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Media Creation & Delivery

We realized that Podcast Producer would provide a very cost-efficient, professional, and fast way to deliver communications and training to our dispersed workforce. Captain Mike James, CIO for Orange County Sheriff's Department

Engage and inform audiences.

Whether you need to create and deliver cutting-edge multimedia experiences for your customers, broadcast video via the Internet, or use the latest podcasting technologies to train your internal staff or deliver content to large audiences, Apple provides a robust set of digital media solutions. An industry pioneer in new media, Apple provides a comprehensive set of services and a ubiquitous streaming media platform, all offered as an integral part of Mac OS X Leopard Server.

Quicktime

QuickTime: the cross-platform platform.

Apple’s innovative QuickTime technology provides a complete solution for creating content for mobile devices, broadcasting on the Internet, or developing rich-media applications. When you distribute your media in QuickTime, you automatically gain access to a massive platform. QuickTime is the powerful technology that brings rich media capabilities to applications like iTunes.

In touch and engaging.

QuickTime enables you to create immersive, interactive experiences for your audiences using a variety of media types and formats beyond audio and video. It is a container-like format that enables you to combine almost any variety of media—audio, video, still images, text, VR, chapters, and even alternate languages—into a single movie. That’s why many of today’s leading authoring, multimedia, and entertainment applications rely on QuickTime. QuickTime also contains a rich set of developer APIs for handling almost any audio, video, or media task, so you can easily make your applications multimedia-enabled with QuickTime.

The brawn behind the brains.

Media Broadcast

QuickTime Streaming Server and QuickTime Broadcaster provide a complete, integrated solution available with Mac OS X Server for encoding, broadcasting, and streaming multimedia over the Internet. QuickTime Broadcaster captures and encodes QuickTime content in the latest media formats, including MP3, 3GPP, MPEG-4, and ACC audio. When combined with QuickTime 7, QuickTime Broadcaster supports broadcasting in the H.264 video codec, providing stunning quality live streams at remarkably low data rates. QuickTime Broadcaster also can broadcast in full, 640 X 480, 30 frames-per-second video to offer a TV-like experience to audiences on Macs or PCs. Once its work is done, QuickTime Broadcaster delivers the resulting feed to QuickTime Streaming Server for live streaming.

With QuickTime Streaming Server, your organization can stream news, entertainment, educational content, and more over the Internet using RTP/RTSP—all with no per stream license fees. The QuickTime platform provides a cost effective, end-to-end solution for the creation, delivery, and playback of standards-based multimedia, including the H.264 codec. Together, these two servers provide an inexpensive, end-to-end solution for delivering live events over the Internet.

Podcast

End-to-end podcast creation, production, and distribution.

In addition to live streaming events delivered online, the world of rich media is increasingly moving into podcasting. Podcast Producer is a complete, end-to-end solution for encoding, publishing, and distributing high-quality podcasts. Ideal for employee training, delivery of content to large audiences, presentations—or whatever audio or video podcasts your organization requires. Podcast Producer simplifies the process of recording content, encoding, and publishing podcasts for playback in iTunes and on iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV.

With Podcast Producer, your organization can take advantage of a solution that enables users to create high-quality sound recordings and cleanly produced videos. The automated workflow engine in Podcast Producer automatically converts audio and video content into the proper formats for the devices and platforms you specify. Podcast Producer can even automatically send out emails to announce each new podcast.

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Snow Leopard Server Evaluation

Snow Leopard disc.

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Online Seminars

Third-Party Products

Looking for additional products that complement your Apple solution? Here are just a few of the many solutions designed for the Mac from third-party developers.

Resources

Streamlined film and video production.

Apple’s media creation solutions extend to the film and video workflow with Final Cut Server media asset management and workflow automation software. With Final Cut Server, video and film producers can easily find assets, share work seamlessly, and automate routine tasks. Final Cut Server is scalable client/server software that can be used on its own or together with complementary media asset management solutions such as Building4Media FORK Production Suite and BrighTech MediaBeacon.