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image structureEmbedding Movies in Quartz Composer : Image StructuresIt is possible to embed a movie in Quartz Composer, by following these steps:
...and you're done! One should have a qtz that is playing back an embedded movie, with ability to define the rate of playback. For an example of this, reference the attached file. Notes: I've tested this with multi-page pdf's and gif images, though I'm guessing that multi-page tiff would likely work as well. For creating your own from scratch, it's easy to convert movies to Image Sequences using Quicktime's Export to Image Sequence ability. From that point one, can use a utility program to create a gif, or use Preview to convert to pdf. I would think it would be possible to merge a pdf document by using Preview, and according to some unofficial documentation I've read, but when I drop multiple pdf's onto the sidebar in Preview, it doesn't give me a "bound"/merged document. I've used an older free utility called "pdfsam", which will successfully create a merged pdf document with correct ordering. For the sake of size (and cost of quality), one may want to reopen the merged pdf in Preview and Save using the "Reduce File Size" Quartz Filter option. The creation of Image Sequence from movie, to merged pdf or gif file seems like something that should be scriptable, to avoid having to use various applications to prep the Image document, but I haven't investigated the automation of that process yet.
Quad structure with images.When I put an image structure into the new quad structure patch in GLTools I can get them to play to Distinct Quads option but not Quad Strip. The image at index=0 is repeated for each quad. Is this intended or perhaps a bug. To make sure it wasn't my comp, I used the GLTools quad structure demo patch with my own image structure of 3 images. I guess I can double-up the quad co-ordinates to make the strip from whole quads as a work around. More code writing... blah Want to end up with this kind of thing but see what it's like with images transformed not just masked. (Transforming in motion after that...)
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