iTunes Extras

Two 'iTunes Extras' stories April 2013 - July 2014

Apple brings iTunes Extras to Apple TV, HD Extras to Macs today & iOS 8 in fall

Apple-TV-Extras

Apple today released iTunes version 11.3 and with it is making its iTunes Extras feature available for HD movies on Macs. Apple also announced today that the feature is now available for Apple TV with update 6.2 and will arrive on iOS 8 this fall.

While we’ll have to wait for iTunes Extras to arrive on iOS with the release of iOS 8 this fall, the Apple TV OS 6.2 update rolled out late last month to users alongside iOS 7.1.2.

iTunes Extras offers an interactive experience for some video content on iTunes that often includes behind-the-scenes videos, image galleries, commentary from the creators, cast interviews, exclusive clips, short films, and more. Content creators decide whether or not to offer the iTunes Extras feature and create the experience using templates provided by Apple. Apple also notes that “new iTunes Extras will be automatically added to your previously purchased HD movies as they become available- at no additional charge.”

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Apple updates iAd Producer with support for iBooks Author widgets, iTunes LPs, iTunes Extras, more

Apple’s iAd Producer tool for creating HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript ads for its iAd platform gets updated to version 4.0 today and adds a number of notable new features on top of some performance enhancements that Apple outlined in a knowledge base article. The updated app now allows users to create iBooks Author widgets, iTunes LPs, and iTunes Extras. Apple provides more information on the new features, such as creating an iBooks Author Widget for iBooks Author projects on the iAd Producer support page:

You can create an iBooks Author widget for use in your iBooks Author projects. For example, you can create a widget that allows users to stream video from the Internet, draw using their finger, or interact with a timeline.

A full list of what’s new in iAd Producer 4.0 including: folder-based organization support, new HTML, Stack, Drawing, and Panorama objects, in-app quick previews, CSS filter support for objects, and much more below:

New in iAd Producer 4.0

This release contains a number of new features and improvements

Improved Object library interface

Improved Actions library interface

Support for folder-based organization in the asset library

New HTML, Stack, Drawing, and Panorama objects

New actions for adding and removing CSS classes, animating background position, animating image masks, and text slide-in animation

Support for applying CSS filters as well as image and gradient masks to objects.

In-app quick preview

Project-wide search in the Code Editor

Better export performance

Improved menu layout

Improved font support, including support for OpenType fonts

Improved rulers and alignment guides

Enhanced inspectors, with pop-up color pickers, and gradient sliders that now represent opacity

Support for QuickLook previews in iAd Producer project files

Support for iTunes LP, iTunes Extras, and iBook Author widget project types

Other fixes and improvements