Basic Types Structures

These types and structures are defined in PrSDKTypes.h and PrSDKStructs.h, and are used throughout the Premiere API.

Premiere defines cross-platform types for convenience when developing plugins for both Windows and MacOS.

Name	Description
prColor	An unsigned 32-bit integer that stores an RGB color. This type is useful for the 8-bpc colors retrieved by the color picker in a video effect or transition. Color channels are stored as BGRA, in order of increasing memory address from left to right.
prWnd	A Windows HWND or MacOS NSView*
prParentWnd	A Windows HWND or MacOS NSWindow*
prOffscreen	A Windows HDC
prRect	A Windows RECT or MacOS Rect.
	Use the utility function prSetRect to set the dimensions of a prRect struct.
	This should be used because MacOS Rect members have a different ordering than Windows RECT members.
prFloatRect	typedef struct { float left; float top; float right; float bottom;} prFloatRect;
prRgn	A Windows HRGN
prPoint, LongPoint	LongPoint is deprecated, but still used for a couple of Bottleneck callbacks.
prFPoint	typedef struct { double x; double y;} prFPoint64;
prPixel	(Deprecated)
prPixelAspectRatio	(Deprecated)
PPix, *PPixPtr, **PPixHand	Holds a video frame or field, and contains related attributes such as pixel aspect ratio and pixel format. Manipulate PPixs using the PPix Suite, never directly.
TDB_TimeRecord	A time database record representing a time value in the context of a video frame rate.
	typedef struct { TDB_Time value; TDB_TimeScale scale; TDB_SampSize sampleSize;} TDB_TimeRecord;
prBool	Can be either kPrTrue or kPrFalse
PrMemoryPtr, *PrMemoryHandle	A char*
PrTimelineID, PrClipID	A 32-bit signed integer.
prUTF8Char	An 8-bit unsigned integer.
PrSDKString	An opaque data type that should be accessed using the new String Suite.
PrParam	Used for exporter parameters.
prDateStamp	Used in by importers in imFileAttributesRec.creationDateStamp.