Last time we left off just as things were starting to get interesting, as we had added faux scanlines, a hotspot, and a nice bulge effect to our fan-tabulous screenshot of the Library of Congress site. The whole idea, of course, is to inject a little va-va-voom into the traditionally boring subject of screenshots in a video, so let's continue on and finish prettying this sucker up.

In retrospect, I really have to thank both Microsoft and Netscape for their little pissing contest known as the "browser wars." Because of their antics, I may have never gotten fed up with Web design as a primary vocation and, consequently, might never have embraced motion graphics, compositing, 3D animation, and the various other disciplines I'm fortunate enough to make a living doing today. And while I never abandoned Web design entirely, it's been a pretty small part of my professional existence for almost six years now. So when I recently started to think about redesigning my own Web site (having made the decision to not do a Flash-only site this time), my desire to avoid the HTML hell of the past led me to the brave new (to me, anyway) world of Web standards.

Who knew QuickTime could do all this? It's not a rhetorical question, because Apple hasn't exactly been real busy spreading the word about all the cool stuff lurking in QuickTime that LiveStage Professional gives you unfettered access to. Perhaps if this product was made by Apple itself and branded "QuickTime Studio Pro," QuickTime might be widely known by now as much, much more than a video format. Alas, we have to rely on Totally Hip for assistance in tapping into the large helping of interactive goodness that's been a largely hidden part of QuickTime for many moons now.