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Low-Level Movie-Editing Functions

The Movie Toolbox provides a number of functions that allow your application to perform low-level editing operations on movies. These functions work with movie segments (pieces of a movie that are defined by a starting time and duration) and therefore give you a great deal of control over the editing process. These functions never copy the movie data; rather, they work with references to the movie’s data. “Editing Movies” discusses the Movie Toolbox functions that allow you to edit movies by working with the current selection.

You can use the CopyMovieSettings function to copy certain important settings from one movie to another.

You can use the InsertMovieSegment function to copy a segment from one movie to another. Use the InsertMovieEmptySegment function to insert an empty segment into a movie.

Your application can delete a segment from a movie by calling the DeleteMovieSegment function.

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

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