Tip für Motion-Grafiker:

Installiert Euch die Dev-Tools von Tiger und startet mal den Quartz Composer.
Animationen, die mit Motion in PAL weit unter RealTime liegen, erreichen dort mehr als 60 fps bei höherer Auflösung. Natürlich ist der QC nicht so bequem zu bedienen, erinnert eher an die Nodes-Struktur aus Shake oder Combustion. Und natürlich soll dieses kostenlose MiniTool auch nicht als Ersatz für Shake oder Motion herhalten, aber mit ein paar Tricks kann man schon richtig geile Features entdecken, die Motion nicht bietet. Man kann seine Animationen auch als Quicktime Filmchen mit Alpha Kanal exportieren und in Motion oder FCP importieren.

Das ist eben das schöne an Tiger, der ganze Image/Video-Effektkram ist schon auf dem System und die Motion-Programme bieten nur noch den bequemeren Zugang dahin.

Kuck mal hier



Build a Screen Saver
To turn your images into a screen saver, you’ll need to switch to Quartz Composer (see “That Personal Touch”), which consists of an Editor window (D), where you build your creations, and a Viewer window (E), which renders the current settings. To create a composition (Apple’s name for Quartz Composer documents), you drag patches—composition building blocks—from the Patch Library (F) into the workspace (G) and string them together.

If you don’t want to build compositions from scratch, use existing Quartz compositions as points of departure. You can turn any composition into a screen saver by dropping it into your Screen Saver folder. For this project, you’re going to use your Fun House images to modify one that displays text on a rotating cube.


That Personal Touch To add your images to the screen saver, delete the Image With String patches, drag your images into the workspace, and connect them to the input ports on the Cube patch. With a few changes, this stock Quartz composition becomes a custom screen saver that‘ll remind you of pleasures to come.


Step 1 When you launch Quartz Composer, you’ll see the Quartz Composer Assistant pane, which lets you select from a handful of templates. From the Finder, navigate to the /Developer/Examples/Quartz Composer/Motion Graphics Compo-sitions folder and double-click on the Introduction.qtz file.

Four Image With String patches (G) control the cube text. The green titles indicate that these are Processor patches, which process data and pass the results to the pink Consumer patches, which in turn render the results. You connect green and pink patches by stringing hose-like connectors between their ports (indicated by small circles on the patches). Ports pass parameters from one patch to another, telling the composition what to do.

Step 2 To replace the cube text with your images, select the topmost Image With String patch by clicking on it. Notice that its Image port connects to the Front Image port of the Cube patch. Since you don’t want text, press the delete key to get rid of the Image With String patch.

Step 3 Drag the image you created in Fun House from the desktop into the workspace. An Image importer patch appears with the title of the image you selected. For an explanation of what the patch does, click on it and select Information from the Inspector’s drop-down menu (if you don’t see the Inspector, go to Editor: Show Inspector, or press Command-I).

Step 4 Reconnect the two patches by clicking on the Image port in your new patch and dragging your mouse to the Front Image port in the Cube patch. The image will now appear on the front of the cube. If you don’t see it, wait for the cube to rotate around.

Step 5 Repeat the above steps to delete the other three Image With String patches and replace them with your images. Be sure to attach an image only to the Left Image, Right Image, and Back Image ports. If you attach an image to the Top Image or Bottom Image ports by mistake, you won’t see them.

Step 6 Your cube looks good, but you can’t see the screen saver’s background text. To move it to the front, you need to change the rendering order (indicated by the yellow number) in the top right corner of the Title patch. Control-click on the pink Title patch and select Rendering Layer: Layer 3.

Look closely at the Title patch and you’ll notice that its corners are square, whereas the others’ are slightly rounded. This indicates that it’s a macro patch (a patch that contains other patches). To change the text, you’ll need to access its subpatches. Double-click on the Title patch to display the subpatches in their own workspace. Find the topmost Billboard patch and double-click on its Color port. In the Colors palette, choose a color and click on Done. To return to the main workspace, select Edit Parent from the Editor menu or press Command-U.

To change the text to something else, double-click on the String port in the Title patch. Edit the text and press return.

Step 7 Save your composition by selecting File: Save As. Navigate to /your user folder/Library/Screen Savers and save the file. Go to the Screen Saver tab of the Desktop &Screen Saver preference pane, select the file from the list, and click on the Test button.

Da gibt's noch ein paar andere Coole versteckte Spielsachen die in Tiger versteckt sind wie:
FileMerge
IconComposer
Pixie
Repeat After Me
Sample Widgets (/Developer/Examples/Dashboard)

viel spaße

Hallo Leute!

Kennt jemand von euch paar Websites, wo man alles über QC erlernen kann? Sowas wie Workshops usw.