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.
Copyright © 2004, 2007 Apple Inc. All Rights Reserved. Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Updated: 2007-07-17