Working with Audio on the Web in Java

Printer QR Code in Java Working with Audio on the Web

Audio works much like video on the Web You can link to a sound file or you can embed the file into your page, and either way, your visitors need to have the right player to hear it You find instructions for both in the following section Adding Multimedia Files to Your Web Page The following sections provide a brief description of the most common digital audio formats:

By far the most successful audio compression format, MP3 comes from the same family as MPEG and supports streaming audio Most music you can download from the Internet is in MP3 format, and it is clearly the first choice of most Web developers File extension: mp3 Web site: wwwmp3com

Anyone who s had to sit through someone else s amateur home movies knows why video editing software is so crucial Too many blurry, shaky images, stomach-wrenching zooms, and abrupt pans, and you find yourself clutching the arms of your chair and hoping you don t have to sit through much more Even professionals fall prey to these common mistakes, which is why most pros shoot at about a 20:1 ratio that is, they expect to have to shoot 20 minutes of tape to capture 1 usable minute of video Be kind to your audience and do what the pros do ruthlessly cut your video down to only the very best moments, and arrange segments so that they have a logical beginning, middle, and end Every program listed in this chapter lets you perform basic editing and cutting as well as create fade-ins The programs also support the addition of special features, such as opening titles, voiceovers, and music tracks As you go up the price scale, you add features for creating special effects, slow motion, fast motion, and even filters that can make your video look like a scratchy sepia-toned 1920s-era silent movie The following are some of the most popular video editing programs on the market today: Adobe Premiere: This high-end videoediting program is comparable to the Hollywood standard, Final Cut Pro, but it s not quite as expensive and it works on a PC To use this program effectively, you need a very fast computer, gigabytes of available hard drive space, and a lot of free time Adobe Premiere Elements: This new lite version of Adobe Premier is much better suited to a home user It costs about $600 less (retailing for about $100) and the menus and options are much simpler to learn Unless you ve managed to get your mitts on a $30,000 high-definition video camera, Premiere Elements is more than enough for your needs Pinnacle Studio Plus: This program is aimed at the prosumer market, meaning it s designed for people who have some familiarity with shooting and editing video and want a lot of features but aren t professionals and don t have a company expense account to cover their costs Studio Plus does the basics, capturing video and allowing you to cut and paste scenes, dub audio, and create titles It also includes some special effects (such as slow motion, burring, and stretching an image) and even a blue screen feature, which lets you film against a blue background and then combine video files to create movies of things that aren t possible, such as your hamster dunking a basketball as skillfully as Michael Jordan Ulead VideoStudio Pro: Lite versions of Ulead s products are often bundled with capture cards or other hardware and provide basic video-editing features Ulead also produces MediaStudio, which is an audio program You can add plug-ins that enable VideoStudio to work with highdefinition video and do basic retouching of the images iMovie: Part of the Apple iLife suite and an excellent video-editing program, iMovie is available only for the Macintosh Many Macs now come with iLife already installed, so if you have a newer Mac you probably already have this editing program Acclaimed for its intuitive interface, iMovie is fully integrated with the rest of iLife, which includes iPhoto, and works seamlessly with Mac s DVD and CD creation software