Introduction

In 1993 I wrote a book titled How To Digitize Video. My employer, The San Francisco Canyon Company, had developed QuickTime for Windows for Apple Computer and was working with Intel on some projects involving an early version of Microsoft’s Video for Windows. Back then, desktop video was new and mysterious—even for most professional computer programmers. This was before streaming media and just at the start of the first great CD-ROM era. Multimedia shops used top-of-the-line 486 PCs and Mac Quadra 800s for production. Most users made do with even lesser machines. ...

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