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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 (Antialiasing) and up to 1024x Temporal Supersampling (Motion Blur) per frame.

Download the 7-day trial below, or buy a license now.

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
Command Line Scriptable NEW
Cost

QuartzCrystal 1.3

QuartzCrystal 1.3 sports a completely rewritten rendering engine, designed around Mac OS X 10.5.5 and 10.5.6 CoreImage changes. This makes rendering more reliable (especially with motion blur and antialiasing). It also contains a command-line powered renderer, suitable for scripting and use without a GUI, and allows the GUI to keep running in the event of a render failure. Some UI bugs were also fixed. Unregistered rendering should work again as well.

Additionally, the render context is cleared between each frame, allowing compositions without a Clear Patch to render properly.

Documentation

http://kineme.net/wiki/QuartzCrystal

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-1.3.zip1.23 MB
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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
2011.05.29 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
2008.09.04 QuartzCrystal 1.2 10.4 10.5 10.6 Production
2008.07.29 QuartzCrystal 1.0 10.4 10.5 10.6 Production

Follow the Version link for release notes and supplementary downloads (sample compositions, source code, et cetera).

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