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Inside Macintosh: QuickTime /
Chapter 2 - Movie Toolbox / Movie Toolbox Reference
Functions for Editing Movies


Editing Tracks

The Movie Toolbox provides a number of functions that allow your application to perform editing operations on tracks. These functions work with track segments--pieces of a track that are defined by a starting time and duration--and therefore give you a great deal of control over the editing process. These functions are similar to the low-level editing functions for movies that were described earlier in this chapter. However, these functions may copy movie data, if required by the operation.

When you edit a track you may change the duration of the movie that contains that track.

The CopyTrackSettings function lets you copy certain important settings from one track to another.

You can use the InsertTrackSegment function to copy a segment from one track to another. The InsertTrackEmptySegment function allows you to insert an empty segment into a track.

You can use the InsertMediaIntoTrack function to insert a media into a track.

Your application can delete a segment from a track by calling the DeleteTrackSegment function.

You can change a segment's duration by calling the ScaleTrackSegment function. This function stretches or shrinks the segment to accommodate a specified duration.

You can use the GetTrackEditRate function to determine the rate of the track edit of a specified track at an indicated time.


Subtopics
InsertTrackSegment
InsertEmptyTrackSegment
InsertMediaIntoTrack
DeleteTrackSegment
ScaleTrackSegment
CopyTrackSettings
GetTrackEditRate

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6 JUL 1996