What's New in QuickTime 5

Usage of the QTVR Splitter

As discussed, the QTVR Splitter is a movie export component. When placed in your System Folder, any application that uses movie exporters will have access to it. The instructions outlined here use the QuickTime Player Pro application to demonstrate its usage. You begin by creating a multinode movie, using a QuickTime VR tool.

To split the movie:

Open any QTVR version 2.0 or 2.1 multinode movie in the QuickTime Player Pro application. Version 1.0 multinode movies can be converted to version 2.1 using the QTVR Converter component, which is part of the QuickTime VR Authoring Studio, or ConVRter from Sumware, a third-party developer.
Choose Export... from the File menu. Choose Separate Single-node movies from the popup menu at the bottom of the Export dialog. The file name you specify here will be edited by the Splitter to assure Internet compatibility. Spaces will be converted to underscores, other dangerous characters will be removed, and the resulting name will be truncated to allow the node number to be appended. Take this into account in order to wind up with useful file names at the end of the process.
Clicking the options... button opens the splitters settings dialog.

Generate HTML Embed tags: The splitter will write out a text file including an embed tag for each movie which can be copied and pasted into your HTML pages. Useful data included are the sizes of the movies as well as all of the hotspots and their URLs. Although the URLs are included in the movies, this list can be helpful if you want to override a URL or provide one for an undefined hotspot.
Overwrite Files with matching names: Since the Splitter creates names that are different from the name you specify in the dialog, there is no "replace" confirmation. Leaving this box checked allows the Splitter to overwrite files which have the same names as those it is creating. Since these names are pretty unusual, the chances are that the only files it will overwrite are those created by it from the same source movie. Unchecking this box will cause the Splitter to abort its operation if it runs into a file with a matching name.
Use QTVR Flattener: The Splitter will use the QTVR Flattener to add fast-start data to the files exported, along with an optional preview track for any panorama nodes. Clicking the options... button will open the Flattener's settings dialog. If this is unchecked, the movies will still be flattened, and will still download their tiles, but not with the tile reordering or preview added by the QTVR Flattener.

Click OK and let the Splitter do its work.
Test the movies by dragging the first node into a browser window.

What's New in QuickTime 5