Headlines Tips & Tricks Last Updated: Sep 22, 1996 The paper "Speed For Apple Media Tool" gives an overview of tips and tricks to let your AMT title to run faster. During this overview we give you also a list of third party tools that can help you in creating your AMT title. Many major AMT developers co-edit this document, so consider this as the best advice from the experts. AMT on the web Last Updated: Feb 12, 1996 We give you here a complete list of sites that has some information about Apple Media Tool. FAQ Last Updated: Sep 18, 1996 Mark Fleming is keeping a list of the most frequently asked questions about Apple Media Tool. Before you send your problem to the AMKDEV mailing-list you should take a look at his list. Bug List Last Updated: Mar 21, 1997 During AMT 2.0 the product was harmed by some minor problems. The most annoying part was not the problems itself but that there was no list available. As soon as AMT 2.1.1 ships, we will keep a list of bugs and solutions. But, I think this list will be very short, because if my sources are correctly informed AMT 2.1.1 will be the most stable authoring tool on the market.

Contents Latest News    Extra documentation AMT Accelerator 2.5.1    Freeware code and Tools Other Third Party AMT add-ons    Competition What's new   AMT on the web Suggestion List   AMT Tips & Tricks Latest news: June 20, 1999: AMT Accelerator 2.5.1 is uploaded, fixes a problem with QT 4.0. April 6, 1999: iShell, formerly known as TOTO, is ready to release to the outside world. This multimedia authoring tool is build by the same people that created AMT.You can already download a FREE version yourself at www.tribeworks.com. Please visit our iShell webpages for additional information, on these pages you also find information on iPackager the AMT Accelerator for iShell. Click Here for more information. Old archived news. AMT Accelerator 2.5.1  Is speed is what you need then take a look at AMT Accelerator. The load time of your AMT screens will be reduced between 2 to 8 times on the MacOS Platform and 1.5 to 5 times on Windows Platform both measured on a 4x speed CD-ROM. Click here for more information.   Other Third Party AMT add-ons KeyMW: AMTPE with Metrowerks MPW Compilers and CodeWarrior AMT/dtF connection kit for the AMT PE KeyJava: Allows to play Java applets on Macintosh in your AMT PE title. XMeDIA: the Engine for AMT v2.0 from The Carl Group,Inc 22 Extra Effects: FreeWare!!! developed by Gérard Sebbah works only with AMT PE. Extra documentation Developer University has made an online course for Apple Media Tool 2.0: http://devworld.apple.com/dev/du/amt/index.html If you are an AMT user but needs to correct a few things in your AMT sources, then take first a look at this excellent document: http://macinfo.ccs.queensu.ca/Mark/AMT2/UsingAMTSource.html Mark Fleming's his list of Frequently Asked Questions about Apple Media Tool. They are divided in 2 groups: related to MacOS: http://macinfo.ccs.queensu.ca/Mark/AMT2/AMTfaq.html Windows: http://macinfo.ccs.queensu.ca/Mark/AMT2/AMTWinfaq.html The best list of tips and tricks for Apple Media Tool: Speed For Apple Media Tool Gess Shankar his excellent mailing list about AMT has also been archived: http://www.earthchannel.com/binpub/archives/amkdev/ Scott Kuechle from Apple Developer Technical Support has written an excellent technical note about the memory use of AMT: " Not Enough External Memory (3)" New: Scott Kuechle from Apple Developer Technical Support has written a technical note about how you can add custom scroll/control bars in AMT 2.1.1 and AMT 2.0: http://devworld.apple.com/dev/technotes/tn/tn1073.html Complete list of all the technical information published by Apple (mainly old information about version 1.2 of Apple Media Tool). Index New: QuickTime For Windows, resolving Common Installation Issues. http://devworld.apple.com/dev/technotes/tn/tn1074.html Freeware code and Tools On Mark Fleming's ftp site you can find a series of new AMT Engines, AMT sample code, AMT class libraries and Media processing Utilities. ftp://ftp.ccs.queensu.ca/pub/macintosh/amt2.0/ Stefan Fuerst has made some freeware code for the AMT PE. http://www.acg.ch/mediaatelier/amtpe/ Apple has put on his AMT web-site some of the examples you can find on the AMT CD. http://www.macos.apple.com/amt/sw.html QuickTime Sites: The official Apple QuickTime site: http://quicktime.apple.com/ Apple QuickTime Tools: http://quicktime.apple.com/dev/tool.html ftp://ftp.info.apple.com/dts/quicktime/ QuickTime FAQ Site: http://www.quicktimefaq.org/ QuickTime VR Sites: The official Apple QuickTime VR site: http://qtvr.quicktime.apple.com/ QuickTime VR Tools: http://qtvr.quicktime.apple.com/dev/tool.html QuickTime VR Tips (Joel's QTVR Workbook): http://solutions.apple.com/pub/quicktime-vr/jcannon/Workbook.html Sites with Shareware and Freeware Tools: http://www.shareware.com/ info-mac-mirrors.html: http://www.macintouch.com/info-mac-mirrors.html MacUser Software Site: http://www.zdnet.com/macuser/software/ Competition AMT against Director by Dan Crow: AMT or Director Thanks to Ives Agemans for the AMT Accelerator Logo Thanks to Joëlle Benventuo for HTML Tips