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Apple QuickTime VR User Manual

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How to get started on your first QTVR project 9

Fundamentals of the QuickTime VR Authoring Studio interface 10

Setting QuickTime VR Authoring Studio preferences 11

General 11

Make 11

Files 12

Panoramas 13

Objects 13

Motion Control 14

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Making a Panorama From an Existing Panoramic Image 15

Using the Panorama Maker 16

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Stitching a Panorama From a Series of Images 23

Using the the Panorama Stitcher 23

Adding a lens 33

Estimating a lens 35

Aligning images 36

Getting image information 38

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Making Objects 39

Using the Object Maker 39

Capturing images directly 49

Creating objects with view states 51

Creating objects with two view states 51

Creating objects with more than two view states 52

Animating view frames 53

Creating absolute objects 55

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Making QTVR Scenes 59

Using the Scene Maker 59

Opening QuickTime VR Authoring Studio 60

Adding a map 60

Specifying output files 62

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