First off, let me apologize for what I now consider to be the lame subtitle I thought up for this installment of our interactive QuickTime authoring series. Please, pick whichever excuse you find most appropriate:

1. I was tired.
2. I was drunk.
3. I needed the money.

Now that everything's all better between us, we're going to turn our attention this time to a program that doesn't just enlist QuickTime as part of a larger interactive authoring solution, it makes QuickTime itself the entire interactive authoring solution, exporting fully interactive .mov files, ready for playback in the QuickTime player on Macs or Windows. The guilty party? Totally Hip's LiveStage Professional 4. Read More...

Welcome to Part 2 of our Interactive QuickTime Authoring series (as I now belatedly realize the title already told you). From now until we just don't feel like doing it anymore, we're going to spotlight various programs from various vendors that use QuickTime in some way or other to help developers author their interactive projects. With that as the stated goal, we're not going to get as down and dirty as we might in an actual product review; indeed, the very fact that we're including programs in this veritable cattle call means that they inherently have something to offer in this area. So, as promised in our introduction piece to this series, we're going to summarize for you what each one does, how each uses QuickTime, and where to go for more information. The idea is to pass along information for you, the reader, to be able to perform the ultimate evaluation as to whether any would be useful in your particular workflow. First up on the list is TribeWorks' iShell.