Developer Resources

Apple provides numerous resources to help engineers learn about QuickTime technologies to make your job easier. This includes documentation, sample code, development kits, technical support, software seeding, and testing/compatibility.

QuickTime developers web site - You will find many useful links, cross-platform tools, resources and suggestions for starting points here.

QuickTime web site - If you want to download QuickTime, check out the hot picks, movie trailers and find links to QuickTime content, content creation and authoring, this is where you want to start.

Apple QuickTime API documentation - Includes information on QuickTime for Macintosh and Windows, QuickTime VR, and the Sound Manager. Also links to Ice Floe engineering documents, Technotes and Q&As related to QuickTime.

Sample Code - Contains QuickTime samples ranging from the basics of viewing movies to video capture, components, importers/exporters to wired movies and sprites.

QuickTime Software Development Kit (SDK) - The QuickTime SDK provides everything you need to create applications, interactive content, and more. The SDK includes Macintosh and Windows versions of QuickTime Pro and bundles the Interfaces and Libraries, Sample Code, Technical Documentation and Tools on one convenient CD. You can also choose an SDK bundle that includes a QuickTime book with CD-ROM authored by members of Apple's QuickTime team.

Letters from the Ice Floe - These are technical notes from the frozen home of the QuickTime Engineering team. Each document contains some useful tips on taking best advantage of QuickTime.

QuickTime Developer Series Books:

Discovering QuickTime:
An Introduction for Windows and Macintosh Programmers by George Towner
Academic Press/Morgan Kaufmann
ISBN 0120596407

Written for programmers, multimedia designers, and everyone interested in the latest media technology, this book gives you a step-by-step introduction to QuickTime programming, from movies and animation to streaming video on the Internet. The CD-ROM in the back provides working applications, sample code, and the essential programming resources you need to get started.

QuickTime for Java:
A Developer Reference by Tom Maremaa and William Stewart
Academic Press/Morgan Kaufmann
ISBN 0123054400

This book is an essential quick reference for the QuickTime and Java programmer. It provides the reader with a wealth of programming examples as well as a handy reference that provides an in-depth, class-by-class description of the API. The authors are part of the original QuickTime engineering team that pioneered and developed QuickTime for Java. A CD-ROM at the back of the book provides working sample code and other resources, so you can get started right away building your own Java applications and applets.

QuickTime for the Web:
A Hands-On Guide by Steven Gulie
Morgan Kaufmann
ISBN 012471255X

This is the complete guide to creating QuickTime content and putting it on the Web. It covers everything-from the right way to embed a movie in a Web page to the best techniques for combining scrolling text, Flash animation, MP3 audio, live streams, and virtual reality-in an engaging and easy to follow style.

Written for multimedia authors, Web heads, and anyone who wants to include sound or video on a website, this book provides clear, detailed, and often humorous guidance. This book contains a wealth of information you won't find anywhere else.

Mailing lists - run by Apple & others. Includes QuickTime-API, QuickTime-Talk, QuickTime-VR and QuickTime-Java.

Authoring and Development tools - provided by Apple. These include Dumpster, Hint track profiler, MakeRefMovie and others.

Third-Party Tools - There are hundreds of third-party applications and hardware solutions for capturing, editing, and integrating QuickTime content (including QuickDraw 3D and QuickTime VR).

ADC - The Apple Developer Connection programs offer easy access to technical and business resources for Apple platform developers anywhere in the world. Join one of our membership programs for the benefits and services you need to develop, distribute, and market your products. Some benefits and services are available only when bundled with a membership. You may also purchase some individual developer products and services on as-needed basis.

Download 'An Introduction to QuickTime' - A PDF version of this document.

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