Welcome to the QuickTime third-party component page. With QuickTime’s open architecture, third-party developers can create components, or plug-ins to QuickTime. These third-party components expand the functionality of QuickTime, allowing QuickTime to play additional media types. If you encounter media that requires the installation of a third-party QuickTime component, please follow the link below to the third-party developer’s web site to see if it is available for download.
On2’s full-screen, full-motion, TV-quality codec is now available to QuickTime users. As part of the QuickTime component download program, users will automatically receive the On2 VP3 QuickTime Component the first time a VP3-encoded video is requested.
The On2 VP3 QuickTime Component enables encoding with QuickTime Pro, or any other QuickTime-compliant encoding application. For Mac OS and Windows. New OS X version now available.
ZyGoVideo’s great looking, smooth playing, web-video codec is now available as part of the QuickTime 5 component download program. ZyGoVideo provides high-quality video at prevalent modem rates (28.8 and 56 kbps). The ZyGoVideo component adds encoding capabilities to QuickTime Pro. For PPC Mac OS and Windows platforms. New OS X version now available.
iPIX provides immersive, 360° by 360° images for real estate, e-commerce, travel and hospitality, and entertainment sites. iPIX immersive images offer viewers the opportunity to navigate a scene on their own terms, looking in any direction, and zooming in and out as they choose. The iPIX component for QuickTime allows playback of these immersive images within QuickTime.
The Zoomify QuickTime Component makes Web images stream for fast initial display and on-demand viewing of fine details. Interactively zoom-in and explore gigabyte images, object movies, and even cubic panoramas. Zoomify streaming requires no special server software. Encoding is easy with Zoomify’s Authoring Plug-in for Adobe Photoshop. Component available for Mac OS and Windows. New Mac OS X version now available.
Streambox ACT-L2 Codec delivers full-screen, full-motion video of VHS/DVD quality at 200 - 1200 Kbps. Streambox ACT-L2 (Advanced Compression Technology - Level 2) provides unequaled video quality over dialup as well as DSL and cable modems. Engineered to take advantage of QuickTime cross-platform capabilities, ACT-L2 allows the display of crisp digital content to both the TV and computer monitor (PC and Mac).
Axel is a 3D authoring tool to model, animate, add interactivity, preview and publish to the Web — in one complete package.
Fully interact with AXEL content as it plays in QuickTime, with AXEL’s advanced 3D animation effects intact. For Mac OS X, and on Windows, AXEL’s QuickTime component truly hands over the 3rd dimension, with meaningful interactivity, to QuickTime users. Go even further by adding QuickTime Pro effects to AXEL work.
Kaydara’s FBX for QuickTime enables QuickTime as a 3D viewing solution that supports content from any professional 3D package. With FBX for QuickTime, digital artists can share, view, and interact with 3D content seamlessly, efficiently, and at no cost. Now available for both Mac OS X and Windows.
SheerVideo is a powerful, faster-than-real-time nondestructive codec for production, postproduction, and archival. For uncompressed formats, SheerVideo doubles disk speed, disk capacity, and transmission bandwidth with perfect fidelity, bit-for-bit identical to the original. Supports all standard uncompressed formats: RGB, YCbCr; 4:4:4, 4:2:2; optional alpha; 10bit, 8bit; progressive, interlaced; SD, HD, anyD; NTSC, PAL; 4:3, 16:9, any:any; arbitrary frame rate. Includes Synchromy™ nondestructive color conversion.
Totally Hip’s QScript Extension Essentials (QSXE) component allows you to utilize custom wired actions inside your QuickTime movies. Wired actions allow a QuickTime movie to modify and control itself (and other QuickTime movies) via scripts embedded within the movie.
QSXE Key Features:
- Store and retrieve data using cookies
- Print directly within your QuickTime movie
- Add video into Panoramic VRs
You can author using this component with LiveStage Professional — Totally Hip’s award winning QuickTime authoring package.”M
Totally Hip’s Audio Visualizations component allows you to visualize audio in the form of a spectrogram, waveform, or spectrum analyzer.
The Audio Visualizations components were developed by Totally Hip Technologies Inc. for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology - Macaulay Library & Bioacoustics Research Program.
You can author using this component with LiveStage Professional — Totally Hip’s award winning QuickTime authoring package.