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Inside Macintosh: QuickTime Components

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Movie Data Exchange Components

This chapter discusses movie data exchange components. Movie data exchange components allow applications to move various types of data into and out of a QuickTime movie. These components provide data conversion services to and from standard QuickTime movie data formats. Movie data import components convert other data formats into QuickTime's movie data format; movie data export components convert QuickTime movie data into other formats.

This chapter addresses developers of movie data exchange components. If you plan to create either a movie data import component or a movie data export component (or both), you should read the entire chapter. If you are writing an application that uses components of this type, you should read the first two sections ( "About Movie Data Exchange Components" and "Using Movie Data Exchange Components" ), and consult "Movie Data Exchange Components Reference" as appropriate.

As components, movie data exchange components rely on the facilities of the Component Manager. In order to use any component, your application must also use the Component Manager. If you are not familiar with this manager, see the chapter "Component Manager" in Inside Macintosh: More Macintosh Toolbox . In addition, you should be familiar with the Movie Toolbox. See "Movie Toolbox" in Inside Macintosh: QuickTime for more information.