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Creating Objects Using Quicktime VR
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Collect images

Collecting images for use in QuickTime VR is simple. You may use a digital camera or a regular camera to take snap shots.  Using ITD-FITC's Digital Sony Mavica with a 48mm lens, we needed to capture 26-28 images at 13.8° intervals. 

Use the following chart to determine how many images you will need to capture.

Lens (mm) Number of Images Degrees Difference
14 or 15 12 30
18 or 20 12 30
22 or 24 18 20
27 18 20
35 20 18
42 24 15
48 26 13.8
50 28 12.9

ITD-FITC's Cameras and Lens

  • Sony MVC-FD5       LENS: f=4.8, 35mm Conversion (f=47mm)
  • Sony MVC-FD51     LENS: Fixed, 4.8, 35mm Conversion (f=40-400mm)
  • Sony MVC-FD81     LENS: f=5.2-15.6, 35mm Conversion (f=37-111mm)

We created a circle labeled with our intervals, and placed it on a "lazy Susan" that you can purchase at any discount kitchen supply store. 

  1. Place the object on the "lazy Susan" with the circle below it. You should also have a steady support for your camera such as a tripod. 
  2. Take a picture of the object starting on section one. 
  3. Move the object to section 2 and take another photo. 
  4. Continue doing this for every section until you have the number of images that you need.

Now you are ready to build your Object!

Building object in QuickTime VR

  1. Open up QuickTime VR Authoring Studio.
  2. Choose File >New and select "Object Maker."
  3. A dialog box will appear. Give your object a name.
  4. Click "Save."
  5. The object maker window will appear. Click "Define object."

The Define Object window appears and you need to enter the number of rows and columns in your object and the degrees separating each column.

The column number equals the number of photographs you took, and the row number is for the angle at which you shot. 

If you only shot one angle (as in straight-ahead) you only need enter 1 row.  Make sure you also enter the degrees separating each image that you shot.  Here we entered 13.8 since we shot with a 48-mm lens and 26 photos.

Next we click "Add Files"

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A dialog box opens. Select the images you want to use, and click "Done."  It will place them in the window for you automatically. You can rotate the images if necessary by choosing the rotate option.

Click on the "Settings" button next.

While in the settings, you can assign File information such as copyright notice.  Most of the other options such as Compression, Object and Playback, should be left at default.

 

After that information has been completed, Click "Make Object."  It will take a few minutes for the object to be created.

You now have a playable movie.  If you want to turn your object into a VR movie, you need to use an additional tool called the VR Movies PPC tool.

VR Movies PPC

  1. Open VR Movies PPC.
  2. Choose File > Open and choose filename.obj.
  3. Choose File > Save As and type in the new name for your movie. It automatically puts the .mov extension on your file.

This movie can be placed in PowerPoint files, on the web, or in Director projects.



  
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