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Leopard Reference Library: Graphics & Imaging
QuickTime provides relatively high-level graphics support through a number of technologies. QuickTime can import, export, compress, and decompress most major image and video formats quickly and efficiently. Developers can use QuickTime Virtual Reality (QTVR) to turn photos and computer renderings into interactive 3D worlds. Transport and delivery mechanisms support opening and storing visual media on discs, in memory, and over the Internet, and support sending video to devices other than displays. QuickTime also supports visual rendering to outputs such as DV, Quartz, and OpenGL.

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Exporting Movies for iPod, Apple TV and iPhone (HTML)
TN2188: Discusses the use of the iPod, Apple TV and iPhone QuickTime export components.
Technical Notes 2009-04-30
QTCoreVideo202 (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates how to render a QuickTime Movie using OpenGL PBO and the Core Video pixel buffer pipeline.
Sample Code 2009-04-07
QTCoreVideo301 (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates adding of effects & filters to QuickTime Movies in realtime using GLSL shaders and the Core Video texture pipeline.
Sample Code 2009-04-07
Using QTPixelBufferContextCreate with NewMovieFromProperties (HTML)
QA1443: Discusses using a QuickTime pixel buffer visual context and NewMovieFromProperties to output frames to pixel buffers.
Technical Q&As 2008-08-08
Final Cut Pro - The 'r4fl' Pixel Format (HTML)
TN2201: Describes the 'r4fl' pixel format used by Final Cut Pro to support greater than 8-bit rendering.
Technical Notes 2008-08-06
QTCoreVideo102 (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
An application demonstrating the use of QTKit, CoreVdeo, and OpenGL.
Sample Code 2008-06-06
QTCoreVideo103 (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates how to render a QuickTime Movie using OpenGL texture range and the Core Video pixel buffer pipeline.
Sample Code 2008-06-06
QTCoreVideo201 (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates how to render a QuickTime Movie using OpenGL FBO and the Core Video texture pipeline.
Sample Code 2008-06-06
MyMovieFilter (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
How to play a movie into a layer-backed QTMovieView and apply a Core Image filter while the movie plays.
Sample Code 2008-06-02
WhackedTV (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
A Cocoa version of the venerable HackTV sample code, demonstrating usage of the Sequence Grabber API's
Sample Code 2008-05-09
LiveVideoMixer (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
LiveVideoMixer demonstrates customized video rendering with QuickTime 7 and CoreVideo and OpenGL.
Sample Code 2008-04-24
QTCoreVideo101 (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates (with very little code) how to render a QuickTime Movie using CoreVideo and OpenGL.
Sample Code 2008-04-24
Managing QTCompressionOptions - An overview of the QTCompressionOptionsWindow sample (HTML)
TN2219: Introductory overview of the QTCompressionOptionsWindow sample demonstrating one way to manage QTCompressionOptions objects.
Technical Notes 2008-03-11
StillMotion (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates how to use the QTKit Capture APIs to build a simple application that creates stop motion animations.
Sample Code 2007-11-14
CIVideoDemoGL (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
CIVideoDemoGL demonstrates using Core Image with QuickTime and Core Video
Sample Code 2007-10-03
QuickTime Visual Context - Setting the kQTVisualContextOutputColorSpaceKey Attribute (HTML)
QA1550: Describes how to configure a QuickTime OpenGL Texture Visual Context with the kQTVisualContextOutputColorSpaceKey attribute.
Technical Q&As 2007-09-28
Core Animation QuickTime Layer (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows the use of controls in a Layer over a Core Animation QTMovieLayer
Sample Code 2007-09-26
QuickTime Texture Visual Context - kQTVisualContextNotAllowedErr with non-accelerated graphics cards (HTML)
QA1542: Discusses how to create a display mask and avoid a kQTVisualContextNotAllowedErr when using a non-accelerated graphics card.
Technical Q&As 2007-09-18
Core Video - Available Pixel Formats (HTML)
QA1501: Discusses how to determine all the pixel format types and format descriptions known to Core Video.
Technical Q&As 2007-01-23
Compression Sequence APIs - codecErr returned when compressing with H.264 (HTML)
QA1470: Describes why ICM Compression Sequence APIs cannot be used to encode to H.264
Technical Q&As 2006-11-15
LiveVideoMixer3 (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
LiveVideoMixer3 is extended to support Video In via QTKit
Sample Code 2006-08-01
LiveVideoMixer2 (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
An updated LiveVideoMixer with DV out over FireWire
Sample Code 2006-05-05
QTCarbonCoreImage101 (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates how to render QuickTime Movies using Core Image filters and the new video pipeline.
Sample Code 2006-02-14
Decompression Sessions - Setting codec accuracy and field mode (HTML)
QA1460: Describes how to set codec accuracy and field mode options when creating a decompression sessions.
Technical Q&As 2006-01-12
QuickTime Compression and Decompression Guide (HTML) (PDF)
Describes the QuickTime data compression and decompression technologies.
Guides 2006-01-10
Compression Sessions - Configuring codec quality settings (HTML)
QA1444: Discusses how to set encoding quality for a Compression Sequence
Technical Q&As 2005-10-17
QTQuartzPlayer (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
QTQuartzPlayer demonstrates how to render QuickTime Movies and live video with OpenGL and CoreVideo.
Sample Code 2005-10-04
Implementing a CVFillExtendedPixelsCallBack (HTML)
QA1440: Discusses how you implement a Core Video custom extended pixel fill callback function.
Technical Q&As 2005-09-06
Registering custom pixel formats with QuickTime and Core Video (HTML)
QA1401: Discusses how to register custom pixel formats with QuickTime & Core Video with QuickTime 7.
Technical Q&As 2005-09-06
QuickTime Movie Playback Programming Guide (HTML) (PDF)
Describes how to open and play QuickTime movies using the Carbon and QuickTime API.
Guides 2005-08-11
QuickTime Overview (HTML) (PDF)
Introduces the main concepts and services of QuickTime.
Guides 2005-08-11
QTCoreImage101 (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates how to render a QuickTime Movie using Core Image filters and the new video pipeline.
Sample Code 2005-07-19
Quartz Composer QCTV (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to build a fake TV system using Quartz Composer as the foundation motion graphics.
Sample Code 2005-07-06
Efficiently using Quartz Composer compositions with QuickTime (HTML)
TN2145: Describes how to best use Quartz Composer compositions in a QuickTime environment.
Technical Notes 2005-07-05
Quartz Composer Live DV (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to export a Quartz Composer composition as a real-time DV stream on the FireWire port.
Sample Code 2005-06-01
Quartz Composer Matrix (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to use Quartz Composer to display a QuickTime movie as a series of frames in a 3D world.
Sample Code 2005-06-01
Graphics Exporters - Creating 16-bit-per-channel image files (HTML)
QA1354: Discusses how to use QuickTime Graphics Exporters to create 16-bit-per-channel image files.
Technical Q&As 2004-06-03
qtshell (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Simple QuickTime and QuickTime VR viewer framework.
Sample Code 2003-10-27
OpenGLCompositorLab (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates using OpenGL to composite multiple sources in hardware. Requires NVIDIA GeForce 4 Ti hardware.
Sample Code 2003-04-21
Is ColorSync thread safe? (HTML) (日本語 HTML)
QA1261: Discusses ColorSync thread-safety issues.
Technical Q&As 2003-04-17
QTtoCG (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to create a CGImageRef with the proper ColorSync profile from a QuickTime image on disk.
Sample Code 2003-01-14
Importing animated GIFs (HTML) (日本語 HTML)
TN2018: Describes how to tell if a GIF file or dataref contains more than one frame.
Technical Notes 2001-04-17
Creating Sub GWorlds using QTNewGWorldFromPtr (HTML)
QA1014: Using QTNewGWorldFromPtr to create sub GWorlds which reference the pixel data of other GWorlds.
Technical Q&As 2001-03-20
Extracting DV Fields using QTNewGWorldFromPtr (HTML)
QA1017: Describes using QTNewGWorldFromPtr to access individual fields contained within a frame of DV source.
Technical Q&As 2001-03-20
LockPixels and DisposeGWorld with QTNewGWorldFromPtr (HTML)
QA1007: Clarifies some issues surrounding pointer ownership when creating GWorlds with QTNewGWorldFromPtr
Technical Q&As 2001-02-26