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- This is an involved tutorial that shows full use of VRtools suite of software
- Print this document and follow the steps exactly.
- ** IMPORTANT Copy this folder to your hard drive first**
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- The aim is produce a web ready, small QTVR multinode.
- We start by extracting some half resolution panoramic pictures from an
- ancient 20 node QTVR 1.0 multinode with conVRter(using AppleScript).
- Then PanoMAGIC is used to quickly create a new linked 3 node QTVR 2.0
- movie, adding some extra hotspots for later assignment with conVRter.
- Then conVRter is used to add streaming preview pictures, assign some
- urls and do default node setup, again with a single AppleScript.
- Next a video overlay is added with MoviePlayer (QuickTime 3.0 Pro).
- Finally deliVRator is used to optimize the file media for streaming.
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- ===> You may want to start right at the beginning
- 1 Open the large 20 node "Greenwoodv1.mov" in conVRter
- 2 Set the Reverse... dialog to extract 1:2 sized panoramic pictures
- Run "extract node pictures" script
- [Optional: Use PanoTouch to add some burn-in prewarped text]
- 3 Make a new Project in PanoMAGIC "PM Project"
- Create 3 nodes in Node Tab
- Add the extracted pictures to each node
- [check that pesky Show All PICTS box]
- Link the 3 nodes together
- Add 2 'undf' hotspots for the TVs in node 2:
- create hotspot on left TV with color #134
- create hotspot on right TV with color #109
- (or change the conVRter script(s) to the new hotspot ids)
- Set project tiling 1x12 [so PanoMAGIC doesnt resize the images]
- Set compression to Photo-JPEG 75%
- Set Project Preference to create a QTVR 2.0 movie
- Create the QTVR 2.0 movie as "MiniGreenwoodPM.mov"
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- ==> Or you can start here for a tutorial of conVRter Applescripting
- 4 Open "MiniGreenwoodPM.mov" in conVRter to web prep the movie
- Run "the whole shebang" script [depends on particular hotspot ids set in PanoMAGIC]
- This outputs new movie "minibarplus.mov"
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- ==> Now the really cool stuff: MoviePlayer plus deliVRator
- 5 Open the resulting streaming previewed QTVR in MoviePlayer (QT 3.0 Pro)
- and add a video overlay track "greenwood.over1.mov" as follows
- Open "minibarplus.mov" in MoviePlayer
- Get Info:Movie:Controller: change from QTVR to Movie Controller (needs Pro)
- Import an overlay picture "greenwood.over1.pict" as a movie
- Select all and copy to clipboard.
- Bring "minibarplus.mov" window to front.
- Select All then SHIFT-OPTION plus menu Edit:Paste = Edit:Add Scaled
- Get Info: Select the last video track
- Get Info:General:Rename "Video Track 10 - Overlay"
- Get Info:Size: Adjust: to move the track 20 pixels up
- Get Info:Movie:Controller: change back to QTVR
- Save As [Make Self Contained] as "minibarplusplus.mov"
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- 6 Open "minibarplusplus.mov" with deliVRator
- Test streaming at say 56K and notice how poorly it streams
- since it was flattened by MoviePlayer: The video overlay is very late
- and the hotspots are not stream early enough for good interactivity.
- Execute the Arrange QTVR Media command and test the streaming
- [You may want to move that pesky overlay just a bit early in file
- Use the Media Tracks window to select the last track media block
- switch to the Media Map and its the selected block]
- Save as "minibar.mov"
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- and ftp it to your site :-)
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