Road Map to QuickTime 3

Movie Toolbox: Editing

This chapter describes the functions of the Movie Toolbox that your application can use to edit movies and tracks. You will need to read this chapter if your application provides editing functions beyond those that are built into the movie controller.

Editing Movies

Inside Macintosh describes the high level functions your application can use to edit movies. QuickTime 3 Reference describes a new flag, showUserSettingsDialog , that can be passed to the function PasteHandleIntoMovie .

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Undo for Movies

Inside Macintosh describes three functions your application can use to add an undo function to movie editing, allowing you to create a snapshot of the movie's edit state and restore an earlier version of the edit state.

Low Level Movie-Editing Functions

Inside Macintosh describes four low level functions your application can use to edit movies using movie segments (a segment is defined by a start time and a duration). Included is a function that copies multiple settings from one movie to another.

Editing Tracks

Inside Macintosh describes the low level functions your application can use to edit tracks using track segments (a segment is defined by a start time and a duration). QuickTime 3 Reference adds a new function to the list.

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Undo for Tracks

Inside Macintosh describes three functions your application can use to add an undo function to track editing, allowing you to create a snapshot of the track's edit state and restore an earlier version of the edit state.

Locating a Movie's Tracks and Media Structures

Inside Macintosh describes the functions that your application can use to locate a movie's track and media structures. Functions are provided to determine the track count, a track's index number, identifier, and ID value. Also provided are functions to find the movie that contains a track, the track that contains a media, and the media containing a track's samples. QuickTime 3 Reference adds a new function to this list.

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