Constructing a Timeline

This article describes how to construct a timeline in Microsoft® DirectShow® Editing Services (DES). It presents an example console application that creates a timeline and renders it. The timeline is minimal, consisting of a single video group with one source clip, but it demonstrates most of the concepts needed to create more complex timelines.

This article contains the following topics.

• Creating Timeline Objects
• Creating Groups, Compositions, and Tracks
• Setting the Group Media Type
• Adding a Source
• Creating a Timeline: Example Code