Quartz Composer and iTunes Visualizers

I can simplify my question to one word: How?
I've looked around on here and online for help on making a visualizer. I want to make a very very very simple one (one like Fire storm or ocean mist on Windows Media Player, just a bunch of bars) but I don't have a single idea how to do it. I can't even figure out the template one that loads in the Leopard version of QC.
Does anyone know how to use it that would be able to explain it? If not, does anyone know where I can go to learn how to use it?

There is a lot of documentation on Apple's developer site, such as Graphics & Imaging.

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Quartz composer and shake

Lets get out the most important detail-- I'm very new to shake.
I like to use quartz composer to create backgrounds. When I try to bring in a quicktime movie I've created with Quartz Composer I only get the first frame of the movie then... black. My question is, is it possible to use a quicktime movie created in quartz composer in shake?
thanks for any ideas and input you have

Try FxFactory instead, its a much more advanced product and version 2 gives you access to the camera data in Motion.
http://www.noiseindustries.com/support/fxfactoryupdates/files/fxfactory_201.html
So if you can do the maths, you could easily write your own plugin that would be able to orientate an object within a plane as you suggest.
And as I used FxF to write Volumetrix, I have to add the disclaimer
Peter
I may receive some form of compensation, financial or otherwise, from my recommendation or link.

Quartz composer and mac os 10 6 8

I d like to know where can i found quart composer and how to install it instead the one i 've got which is not running? Does somebody's know? thanks by advance

Unless you've tried this already, before you roll back to 10.6.7 it may be worth re-installing the 10.6.8 update using the combo updater: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1399
The combo has all the updates since 10.6. Sometimes on this forum people report issues after doing the latest point update to the OS. Using the combo often, though not always, fixes things.
It's worth repairing disk permissions before and after updating.

[Suggestions to Apple] Year Composed and iTunes sharing...

I don't know if posting this is moot or not, but it would be great if iTunes had a info/view option to input "Year Composed" in addition to the "Year" which is used for the CD release. For example, I have a 2007 recording of Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians but the piece was composed from 1974-1976.
Another suggestion I had was if iTunes could notify when someone connects to your iTunes library through iTunes sharing.

Thanks for the feedback. As far as sharing goes, I know people can't modify the library, but you only know when someone is connected when you try to quit iTunes. I'd like to know if/when someone connects just while I'm on iTunes. It's not a big deal though.
I know you can put info in the comments section, but the "Year Composed" would be nice for sorting options. Thanks for your input though.

Quartz Composer and iPhone

I have done several searches and seen conflicting information on displaying QTZ files on the iPhone. More articles said No than said Yes but I wanted to confirm.

Sorry,help me

How do I install Quartz Composer on my imac 7-27"??

I am trying to get into Quartz Composer and I am very confsed since imac 7-27' doesn't come with a cd-instal anymore. I tried to do online, installing xcode 4 from the apple site, but at some point it says that i never used itunes store and ask me for my billing details...it's confusing since Quartz Composer is a free aplication. Any ideas on how to dwonload this. On SnowLeopard you can do it through your instal cd, But how to do it in Lion????
Much appreciated!!

You need to provide billing information to DL from the App Store, whether or not you buy anything. That's the only way to get anything, including free stuff, from the App Store.

Quartz Composer Visualizer crashes.

Hi, I'm a great fan of Quartz Composer, and would like to start playing with multiple screen composition. I can successfully run a composition fullscreen on my own mac with QC visualizer. However, whenever I try to start one of my compositions in Quartz Composer Visualizer with an external screen connected, I just get a black screen. If I try one of apple's prebuilt compositions in the same 2 display configuration, my computer freezes (and I have to restart). I get the error log from console below:
Does anyone know how to fix this?
Many thanks.
<start log>
24/01/2009 13:16:31 Quartz Composer Visualizer[219] * <QCNodeManager | namespace = "com.apple.QuartzComposer" | 335 nodes>: Patch with name "QCPlugInPatch:ImageInfo" is missing
24/01/2009 13:16:31 Quartz Composer Visualizer[219] * Message from <QCPatch = 0x1BB2D430 "(null)">:
Cannot create node of class "QCPlugInPatch" and identifier "ImageInfo"
24/01/2009 13:16:31 Quartz Composer Visualizer[219] * Message from <QCPatch = 0x1BB2D430 "(null)">:
Cannot create connection from ["outputImage" @ "SepiaTone_1"] to ["inputImage" @ "PlugInPatchImageInfo1"]
24/01/2009 13:16:31 Quartz Composer Visualizer[219] * State restoration failed on <QCPatch = 0x1BB2D430 "(null)">
24/01/2009 13:16:31 Quartz Composer Visualizer[219] * <QCNodeManager | namespace = "com.apple.QuartzComposer" | 335 nodes>: Patch with name "QCPlugInPatch:ImageInfo" is missing
24/01/2009 13:16:31 Quartz Composer Visualizer[219] * Message from <QCPatch = 0x15E1BB10 "(null)">:
Cannot create node of class "QCPlugInPatch" and identifier "ImageInfo"
24/01/2009 13:16:31 Quartz Composer Visualizer[219] * Message from <QCPatch = 0x15E1BB10 "(null)">:
Cannot create connection from ["outputImage" @ "SepiaTone_1"] to ["inputImage" @ "PlugInPatchImageInfo1"]
24/01/2009 13:16:31 Quartz Composer Visualizer[219] * State restoration failed on <QCPatch = 0x15E1BB10 "(null)">
24/01/2009 13:16:37 Quartz Composer Visualizer[219] * <QCNodeManager | namespace = "com.apple.QuartzComposer" | 335 nodes>: Patch with name "QCPlugInPatch:ImageInfo" is missing
24/01/2009 13:16:37 Quartz Composer Visualizer[219] * Message from <QCPatch = 0x1BBCCA00 "(null)">:
Cannot create node of class "QCPlugInPatch" and identifier "ImageInfo"
24/01/2009 13:16:37 Quartz Composer Visualizer[219] * Message from <QCPatch = 0x1BBCCA00 "(null)">:
Cannot create connection from ["outputImage" @ "SepiaTone_1"] to ["inputImage" @ "PlugInPatchImageInfo1"]
24/01/2009 13:16:37 Quartz Composer Visualizer[219] * State restoration failed on <QCPatch = 0x1BBCCA00 "(null)">
24/01/2009 13:16:37 Quartz Composer Visualizer[219] Sharing OpenGL contexts between drawing renderers #1 and #0
24/01/2009 13:16:37 Quartz Composer Visualizer[219] * <QCNodeManager | namespace = "com.apple.QuartzComposer" | 335 nodes>: Patch with name "QCPlugInPatch:ImageInfo" is missing
24/01/2009 13:16:37 Quartz Composer Visualizer[219] * Message from <QCPatch = 0x2903C2C0 "(null)">:
Cannot create node of class "QCPlugInPatch" and identifier "ImageInfo"
24/01/2009 13:16:37 Quartz Composer Visualizer[219] * Message from <QCPatch = 0x2903C2C0 "(null)">:
Cannot create connection from ["outputImage" @ "SepiaTone_1"] to ["inputImage" @ "PlugInPatchImageInfo1"]
24/01/2009 13:16:37 Quartz Composer Visualizer[219] * State restoration failed on <QCPatch = 0x2903C2C0 "(null)">

I had the same error message and removed the 'Quartz Composer Visualizer' plug-in. iTunes seemed to load faster afterwards. Bt now the console gives me the error message that the 'Quartz Composer Visualizer' plug-in could not be found. So any way to remove references to the 'Quartz Composer Visualizer' in iTunes or a way to install a working version of the plug-in.

Quartz composer: audio frequency question

Hey there guys. I'm fairly new to quartz composer, and I've been playing around with it to make some cool audio visualizers. I have a couple of neat projects that have every object reacting to a whole sound, but I'd like to take it a step further by having certain objects react to specific frequencies. Something like, say, a cube's width reacts to 200-500 hertz, and the hight reacts to 2000+ hertz, or something like that. Is there any way to make that happen?

Can't answer your specific question, but you should post to the developer forums under OS X Technologies. Additionally, Xcode->Help->Developer Documentation0->Search on quartz should point you in the right direction. Here are some items listed there:
• Quartz Composer User Guide
• Quartz Composer Player
• Quartz Composer CommandLineTool

Screensaver crashing when made with Quartz Composer using Asynchronous Mode?

Hi all, I made a screensaver using video in Quartz Composer but the playback was choppy. I went into settings and used Asynchronous Mode, which sorted this out. It was running fine at first. Runs well in viewer and runs when I select test screensaver. I powered the mac up this morning and any of the screensavers using Asynchronous Mode they start for a second and then the screensaver stops suddenly. Again they work fine whilst test screensaver button is used and in the QC viewer but suddenly not when I use hot corners or when the Screensaver activates???
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thank you

I downloaded his pre-built version and fiddled with it a bit, putting in a .mov file. The saver crashed System Prefs. Discovered that the quartz composition would only open in QT7, not QTX. I tried a quartz composition that did not have a movie in it, and that worked as a screen saver. I tried the movie saver, replaced the movie with one that did open in QTX, which would work in the Finder and QuickLook, although it ran only in QT7 (as do all my old qtz compostions), but it still crashed System Prefs. Unfortunately I haven't installed Developer Tools for Snow Leopard, so don't know if you could get it to work using the latest iteration of Quartz Composer and rebuilding the composition there--don't even know if there is a new Quartz Composer.
I suspect there is a problem between 32bit and 64bit things, although exactly what that might be I don't know, since the straight qtz compositions, without a movie, seem to work in screen saver mode.
Using the QT7 only movie produced a slightly different crash report than using the QTX compatible movie. I have seen other reports of non-Apple screen savers that will not run in Snow Leopard, with the statement that the savers must be re-compiled to work in 64bit. My quess is that really simple quartz compositions use the quartz engine available in Snow Leopard, and thus even though built with a 32bit Quartz Composer do run as 64bit, by calling only Snow Leopard functions, and thus will work, but that the movie saver has something inherently 32bit in it and so causes a conflict.
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Quartz Composer - Effects of Other Cards? Any New Ideas?

I have read the discussions here about Quartz Composer, and noticed a mix of difficulties:
1 hardware restrictions (G4 or video card)
2 can't get preview (white screen), but can get render
3 can get preview, but can't get render (white screen)
4 can't get either preview or render
5 get greyed or coloured results in renders
I'm suffering 4 - no preview or render - but not 1 - I have a G5 2G Dual Processor, with an ATI Radeon Pro 9600. (I see ripples when widgets launch.)
In this context, are there any new ideas?
One observation: to find out the name of my video card, I ran system profiler, to be reminded that I have:
- an old ATI card driving a second monitor in a PCI slot
- an Alchemy TV card also in a PCI slot
I know it's tempting to blame the cards for the iMovie difficulty, especially since we are talking about a video problem, and both are video cards, so I want to ask:
- are there any people with these kinds of cards having no problem at all?
- are there any people with similar cards experiencing similar problems?
G5 DP2G & G4/466 Mac OS X (10.4.5) 1.5 G RAM

"I know it's tempting to blame the cards for the
iMovie difficulty, especially since we are talking
about a video problem"
Have you tried pulling out [Alchemy TV and second monitor] cards, just to rule
them out as a source of the problem?
No... my thinking is that I'm an amateur iMovie user, and in the end I would feel more comfortable with my second montor and (very occasionally used!) TV than with a fully working iMovie. Hence my questions were directed at finding out whether others had:
- these problems without cards being fitted
- no problems despite cards being fitted
G5 DP2G & G4/466 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Quartz Composer isn't on my mac

I have Mac OS X 10.7.3, and I have installed numerous developer tools, including Xcode, Quartz Composer, Dashcode, and Instruments. I have used all of these before; several months ago, and they worked just fine. I recently wanted to use Quartz Composer, and I can't find it anywhere on my computer. The only place that has any reference to it is in the LaunchPad, which shows a question mark over the icon. Same for Dashcode and Instruments. How do I get these onto my Mac?

Adobe WHAT PROGRAM CS6?
Discussions of RE-installing
-http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1398961?tstart=0
-and http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/help/install-apps.html
-http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/cs5-cleaner-tool-installation-problems.html

My version of Quartz Composer will not run. How do I upgrade it to the latest version?

Please advise how to upgrade Quartz Composer and all the other developmetn tools I installed from an earlier version of OS X.

The Developer tools download page is at: Mac Dev Center - Apple Developer

I am having trouble with iTunes (possible Quartz Composer Visualizer problem) but have no idea how to fix it.

I tried to use my iTunes but the icon didn't show up and instead I get a folder. The folder is titled TunesApp and in it is another folder called Contents. Contents contains: _CodeSignature, Frameworks, Info.plist, MacOS, PkgInfo, Resources, and version.plist. In the folder MacOS is my iTunes and I can use it, but I get this message:
Last login: Sun Feb 24 13:13:15 on ttys000
unknown705681bcc901:~ kathrynbarber$ /TunesApp/Contents/MacOS/iTunes ; exit;
2013-02-24 13:13:20.988 The plugin 'Quartz Composer Visualizer' failed to load because it has the wrong CPU architecture for this version of iTunes. (3585)
Version from driver for Certificates 1
I can only use my iTunes as long as I keep the message open. When I close the message it tells me: "Closing this window will terminate the running processes: login, bash, iTunes." I have no idea what is going on with it as it was working not too long ago. I do not think I updated it recently but I could be wrong. Any help would be much appreciated.
Thank you!

Sounds like your computer is having additional issues. I suggest taking it to your nearest Apple Store.

Quartz Composer Visualizer crash iTunes

Hi All,
iTunes 10.4 is failing to launch, I continually get an error which reads "iTunes quit unexpectedly".
I ran a trace on /var/log/system.log and the error being report at launch time reads:
"The plugin 'Quartz Composer Visualizer' failed to load because it has the wrong CPU architecture for this version of iTunes. (3585)"
Any idea what this is and why it would not be compatible with my Intel i7 proc.
Many thanks in advance,
Mitch

I had the same error message and removed the 'Quartz Composer Visualizer' plug-in. iTunes seemed to load faster afterwards. Bt now the console gives me the error message that the 'Quartz Composer Visualizer' plug-in could not be found. So any way to remove references to the 'Quartz Composer Visualizer' in iTunes or a way to install a working version of the plug-in.

Keynote and Quartz Composer

I am fairly new to Quartz Composer, that being said I have built several animations that I want to add to Keynote presentations, but everytime I try to add them into Keynote they only last :30 sec. I have tried exporting as a .mov file and each time I do I am prompted to give the file an end time, I have tried several different times, and yet Keynote still gives it a :30 sec runtime. I have looked at the exported file in Quicktime and it also says the file is only :30 sec. I have been searching forums for some time now with no luck, but I have found that I am not the only one with this problem.
How can I get the QC file to last longer than :30 sec? Any help in this area would be greatly appreciated as this is really starting to wear on me. Thanks.

Welcome to the discussions, agentdavo.
I don't think it is. I tried the same thing (to try to get around QuickTime's 3 second limitation) and Keynote isn't allowing access to the video hardware.

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