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- README CreateMovie
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- 1. ABOUT CREATEMOVIE
- CreateMovie is a sample application that demonstrates how
- to use the QuickTime APIs to create a very simple QuickTime
- movie with both a video track and a sound track.
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- 2. SPECIFICS
- CreateMovie is based largely on the sample code included
- in Inside Macintosh:QuickTime, starting with pg. 2-45.
- The user is first asked to specify a location on disk to
- create the new movie. A new movie is then created using
- CreateMovieFile function. Next, video & sound tracks are
- added with NewMovieTrack. Media for the sound & video tracks
- are added with the NewTrackMedia, BeginMediaEdits,
- EndMediaEdits sequence of calls. The video track media is
- created by drawing a string and color background into an
- offscreen GWorld. The sound track media is copied from a
- standard macintosh 'snd ' resource included in the
- application file. Because the code relies on the presence
- of a 'snd ' resource in the application file, under
- Windows 95/NT we must use the QuickTime 3.0 RezWack
- utility to embed the 'snd ' resource into the application
- file .
-
- The code contains rather limited error checking. It's up
- to you to add the appropriate error-handling routines.
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- 3. BUILDING CREATEMOVIE
- Macintosh - Included is a Metrowerks project file. The
- application will run on any system with QuickTime 2.5 or
- better installed.
-
- Windows 95/98/NT - Included is a Microsoft Visual C++ 4.2
- makefile. The application will run on any system with
- QuickTime 3.0 or better installed. Note - once the program
- is built using the Microsoft Visual C++ 4.2 build environment,
- we execute a script to embed the 'snd ' resource into the
- application executable file (xxx.exe) using the QuickTime
- 3.0 RezWack utility.
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- 4. USING CREATEMOVIE
- Launch the application, and at the prompt, specify a location
- to create the new movie file. A new movie file is created,
- and the application quits. Open the movie with any Quicktime
- movie-savvy application such as MoviePlayer.
-
- Enjoy,
- QuickTime Team