Introduction to QuickTime Import and Export Guide

Organization of This Document

This document is divided into seven chapters:

About Graphics Importer and Exporter Components describes what QuickTime graphic importer and exporter components do and shows how to use them from within an application.

Graphics Importer Components tells you how applications can use graphics importer components.

Graphics Exporter Components describes the general features of graphics exporter components.

Graphics Exporter Component Functions By Task describes the graphics exporter functions grouped by task and category.

Movie Data Exchange Components describes what movie data exchange components are and shows how they work.

Creating a Movie Data Exchange Component describes how to create a movie data exchange component. Sample import and export components are provided as a programming aid.

Using Movie Data Exchange Components describes how to use movie exchange components from within your application.

See Also

Sample code is available at:

http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/ImproveYourImage/index.html

The sample code demonstrates the usage of QuickTime graphics importers and exporters, and includes twelve separate examples, each of which can be chosen from the Examples menu. These show how to use graphics importers to

Simply draw a still image.

Import, draw, scale and rotate a still image.

Demonstrate compositing with alpha graphics modes and images containing alpha channels.

Retrieve metadata from image files.

Display multiple layers stored in a Photoshop file.

Import an image from a URL data reference.

Add a filter to an imported image, draw it with the filter, and export a new image with the filter applied.

The following 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 Movie Creation Guide describes some of the different ways your application can create a new QuickTime movie.

QuickTime Media Types and Media Handlers Guide introduces the idea of QuickTime media handler components and provides details of the video, sound, text, timecode, and tween media handlers.

QuickTime Compression and Decompression Guide introduces you to the QuickTime Image Compression Manager and its associated components, which provide image-compression and image-decompression services to applications and to other QuickTime components.

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