Introduction to Quartz Composer User Guide
Explains how to use the Quartz Composer development tool to create motion graphics compositions.
Organization of This Document
This document is organized as follows:
Quartz Composer Basic Concepts defines the terms used in Quartz Composer and describes the evaluation model and the coordinate system.
The Quartz Composer User Interface gives an overview of the editor, the viewer, the patch creator, and the other user interface elements in the tool supplied in OS X v10.5.
Basic and Advanced Tasks, Tips, and Tricks describes the fundamental operations needed to create a composition, gives timesaving tips, and shows how to use some of the more advanced features.
Tutorial: Creating a Composition provides step-by-step instructions for creating a composition and using it as a screen saver and a QuickTime movie.
Glossary defines the new terms used in the document.
See Also
Sample Quartz compositions are available in /Developer/Examples/Quartz Composer .
The Quartz Composer developer mailing list ( quartzcomposer-dev ) is an excellent place to discuss issues or topics with other Quartz Composer developers.
Quartz Composer Programming Guide describes how to use the Quartz Composer framework to integrate compositions into an application.
Quartz Composer Custom Patch Programming Guide provides instructions on creating your own patches that you can then use in the Quartz Composer development tool.
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