This definitive book/CD-ROM package gives you highly accessible, one-stop information, tutorials, and software for creating, editing, and integrating your own digital video for multimedia, corporate marketing, home video specials, employee or customer training and information, public relations, advertising, and broadcast. Packed with authoritative information, tutorials, real-world techniques, a good dose of humor and actual software, Desktop Video Studio has everything you need to create professional-quality video productions of your own. The book features expert advice on setting up a desktop video system (including reviews and guidance on choosing hardware and software for particular uses); capturing and producing video; preparing video for various uses, including multimedia, broadcast, videotape, and more; and professional hints and techniques that everyone can use. It also clarifies and offers solutions for some of the stickier issues of today's desktop video technology, including cross-platform considerations, file formats, and compression choices. Included: -- The advantages and pitfalls of competing hardware platforms, software tools and compression technologies -- Cross-platform video standards -- Capturing and compressing video and audio -- Editing video and audio -- Using video and audio in multimedia -- Video cards and "total solutions" -- Digital video sources -- Shooting it yourself -- Professional applications and case studies -- Advanced tips and techniques -- Expert product reviews: what to buy for your particular needs -- Bibliography and references -- Guest perspectives from some of the most accomplished and well-known experts in the field. The CD-ROM contains all the software you need to produce professional-quality video, including the full retail versions of Apple Media Tool 1.2, Macromedia Director 4.0 for Macintosh and Windows, Adobe Photoshop 3.0 for Macintosh and Windows, SoundEdit 16 for the Macintosh, Sonic Foundry Sound Forge for Windows, and Adobe Premiere 4.0 for Macintosh and Windows (all of which can be test-driven, purchased, and installed right off the disc in the U.S. and Canada), as well as hundreds of megabytes of clip media and utilities, animated tutorials, and a searchable, electronic version of the book (see the inside flap for details). Andrew Soderberg is president of Toucan Studios, whose current client list includes Apple Computer, Cascom International, Fractal Design, Domark Software, Spectral Innovations, and others. He worked at Atari in the 1980s developing interactive laserdisc-based kiosks before joining Apple Computer in 1990 as its Evangelist responsible for the creation of QuickTime hardware by third-party developers. Tom Hudson is executive producer of Toucan Studios, and has worked as an award-winning instructional designer and producer for Atari and Apple Computer.