It’s the event of the year for new media professionals.

In fact, more than 3500 people attended QuickTime Live! in 2000 to hobnob with QuickTime masters and network with each other. This year, on October 8-11, the third annual QuickTime Live! conference offers even more to pique the interest of new media pros, including 6 full-day workshops, 44 conference sessions, “birds of a feather” peer group sessions, and a product-packed QuickTime exhibit showcase.

If you develop or author using QuickTime (or you’re thinking about doing so), this conference is a must-attend.

Ready for some new music? Each Monday, Epic Records will broadcast—exclusively in QuickTime—a brand new, full-length track from one of the label’s hottest artists.

Epic kicks off New Music Mondays on July 30 with Jennifer Lopez, featuring her smoking hot new video, “I’m Real.”

Following JLo on August 6 is Bliss 66, the hard-driving new rock sextet from Detroit, including an audio selection from their debut album, “Trip To The 13th.”

So tune in and rock out each week to the latest from Epic Records, starting this Monday.

Just what does it take to renovate a townhouse built in 1865? Ask hosts Norm Abrams and Steve Thomas of the PBS favorite “This Old House,” who supervised restoration of a historic three-story structure near Bunker Hill in Charlestown, Massachusetts.

In this WGBH netcast, you can explore the house before and after renovation with QuickTime VR, and you can also watch time-lapse footage of the meticulous restoration from start to finish.

And that’s not all. This is the first netcast created by WGBH using “media skins,” an important new feature of Apple’s QuickTime 5. Well-designed media skins like this one give viewers a spiffy interactive interface that makes navigating content a breeze. Take a look and see how easy it is to browse the QuickTime movies on This Old House using this new feature.

He was just a neglected British orphan living a miserable existence with his aunt, uncle and cousin. Until, that is, an enchanted owl brought him a mysterious letter that changed his life forever.

After a train trip that starts at track 9 3/4, Harry Potter finds himself a first-year junior wizard at Hogwarts School of Magic. In fact, Harry learns that he’s already famous—and has an important destiny to fulfill.

In this new extended-length film trailer, Warner Bros. offers a delightful glimpse into “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” the first in the beloved series of Harry Potter adventures by J.K. Rowling. Catch the magic on November 16 in U.S. theaters everywhere.

Do We Detect a Trend?
At age 16, Mia Thermopolis, a brainy but socially inept San Francisco teenager, learns that she’s not exactly who she thinks she is.

It seems that Mia’s the product of an affair between her mother and the crown prince of a small European country. When the prince dies, Mia must choose between her life as an average San Francisco teen or as a princess stepping up to the throne. To help prepare her for her new role, the awkward girl begins taking royalty lessons from her European grandmother.

Disney and director Garry Marshall (“Pretty Woman”) bring us “The Princess Diaries,” a modern-day Pygmalion for the teenage set. The film stars Anne Hathaway, Julie Andrews, Hector Elizondo, and teen songstress Mandy Moore. It opens in U.S. theaters on August 3.

One of the neatest features of QuickTime 5 Pro is its ability to let multimedia producers create “skins”—customized interface designs. You may have seen media skins used on websites—like in the WGBH netcast of “This Old House: The Charlestown House” (featured above). Or you may have seen them used in enhanced CDs and wondered how you could use them in your own multimedia productions.

David Simpson wrote “QuickTime Shows Some Skin, Lots of It” for about.com explaining the basics of media skin creation, using Apple’s QuickTime media skin tutorial as a guide. It’s a great introduction to media skins, and we bet you’ll want to give it a try after reading how easy it is to do.

New Book on QuickTime 5 Just Peachy
If you want to know all the ins and outs of QuickTime 5.0, we recommend “QuickTime 5.0 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide,” by Judith Stern and Robert Lettieri. This new step-by-step reference guide walks you through QuickTime 5 Pro and all of its components, including in-depth coverage of the new features of QuickTime 5.

Peachpit Press’s Visual QuickStart guides are well known for their concise and simple explanations and are highly recommended for anyone new to a subject—even those without extensive technical backgrounds.

Two Great QuickTime Tools at a Special Price
This July, two of the leading multimedia software developers are offering a special promotional bundle when you buy their award-winning authoring tools. Purchase Totally Hip Software’s Live Stage Professional and Tribeworks’s iShell, and you’ll get more than 40% off the regular list price.

Now’s the time to get a complete QuickTime authoring suite at an outstanding price. But hurry—this offer is only good through July 31, 2001. Like complete details about this special offer?

To benefit the Nkiru Center for Education and Culture, volume.com presents an exclusive webcast of hip-hop recording artist Mos Def and his new group, Jack Johnson. (You'll need to register on this non-Apple site in order to view the webcast.)

Lest We Forget
“I Might Be Wrong,” but you’re almost certain to enjoy Radiohead’s new music video, an Internet exclusive.

“I Might Be Wrong” is just one of the hits from the band’s fifth studio album, Amnesiac. Ever wonder how Radiohead creates its music videos? We have the answer to that question. It’s all about diet and proper nourishment. Honest.

New Music Videos
Introducing two new music videos from the U.K.’s video-c:

The Kings of Convenience feel that failing is the best way to learn, so they’ve written a song about it. Experience “Failure,” the first music video from the band’s new CD, “Quiet is the New Loud.”

“Turn” is the latest single from the British trio Feeder’s popular CD, “Echo Park.” Hear what makes this band one of London’s most popular groups.

Enjoy Your
Southport Weekender
In May, the Southport Weekender festival provided a mecca for dance music buffs in the U.K., with DJs including the mighty Morales, the Magic Sessions (with Louie Vega, Tony Humphries and Tedd Paterson), Goldie, Gilles Peterson, MJ Cole, the Dreem Teem, and Joey Negro.

To watch the video, click the movie size (400x320, 320x240 or 240x100) you’d like to see.

Direct from Paris
Au Cafe de la Danse. See French R&B artist Matt perform four tracks from his last album “R’n’B de Rue.”

Exciting new Power Mac G4 computers, speedier iMac computers, and feature enhancements to Mac OS X—those are just a few of the things Apple CEO Steve Jobs spoke about in his keynote at Macworld New York on July 18. Learn all the details by watching the archived broadcast.

Return to Race Rocks
It’s the best way to explore one of the Northern Hemisphere’s most inaccessible and fragile wildlife habitats. Find out what the buoys and gulls are up to on Race Rocks Islands near Vancouver, BC, where a series of cameras capture the real-time cavortings and cacophony of a wide variety of native sea life in streaming QuickTime.

Right now gulls are nesting and tending to their chicks, so it’s a great time to watch the birdie.