* All areas are covered: set-up, editing, looping content, mastering, finalizing, working with video, making a CD, and much more

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Ready to discover not just the how, but also the why behind some of the most powerful features in Premiere Pro? In Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 Studio Techniques, author Jacob Rosenberg goes beyond conventional stepby-step instruction to give you a real-world perspective on editing with Premiere Pro. Using Jacob’s fi lm footage or your own, you’ll learn to deliver professional-quality results. Whether you’re looking for advice on editing, effects, titles, or working with audio, this easy-to-read guide will help you add more punch to your productions.

• New features in Premiere Pro 2.0: Native HD support, native HDV editing, 24P/24PA support, DVD authoring from the timeline, expedited reviewing with Adobe Clip Notes—it’s all here. Find out how Premiere Pro has been improved, what’s been added, and how to use new features.
• Working fundamentals: From capturing video to assembling your project to the new, panel-based user interface, get an under-the-hood understanding of this powerful application.

• Advanced techniques: Through hands-on lessons, learn the ins and outs of color correction, color matching, multiple-camera editing, dynamic photomontages, titling, audio and video effects, sound mixing, professional workflows for feature films and HD productions, and more.
• Companion DVD: You’ll fi nd extra chapters and bonus reference material to read, video tutorials to watch, media fi les to use with the book’s lessons, tryout versions of Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 and Adobe Audition 2.0, and indispensable plug-ins to install.

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The only Apple-authorized guide to Final Cut Express HD 3.5, this book delivers the techniques you need to make movie magic with DV or HDV footage. Each chapter presents a complete lesson in an aspect of video editing and finishing, with hands-on projects to complete as you go. All the files you need are on the included DVD-ROM. You’ll learn how to make effective edits and adjust them precisely; create polished transitions and sophisticated composites; add audio tracks, titles, and speed and motion effects; then color-correct and finish your video for export to DVD or the Web. Whether you’re a student, a devoted amateur who’s serious about digital video, or a professional who needs a comprehensive editing program for your home computer, you’ll find everything you need to learn Final Cut Express HD 3.5 within the pages of this book. DVD-ROM includes lesson and media files for over 20 hours of training.

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Image and video segmentation is one of the most critical tasks of image and video analysis: extracting information from an image or a sequence of images. In the last 40 years, this field has experienced significant growth and development, and has resulted in a virtual explosion of published information. Advances in Image and Video Segmentation brings together the latest results from researchers involved in state-of-the-art work in image and video segmentation, providing a collection of modern works made by more than 50 experts around the world.

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