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Introduction to QuickTime Movie Creation Guide

Contents:

Organization of This Document
See Also

This book describes some of the different ways your application can create a new QuickTime movie.

You need to read this book if you are going to work with QuickTime movies.

Organization of This Document

This book consists of the following chapters:

• Creating Movies shows you how to create a new movie.

• Sequence Grabber Components provides an overview of sequence grabber components, channel components, video digitizer components, and panel components (used to provide dialogs).

• Sequence Grabber Component Functions describes the functions that are provided by sequence grabber components.

• Sequence Grabber Panel Components describes what sequence grabber panel components are, and how they are used.

• Sequence Grabber Channel Components describes how to build sequence grabber channel components, also known simply as channel components.

• Using Sequence Grabber Channel Components gives an overview of the services your channel component needs to provide.

• Text Channel Components describes a type of sequence grabber channel component that captures text for use in QuickTime movies.

• About Video Digitizer Components gives you general information about video digitizers in QuickTime.

• Creating Video Digitizer Components tells you what support is required from a custom video digitizer component.

• Video Digitizer Component API describes the application programming interface for video digitizer components.

See Also

For information about creating a video digitizer component, see QuickTime Component Creation Guide.

The following other Apple books cover related aspects of QuickTime programming:

• QuickTime Overview gives you the starting information you need to do QuickTime programming.

• QuickTime Movie Basics introduces you to some of the basic concepts you need to understand when working with QuickTime movies.

• QuickTime Guide for Windows provides information specific to programming for QuickTime on the Windows platform.

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