Using a project as a Screen saver?

I've made a motion project and I've made it to be a screen saver, but now the last and obivious difficult part comes:
How do I actually use it? :/
It would be a great help if anyone knew how to solve the problem for me
Thanks.

hi,
I've just been playing arond with Quartz Composer, and it is a relatively easy thing to do to make a screen saver. I tried first to import the motion project but this didnt work, so i rendered it out as an mp4 and this worked fine.
When you boot up Quartz it asks if you want to make a screen saver or other type of project. it then puts the document in the right folder for you.
For a very basic show a video layer only, you drag a Billboard Renderer to the editor, and an Image With Movie Generator. Click on the Image with Movie Generator icon in the editor, go over to the Inspector window and type in a path to the movie you want to display. So something on your desktop would be "~/desktop/myMovie.mov" Then join up the output of the Image With Movie to the Input of the Billboard Generator and you're done. You can test it by going over to the System preferences and checking it the Screen Saver Pane, or by simply opening it with Quicktime.
Hope this helps
regards
adam

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