Ideas and Suggestions on Generating Frames for a Movie

[Jim Lambert]

> what I would like to be able
> to do is it put the background pixels into a pixel buffer, then the
> pixels of each object in the frame into a the same pixel buffer
> (overwriting the background) and then pass this buffer to an external
> command that would write one frame of the QuickTime movie.

Import snapshot would give you an image of the current frame.
Depending on the capabilities of your QuickTime thingy you might be 
able to pass the imagedata of that image directly to it.
Or,
export snapshot to create a numbered series of JPEGs which is then 
post-processed by your QuickTime thingy into a movie.

Jim Lambert