QTVR Authoring Studio - Stitcher Tutorial
Drag the 14 individual shots into the main Panorama Stitcher window. Make each shot is no bigger than 1024x768, or the software might complain about a lack of memory, depending on your hardware specs.

 
You only need to save the PICT (we'll export to MOV format in the next step.) By saving to PICT format first, you get a chance to bring that image into any advanced editing program (eg. Photoshop) to touch it up, adjust color levels, or mask out any double images that might be showing.
Rotate & Sort all images in the correct order (if needed).

The lens should beset to QuickTake 150 Portrait; also, assuming you used a Nikon Coolpix 990 with a wide-angle lens, you should set the (horizontal) Alignment to approx. 32 degrees.
To do so, click the pulldown Lens menu, and scroll down to Edit...

Enter '32.0' (or your calculated overlap based on the equipment used to shoot) in the Recommended degrees between images box. If you're not sure, QTVR Authoring Studio also does a good job estimating. To give that a try, hit the Estimate... button. All the other settings (focal length, image rotation, etc.) can be left on their default value.

Next, we have to manually align the overlap between each of the 14 images. This can be a very tedious process, if the pano you're working on doesn't have any visual cues to help with alignment. Click the small gray triangle between each pair of images in order to manually align them.
Use the mouse to drag the right image over and align it with the left. for more precise adjustments, you can nudge the image using the arrow keys.

The best results are obtained by aligning the center of the overlapping region so that it looks clear/crisp. It's okay if the surrounding area looks blurred - QTVR Authoring Studio seems to eliminate double images pretty well.

Hit the button to stitch the image.


QTVR Authoring Studio will then take 2-8 minutes to re-adjust, crop, stretch, sharpen and resize the stitched image. The result will be a ~13mb PICT file that can be brought into the Panorama Maker component of Authoring Studio to complete our 360-degree pano (and to be able to export it as a MOV file).