David Burket has redesigned the page(s) that held his instructions for how
to add sound to QTVR panoramas, and has added to and improved those instructionas
as well. The site is now the QTVR
Auditorium and will be a place to find all sorts of information on adding sound
to QTVR files.
For a fun example of a QuickTime VR object movie, check out the GyroVR
Mister B page.
VideoScript 1.1.1 is now available.A trial version and more info about this tool
that can be used to write scripts for processing video, can be found at the
VideoScript home page.
A September 10
Media Metrix report says that QuickTime is the 31st most popular software
title used on PCs.(And a September
10th Webintosh piece provides a little more info on the Media Metrix report.)
UC Santa Cruz Extension is offering a weekend seminar on QuickTime on November
21 and 22, taught by Paul Stout, who's well-known for creating Apple's QuickTime
VR course. Read the course
description for "Making the Most of QuickTime" if you want more info.
James W. Walker has released version 1.2.1 of WormScanner, a program for looking
for the AutoStart virus (the one that exploits the QuickTime AutoPlay feature
on the Mac.) Get more info and the program at the WormScanner
page.
We'd like thank our web boy, bruce linde, for posting our page weekly.
MacInTouch points to a very interesting
Seattle
Times article titled "'Knifing the baby': High-tech cooperation or collusion?".
It's yet another story about Microsoft's strongarm tactics, but in this case
it concerns QuickTime in particular.
A few more details about what's new in QT 3.0.2 can be found in a 9/15
message from Apple's Deeje Cooley on the QuickTime-dev list. (In essence, it's
not worth downloading 3.0.2 unless you're a developer.)
The Squamish Media Group has released soundsaVR, a tool for adding directional sound to QuickTime VR movies. You read more about it and download a demo version on the soundsaVR page. Dave Burket of Consolidated Systems has a review of soundsaVR.
Bill Meikle has created a shareware tool called "Bill's WiredHack tool",
for creating wired sprites. You can check it out at Bill's
Test Wired Sprite tool page. (Warning: this tool is in early alpha stages of
development. Use at your own risk.)
eMediaweekly's Creative Connections
has a bunch of links to QuickTime-related sites (including this one!) this
week. (This info at this link will change this week. Next week they'll probably move
it to http://www.emediaweekly.com//creativeconnections.html)
There's more info now at the AdessoSoft website
than there was last week when we mentioned that this company had announced a new
product for editing QTVR panoramas in Photoshop.Of particular interest is
the AdessoSoft When page, which
lists upcoming presentations about the product.
The MyVidCap and MyVidEdit
page has version 2.4 of these shareware apps for capturing and editing video
on the Mac.
Some more updates which have become available over this past month:
The DevelopWare QTVRXtra (for using QTVR movies in Director) v1.1 is available at the DevelopWare site.
At the Panorama Tools page, there's a Windows version of the beta (1.2) of Panorama Tools, which adjusts and aligns images, so they can be used to create QTVR panos.
ConVRter Pro (for converting between QTVR version 1.0 and 2.0) has been updated to version 1.3d23, available at the VRtools ConVRter Pro page.
At their QuickTime Tools and Utilities page, Apple now has Windows versions of their very useful utilities for Web-based QT movies, MakeRefMovie and Plug-In Helper.
A few weeks ago Apple released QuickTime version 3.0.2; this is now the
version that is downloaded from the QuickTime
download page. As usual, there is little posted information on what is new or
fixed with this release. You can gleam a little by checking the Tech
Info Library note, "QuickTime 3.0.2: What's New"
The MacNN Reality page has an interesting story
on why CNN has dropped its support for QuickTime, titled "Microsoft
Bribes CNN; MS Media Player In, QuickTime Out".
MacCentral started a 4-part series about the future of QuickTime in August.
Here's the last two installments: DVD
part of QuickTime's big picture and Chromeffects
and QuickTime: competitors or not?
There have been various QuickTime-related software updates (most listed at VersionTracker):
- VideoScript 1.1 is available at the VideoScript home page.
- ConVRter Pro 1.3d23 is available at the VRTools ConVRter Pro page.
- Russell Clarke has an update to version 3.0.1 of his Play it Cool QuickTime movie player at the Play It Cool page.
- AXlogic has an upgrade to its mTropolis AX QuickTime Kit to version 1.1. (Free if you purchased version 1.0, $269 otherwise) See the AX Logic QuickTime 3 page.
- The MyVidCap and MyVidEdit page has version 2.3.1 of both these shareware apps.
- Connectix has QuickCam updates that will even work for the iMac! Check out the QuickCam updates for Mac OS page.
- Radius MotoDV software has been updated to 1.1.3. Get the update at the Radius Software Library page.
HEURIS has a $99 MPEG-1 exporter component for use with QuickTime and MoviePlayer
Pro. You'll want to check out the MPEG
Export Engine page, where you'll also find the following interesting note: "Users
of Terran Interactive's Media Cleaner Pro should note that the HEURIS MPEG Export
Engine will be bundled with version 3.1 of Media Cleaner Pro. Version 3.1 of
Media Cleaner Pro is due out by the end of September. Just hold your horses!"
There's a new technote
on QuickTime and QuickTime Plug-in for Windows 3.1 in Apple's Technical Information
Library (TIL).
Looks like a new type of QTVR tool is about to come out. AdessoSoft will be introducing
PanoTouch, a "tool for adding content to, editing, and retouching QuickTime
VR panoramas" at the BAQTVRA meeting this week in Cupertino. For more info,
check AdessoSoft's home page.
Ken Turkowski added a new QTVR calculator for determining the number of photos
to achieve a desired overlap to his QuickTime
VR Authoring Tricks page.
Rich Young has a new page, "an
After Effects Portal", with lots of info on After Effects.
Charles Wiltgen has postedto the QuickTime-Announce list "The
QuickTime Universal Studio/Win List (v0.1)" it's his first attempts to list
Windows hardware and software that uses QuickTime.
The QuickTime Gazette
has started the QuickTime Club
at Yahoo; this will be "an online gathering place for QuickTime developers
to discuss and share ideas."
Lari Software has a showcase
page for QuickTime 3 movies created with Electrifier Pro, the soon-to-be-released
and very cool tool for creating wired sprite movies.
We're back from a much needed rest. All of you that have e-mailed us: we will try to answer your mail within the week.