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The QuickTime engineers have a problem. The API is huge and difficult to get into, various parts are obsolete and replaced by newer ones and therefore it is error-prone, and it needs to get away from the old MacOS API.
For OS X developers, Apple has made QtKit for Objective C developers so that normal people [...]

When creating rather complex hierarchies, there are some things you wouldn”t essentially want to deal with. To facilitate these one of my favourite ideas comes into play: Automation.

Updated November 2009 for Quicktime 7 and Vista 64-bit
I have written a codec which allows QuickTime to read .pic files.
A few people have manually associated .pic files with the XSI flipbook or another viewer, but most people have them associated with the QuickTime Picture Viewer by default.
Installing this will not change your current file associations, [...]

Sometimes when you’re trying your hardest to put together a rig that the animators won’t break, you wish that XSI had something like Houdini’s digital assets. In case you haven’t come across Houdini yet, “Digital Assets” are a way of encapsulating a group of objects and hiding everything except for certain items that you choose. [...]