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QuickTime Toolkit Volume Two
By: Tim MonroeImprint: Morgan Kaufmann
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"Buried inside QuickTime are a host of powerful tools for creating, delivering, and playing digital media. The official QuickTime documentation explains 'what' each API function does. But knowing what each function does isn't enough to allow a developer to take full advantage of QuickTime. QuickTime Toolkit fills in the gap—providing plenty of practical examples of 'how' to use QuickTime to perform all kinds of useful tasks. More importantly, [this book] goes beyond 'how' and into 'why' —providing readers with a deeper understanding of QuickTime and how to benefit from using it in their own products." —Peter Hoddie, cofounder of Kinoma and former QuickTime architect
QuickTime Toolkit, Volume Two continues the step-by-step investigation of programming QuickTime, the elegant and powerful media engine used by many of Apple's industry-leading services and products (such as the iTunes music store, iMovie, and Final Cut Pro) and also used by a large number of third-party applications. This second collection of articles from the author's highly regarded column in MacTech Magazine builds upon the discussion of playback techniques and media types presented in the first volume to cover advanced types of QuickTime media data, including video effects, Flash tracks, and skins. It shows how to capture audio and video data, broadcast that data to remote computers, play movies full screen, and load movies asynchronously. QuickTime Toolkit Volume Two also shows how to integrate Carbon events into your Macintosh application and how to work with Macintosh resources in your Windows application.
Part of the official QuickTime Developer Series, publishing the finest books on QuickTime in cooperation with Apple.
*Includes a CD-ROM with numerous code examples in C to help you get started with your own applications
*Written by one of Apple's premier media engineers skilled in revealing QuickTime's sophisticated technology to programmers
*Offers many undocumented insider tips for making applications that work well in both Mac OS and Windows
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| Title of Computers eBook: QuickTime Toolkit Volume Two | |
| Release Date: 06-30-2004 | |
| Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann |
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QuickTime Toolkit Volume Two
Chapter One
F/X Using Video Effects in Movies
* Introduction
The QuickTime video effects architecture, introduced in QuickTime 3, is an extensible system for applying video effects to images or video tracks. An effect applied to one image or track is called a filter, and an effect applied to two images or tracks is called a transition. QuickTime includes an implementation of the 133 standard transitions defined by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), as well as some additional effects developed by the QuickTime team. The SMPTE effects include various forms of wipe effects, iris effects, radial effects, and matrix effects. Of all of these, my personal favorite is a wipe effect called the horizontal barn zigzag, shown in Figure 1.1.
The additional QuickTime effects include transitions like a simple explode (where the first image is exploded outward to reveal the second image) and a push (where the first image is pushed aside by the second image). Figures 1.2 and 1.3 show these effects applied to two penguin images. QuickTime also includes a very nice cross-fade or dissolve transition (which produces a smooth alpha blending from the first image to the second) and a nifty film noise filter that makes a video track look like old, faded, dusty, and scratched film. Figure 1.4 shows a frame of a movie with the film noise effect.
There are several video effects that operate on no source images or video tracks at all, called effects generators. For instance, we can use the fire effect to generate a fairly
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