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Important: This document contains legacy content. Apple recommends that developers explore AV Foundation and Core Video for new development in this technology area. See AV Foundation Framework Reference for Mac and Core Video Programming Guide for more information.
Introduction to QuickTime Movie Creation Guide
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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