About Movies

This section discusses the characteristics that govern playing and storing movies, tracks, and media structures. This section has been divided into the following topics:

"Movie Characteristics" discusses the time, display, and sound characteristics of a QuickTime movie
"Track Characteristics" describes the characteristics of a movie track
"Media Characteristics" discusses the characteristics of a media
"Spatial Properties" describes how the Movie Toolbox displays a movie, including how the data from each media is collected and transformed prior to display
"The Transformation Matrix" describes how matrix operations transform visual elements prior to display
"Audio Properties" describes how the Movie Toolbox works with a movie's sound tracks
"Data Interchange" discusses how the format and content of a movie changes when it is stored on the scrap or in a file

Movie Characteristics

Track Characteristics

Media Characteristics

Spatial Properties

The Transformation Matrix

Audio Properties

Data Interchange

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