Very Interesting -- I did not know that but it sounds like Quicktime made NLEs possible for ordinary people as opposed to the experts in the Film Industry. Some interesting articles quoted here but I only had time to skim a little.
http://basalgangster.macgui.com/RetroMacComputing/The_Long_View/Entries/2013/11/3_Warhol.html > > scroll down to Quicktime Does it All (but you can read whole thing if you > like) > > --------- > > Quicktime was basically a complete library for creating video editing > programs. It included standard code for selecting a video digitizer, > copying and pasting movies, even setting a selection in a movie > (effectively setting in and out points for an edit), and cutting or copying > only that selection. It included built-in support for superimposing styled > text on movies, and even for scrolling text to make titles and credits. All > that made it much bigger than other Apple APIs at the time. In fact it was > not one API, but rather a collection of them. > ... So, basically it explains existence of controls you can see for example in > ffmpeg-4.2/libavformat/mov.c : > I imagine that Adam implemented this and more in the original Cinelerra Quicktime decoder/encoder.
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