Technical Q&A QTMTB61

Creating track references when editing movies

Q: I'm using the InsertTrackSegment function to copy a track from one movie to another. However, I don't want to actually copy the track media data itself - I want to simply create a reference to the track media in the original movie. Is this possible?

A: If you explicitly do *not* bracket the InsertTrackSegment call with calls to BeginMediaEdits/EndMediaEdits, the track media data is not copied. Instead, a reference to the track media is made.

[Sep 05 2000]