• QuickTime Basics

• Movies and Media Data Structures

• Movies––A Few Good Concepts

• Time Management

• The QuickTime Architecture

• The Movie Toolbox

• The Image Compression Manager

• QuickTime Components

• The Component Manager

• Atoms

• QuickTime Player

• Sprites and Sprite Animation

• Creating Desktop Sprites

• Wired Movies

• Adding Actions

• Wired Actions

• User Events

• Using Flash With QuickTime

• QuickTime Media Skins

• QuickTime VR

• The QuickTime VR Media Type

• Creating QTVR Movies Programmatically

• QTVR Panoramas

• Nodes and Multinode Panoramas

• QTVR Object Movies

• Object and Panoramic Nodes

• Object Nodes

• Panorama Nodes

• Hot Spots

• Viewing Limits and Constraints

• QTVR Authoring Studio

• QTVR Tools

• Creating QTVR Panoramas

• Basic Equipment

• Digital Cameras

• Tripods and Pano Heads

• Nodal Point Adjustment

• Planning

• Shooting

• Image Preparation

• Stitching Images

• Making Panoramas with 3D Software

• Touch Up

• Tiling, Compressing, and Optimizing

• Tiling

• Compression

• Optimization

• Setting the Preview

• Hot Spots and Multinode Panoramas

• Creating QTVR Object Movies

• Equipment Needed

• Shooting Tips

• Generating 3D Imagery

• Image Preparation

• Making the Object Movie

• Compositing QTVR With Other Media

• Compositing with VR Panoramas

• Adding a Picture Frame to a VR Panorama

• Adding a Sound Track to a VR Panorama

• Adding a Wired Sprite Controller to a VR Panorama

• Compositing with Object Movies

• How You Can Add Still Images to an Object Movie

• Adding Sound to an Object Movie

• Adding Motion Video to an Object Movie

• Embedding a QTVR Movie in a Web Page

• Size Matters

• Check Your References

• Intruder Alert

• Node Logic

• Displaying QuickTime VR Movies

• Defining the QTVR Movie Controller

• User Controls For Easy Navigation

• Loading the Movie Controller Component

• Movie Controller Actions

• Using the QuickTime VR Movie Controller

• Hiding and Showing the Control Bar

• Showing and Hiding Control Bar Buttons

• Sending Actions to the QuickTime VR Movie Controller

• QuickTime VR Authoring Components

• The QTVR Flattener

• Presenting Users with the QTVR Flattener Dialog Box

• Communicating Directly with the Component

• Sample Atom Container for the QTVR Flattener

• The QTVR Multinode Splitter

• Advantages of a Multinode Movie

• Using the QTVR Splitter

• Displaying Movies in Web Pages

• QuickTime VR Object Movie Compressor

• QuickTime VR Manager

• Overview of the QuickTime VR Manager

• QuickTime VR Movie Instances

• Buffers

• Memory Management

• Using the QuickTime VR Manager

• Determining If The QuickTime VR Manager Is Available

• Initializing the QuickTime VR Manager

• Creating QuickTime VR Movie Instances

• Manipulating Viewing Angles and Zooming

• Intercepting QuickTime VR Manager Routines

• Entering and Leaving Nodes

• Drawing in the Prescreen Buffer

• Elements of a QuickTime VR Movie

• Single-Node Panoramic Movies

• Single-Node Object Movies

• Multinode Movies

• QTVR Track

• QuickTime VR Sample Description Structure

• Panorama Tracks

• Panorama Sample Atom Structure

• Panorama Image Track

• Cylindrical Panoramas

• Cubic Panoramas

• Image Tracks in Cubic Nodes

• Panorama Tracks in Cubic Nodes

• Nonstandard Cubes

• Quaternions

• Examples for Common Cases

• Hot Spot Image Tracks

• Low-Resolution Image Tracks

• Track Reference Entry Structure

• Object Tracks

• Object Sample Atom Structure

• Track References for Object Tracks

• Overview

• MakeCubic Utility Application

• Using the VRMakePano.c Library

• Cubic Panorama File Format

• Inside VRMakePano.c

• Specifying the Faces of a Cube

• Converting a Tile Movie To a Cylindrical QuickTime VR Movie

• Converting Movies to Cubic Panorama Movies

• Converting Cubic Picture files to Cubic Panorama Movies

• Converting GWorlds to Cubic Panorama Movies

• Overview of Atom Containers

• The String Atom and the String Encoding Atom

• VR World Atom Container

• VR World Header Atom Structure

• Imaging Parent Atom

• Panorama-Imaging Atom

• Node Parent Atom

• Node Location Atom Structure

• Custom Cursor Atoms

• Node Information Atom Container

• Node Header Atom Structure

• Hot Spot Parent Atom

• Hot Spot Information Atom

• Specific Information Atoms

• Link Hot Spot Atom

• Link Hot Spot Valid Flags

• URL Hot Spot Atom

• Getting the Name of a Node

• Adding Custom Atoms in a QuickTime VR Movie

• Required Atoms for Wired Actions

• Adding Wired Actions to a QuickTime VR Movie

• Programming Tasks

• Step #1––Getting the Movie File and Adding Wired Actions

• Step #2––Constructing Some Atom Containers

• Step #3––Setting the Pan Angle

• Step #4––Setting the Pan Angle to 180.0 Degrees

• Step #5––Setting Actions to be Frame-Loaded

• Step #6––Setting Hot Spot Actions

• Step #7––Adding a Media Property Atom

• Step #8––Adding Wired Actions

• Step #9––Opening the Movie and Getting the Track

• Step #10––Getting the First Media Sample

• Step #11––Converting to Big-Endian Format

• QuickTime Programming Books in PDF

• The QuickTime Developer Series

• Some Useful QuickTime Websites

• What Is Panoramic Resolution?

• Defining Angular Pixel Density

• Panoramic Resolution in Pixels Per Degree

• Issues Involving Pixels and Focal Length

• Computing Focal Length in Pixels