QuickTime Toolkit Volume One: Basic Movie Playback and Media Types (QuickTime Developer Series)

"When QuickTime application developers get stuck, one of the first places they look for help is example code from the QuickTime Engineering team. Finally, these well-crafted examples and clear descriptions are available in book forma must-have for anyone writing applications that import, export, display, or interact with QuickTime movies." Matthew Peterson; University of California, Berkeley; the M.I.N.D. Institute; and author of Interactive QuickTime QuickTime Toolkit Volume One is a programmers introduction to QuickTime, the elegant and potent 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 hands-on guide shows you how to harness the powerful capabilities of QuickTime for your own projects. The articles collected here from the author's highly regarded column in MacTech Magazine are packed with accessible code examples to get you quickly started developing applications that can display and create state-of-the-art digital content. This book begins by showing how to open and display QuickTime movies in a Macintosh or Windows application and progresses step by step to show you how to control movie playback and how to import and transform movies and images. QuickTime Toolkit also shows how to create movies with video data, text, time codes, sprites, and wired (interactive) elements. Part of the official QuickTime Developer Series, publishing the finest books on QuickTime in cooperation with Apple.Tim Monroe is the author of 'QuickTime Toolkit Volume One: Basic Movie Playback and Media Types (QuickTime Developer Series)', published 2004 under ISBN 9780120884018 and ISBN 0120884011.