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QuartzCrystal is an application for rendering Quartz Compositions to QuickTime Movies and Image Sequences.

It supports 3rd Party plugins (Both Official and Unofficial API), as well as unsafe patches. It also supports up to 64x Spatial Supersampling[1] (Antialiasing) and up to 1024x Temporal Supersampling[2] (Motion Blur) per frame.

Quartz ComposerQuickTime ProQuartzCrystal
Renders All Built-in QC Patches
Renders All QC Plugins
Spatial Supersampling[1] (Antialiasing)
Temporal Supersampling[2] (Motion Blur) NEW
Portable Movies
Cost

QuartzCrystal 1.2

QuartzCrystal 1.2 adds the following features:

  • Temporal Supersampling (Motion Blur)
  • Output to JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and OpenEXR Image Sequences
  • French, Italian, German, and Japanese localizations

It also includes a few minor user interface improvements and bug fixes.

Users who purchased QuartzCrystal 1.0 are entitled to a free upgrade to version 1.2. Just download the new version.

Download

Attached below is the free trial version of QuartzCrystal, which is full-featured, but defaces the rendered output movies. Purchasing a license removes this limitation.

QuartzCrystal is for Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard) only.

Footnote [1]: QuartzCrystal performs Spatial Supersampling. This is not the same thing as OpenGL's "Full-Scene Anti-Aliasing" (FSAA) --- it's better. When you enable Spatial Supersampling, QuartzCrystal renders your composition at the specified multiple of your target size, and then applies a high-quality scaling filter to reduce the rendered image to the intended size. All parts of your composition get the same supersampling treatment --- not just lines and poly edges (or whatever your video card supports) as is the case with OpenGL FSAA.

Footnote [2]: QuartzCrystal performs Temporal Supersampling. When you enable this feature, QuartzCrystal renders your composition at the specified number of time-slices for each frame, and blends these slices together --- resulting in smooth motion.

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QuartzCrystal-1.2.zip864.94 KB

Installation Instructions

Double-click the .zip file to uncompress the application. Place the application in your /Applications/ folder. Double-click the application.

QuartzCrystal Releases

Datesort icon Version Download
2011.05.30 QuartzCrystal 2.0 Download Application 10.4 10.5 10.6 10.7 Production
2009.05.12 QuartzCrystal 1.4 10.4 10.5 10.6 Production
2008.12.22 QuartzCrystal 1.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 Production
2008.09.24 QuartzCrystal 1.2.1 10.4 10.5 10.6 Production
2008.09.05 QuartzCrystal 1.2 10.4 10.5 10.6 Production
2008.07.30 QuartzCrystal 1.0 10.4 10.5 10.6 Production