Good to see people are interested in using QC. It seems that indvidual animations aren't really the way you are *supposed* to use it, but it works really wel. A lot of tutorials are geared towards doing things like realtime RSS feed renderings etc.
This tutorial gives a nice overview (I'd read it first): http://www.handpickedsoftware.com/free-hidden-tiger-app-quartz-composer and then you can go throught the rotating cube example from the apple developer site: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/GraphicsImaging/Conceptual/QuartzComposer/qc_creating_qcp/chapter_3_section_1.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40001357-CH203-TPXREF101 Take a look at the simpler compositions I have, the main concepts that you should pick up are the idea of "macro patches", timebase etc.; then take a look at some of the simpler examples I have...(remember to open the qtz files in QC, so you can see the "source code"). Just try getting a a simple picture up first, or maybe a quicktime movie with some text fading in over it...it's better to try creating quartz compositions based on what you want, rather than trying to learn from sombody else (visual code is somehow harder to really understand than traditional line based code). Good luck and feel free to email if you need help. -----Original Message----- From: CCP4 bulletin board on behalf of William Scott Sent: Fri 5/25/2007 9:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Quartz Composer (was [ccp4bb] Movie for Powerpoint in windows) That's cool. It runs in the browser, and you can stick it right into a Keynote Slide and it runs in that too. BTW there is something wrong with crick1953.qtz. It says webkit finds it to be unsafe. So how do morons like me learn to do this? Maneesh Yadav wrote: > While we are on the subject of movies and presentations, you may not know > about > a nifty little app on your mac called Quartz Composer. > > Basically you get a slick visual programming language for creating real > time graphics manipulations (think about real time openGL, but laying out > data flow visually instead of code); it also happens to be very well > integrated into quicktime and the apple development environment. > > The nice thing is that you can play back quicktime movies (pan and zoom > smoothly in real time) and overlay crisp text, that looks great on full > screen projection. It's a little more work than doing stuff > keynote/powerpoint, but pretty quick (and quite fun) once you get used to > it. I think a lot of information can be conveyed more efficiently with > animation (and you can use nice high resolution images and crossfade in > real time etc.). > > I've posted some examples here (you will need a mac, OS X 10.4): > > http://www.scripps.edu/~yadavm/qtz/ > > (I can't post some of the really good quicktime examples since the movies > are 100MB, but I put one in there as a zip archive). > > I took great pleasure in starting my defense from iTunes. > >
