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Movie internals are the components and programming interfaces used in advanced work with QuickTime movies. Developers can, for example, edit QuickTime movies at the track level, modify spatial and temporal track characteristics, create movie previews, and work with access keys and clock components.

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Choosing the Position Where a Movie is Pasted (HTML)
QTMTB26: Explains how the position of a pasted movie is determined and shows how to force a given location.
Technical Q&As 1995-05-01
Creating track references when editing movies (HTML)
QTMTB61: Explains how to use the InsertTrackSegment function to copy a track reference rather than the actual media.
Technical Q&As 2000-09-05
Linked Movies with Different Color Palettes (HTML) (日本語 HTML)
QTMRF07: Explains why a QuickTime movie shouldn't contain subMovies that have different color palettes.
Technical Q&As 1996-02-15
MakeiPhoneRefMovie (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates how to generate QuickTime Reference Movies for iPhone.
Sample Code 2007-08-03
MCSetClip and Clipping with the Movie Controller (HTML)
QTMTB18: Tells why the movie controller ignores the clip set by SetMovieDisplayClipRgn and shows a correct clipping technique.
Technical Q&As 1995-05-01
MovieVideoChart (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates direct access to video samples in movie files, using B-frame-aware APIs in QuickTime 7.
Sample Code 2006-07-11
QT Internals (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Dumps information about movie structures.
Sample Code 2003-01-14
qtfullscreen (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Defines functions that illustrate how to play QuickTime movies full screen.
Sample Code 2003-01-14
qtinfo (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to create movie previews, movie posters, and file previews.
Sample Code 2003-01-14
qtinfo.win (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to create movie previews, posters, and file previews.
Sample Code 2003-01-14
QTMetadataEditor (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates QuickTime 7 APIs in a Metadata Browsing and Editing application
Sample Code 2008-05-09
qtskins (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to programmatically create and play back a movie with a skin track.
Sample Code 2003-01-14
qtskins.win (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to programmatically create and play back a movie with a skin track.
Sample Code 2003-01-14
qtsndtween (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Modify a QuickTime movie's sound track by increasing (or decreasing) the volume as it plays.
Sample Code 2003-01-14
qtsndtween.win (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Modify a QuickTime movie's sound track by increasing (or decreasing) the volume as it plays.
Sample Code 2003-01-14
qttimecode.win (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to use the timecode media handler.
Sample Code 2003-01-14
qtvectors (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to construct a QuickTime vector movie.
Sample Code 2003-01-14
qtvectors.win (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Constructs a series of QTAtoms that describe a vector picture and saves them to a movie.
Sample Code 2003-01-14
QuickTime Movie Internals Guide (HTML) (PDF)
Describes technologies inside QuickTime movies, including time management, modifier tracks, access keys, posters, and movie and file previews.
Guides 2006-01-10
QuickTime Movie Properties Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Describes the API for managing QuickTime movie properties.
Reference 2006-05-23
Setting a Movie's Clipping Region (HTML)
QTMTB23: Explains why ShowMoviePoster doesn't honor the clipping region when clipped to the cell size.
Technical Q&As 1995-05-01
simpleeditsdi.win (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates how to display and edit QuickTime movies using the SDI (single document interface).
Sample Code 2003-01-14
Specifying Chunk Sizes (HTML)
QTPC08: Discusses the meaning of a QuickTime movie atom's chunk value.
Technical Q&As 1995-08-01
Stepping Through QuickTime-Movie (HTML)
QTMTB28: Describes how to get the first frame of a movie using GetMovieNextInterestingTime.
Technical Q&As 1995-05-01