Flash Video

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Flash Video FAQ

Media Skin

The last one I want to show is Media Skin for QuickTime. We can personalize QuickTime interface by creating the Media Skin. If we combine the Skin Track with Flash and Stream Video, it would be one of the coolest ways to show your video to the world.

P.S. It’s too bad that BMW Films has pull down the excellent online example.

[ Media Skin ]

Example:
Media Skin from Apple
BMW Films (no longer available)

Software:
Tattoo

Tutorials:
Tutorial - 1
Tutorial - 2

SubTitle

QuickTime contains many “Track” ideas itself. The Text track is one of the useful tracks. I’ll show an easy way to make a subtitle for a movie.

After attach the Text Track, we can do search with our movies. The same idea can be apply to build a HREF Track and Chapter Track.

[ Subtitle ]

Reference:
Text Descriptors

Tutorial:
Text Tracks

Software:
Textation - QuickTime Text Track Editor for Mac OS X

Motion VR

Motion VR, another world is built the panorama VR with video clips. It’s a very interesting way to look the world. For the hardware part, basically you can make it by stitch a bunch of cheap web cams.

I provide two ways to rich the goal. One is home brew way, show in “Tutorials” links, another way is spend money to buy the special hardware like “FlyCam”.

[ Motion VR ]

Example:
Immersivsions
Denis Gliksman
World in Motion VR
Dynamic Surround Video

Tutorials:
Inertia, LLC
Cheep way to do Panaramic Video

Hardware:
FlyCam
Full View
Point Grey

QTVR

As most of people have known, there are at last three different kinds of VR. One is Panorama VR another one is Object VR the other is Cubic VR.

The fallowing links that I show are different experience for using VR. For example, we can combine QTVR with SMILE or other language to build a virtual shopping mall. The other example is showing the Cubic VR underwater.

[ QTVR ]

Example:
Shopping Example
reFocus

Tutorals:
Goal
Learn QTVR in 10 mints

Software:
VR Worx
Stitcher

QuickTime

QuickTime player is not only one of the video players but also a great video authoring tools in the world. Although we can easily find the reference from Apple’s website, there are couple things that I would like to emphasize. They are VR in motion, Media Skin and Text Track.

LiveStage Pro is one of the best tools that I have used. It works very well if you want to build the interactive video with QuickTime format and don’t like hand coding with the QScript. You can probably get most of things done by using this cool authoring tool.

[ QuickTime ]

References:
QuickTime Fundamentals
Interactive Movies
Resources Page
Developer Page
Authouring Tools list
Another List

Software:
Live Stage Pro - QuickTime Interactive Authoring Tool
Blue Abuse (not available)
BackStage - Live Stage references

DVD project !

The initial idea is we don’t want this project looks like a regular DVD-menu project. After discussion for a long time, we decide to create an unlimited looping video. The beginning part of the DVD video is also the end of the video. In the video, we prepare one container and three elements. One jar include water, another one has coffee. The third one is a live fish. The rule is user can click ether one of the jar or fish, but you will never see the coffee will mix with cute fish.