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Mac Application Development by Example: Beginner's Guide

By : Robert Wiebe
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Mac Application Development by Example: Beginner's Guide

By: Robert Wiebe

Overview of this book

It's never been more important to have the ability to develop an App for Mac OS X. Whether it's a System Preference, a business app that accesses information in the Cloud, or an application that uses multi-touch or uses a camera, you will have a solid foundation in app development to get the job done.Mac Application Development by Example takes you through all the aspects of using the Xcode development tool to produce complete working apps that cover a broad range of topics. This comprehensive book on developing applications covers everything a beginner needs to know and demonstrates the concepts using examples that take advantage of some of the most interesting hardware and software features available.You will discover the fundamental aspects of OS X development while investigating innovative platform features to create a final product which take advantage of the unique aspects of OS X.Learn how to use Xcode tools to create and share Mac OS X apps. Explore numerous OS X features including iCloud, multi-touch trackpad, and the iSight camera.This book provides you with an illustrated and annotated guide to bring your idea to life using fundamental concepts that work on Mac.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Mac Application Development by Example Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 8. Video Recording – iSight Recorder

In Chapter 7, On Capturing Still Images with the iSight Camera, we examined the Image Kit component of the Quartz framework, which includes classes focused on providing support for capturing and displaying still images. In this chapter, we will examine another framework, Quicktime Kit. Specifically, we will examine Quicktime Kit Capture, which is a subset of the QTKit framework and includes classes focused on providing support for capturing movies.

In this chapter, we shall learn the following:

  • What is Quicktime Kit Capture and how does it work?

  • Previewing the video capture

  • Capturing a single frame as a still image

  • Previewing audio capture

  • Capturing a movie to disk

  • Capturing compressed movies to disk