Windows Media 9 Series by Example

Videographers can harness the potential that WM9 offers to deliver high-quality video and multimedia via DVD and over the Internet. Illustrated examples and tutorials demonstrate the basic functionality of WM9 as well as the options available to advanced users who wish to design new applications with the software development kit. Professional videographers will find this book to be a practical way to learn how to set up players, encoders, and servers and how to capture and compress video so they can use WM9 with the applications they use every day, including Powerpoint, Premiere, After Effects, and Avid.

Videographers can harness the potential that WM9 offers to deliver high-quality video and multimedia via DVD and the Internet. This work contains illustrated examples and tutorials that demonstrate the basic functionality of WM9 and the options available to advanced users who wish to design new applications with the software development kit.

Section I; Chapter 1 What's New in Windows Media 9 Series; Chapter 2 Setting up the WM9 Player, Encoder, Server, and SDK; Chapter 3 Video Capture in WM9; Chapter 4 Compression and Transcoding with WM9; Chapter 5 Network Streaming with WM9; Chapter 6 DRM, WM9 Style; Section II; Chapter 7 Playing WM9 files in PowerPoint, Producer, and Internet Explorer; Chapter 8 Working with the WM9 Software Development Kit (SDK); Chapter 9 Making DVD Movies with WM9 and MS Movie Maker 2; Chapter 10 WM9 with Third-Party Nonlinear Editors; Chapter 11 Using WM9 with SnapStream Personal Video Station; Chapter 12 Producing WM9 Content for Handhelds; Chapter 13 WM9 Audio Techniques; Chapter 14 Encoding with the WM9 Screen Codec; Section III; Chapter 15 WM9 Integration in Consumer Electronics; Chapter 16 Late-Breaking News & Production Tools; Chapter 17 How Movielink Uses Windows Media 9 Series; Chapter 18 Standing in the Shadows of Motown: A WM9 Feature;