So, I had a thought about using quicktime in Quartz Composer. I wondered if you could use a Quicktime plugin in order to use 3D objects in QC. So I downloaded the FBX plugin (from Alias) for QT and a model.

I can create a QT movie of the model (ie a .mov file) which works well inside QT - with full interaction. Import it into QC though and it works for a few seconds then you just get a white screen.

Here‘s what I think is happening; the movie imports correctly and starts playing correctly, then QC grabs it and tries to render it as frames - which obviously won’t work. So then, I have a new feature request - show Quicktime as Quicktime!

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