---
title: "Edit list atom ('elst')"
framework: quicktime-file-format
role: symbol
role_heading: Atom
path: quicktime-file-format/edit_list_atom
---

# Edit list atom ('elst')

An atom that maps from a time in a movie to a time in a media, and ultimately to media data.

## Mentioned in

Representing encoder delay explicitly Historical solution for implicit encoder delay

## Overview

Overview You use the edit list atom to map from a time in a movie to a time in a media, and ultimately to media data. This information is in the form of entries in an edit list table. Edit list atoms have an atom type value of 'elst'.

## Topics

### Data fields

- [Size](quicktime-file-format/edit_list_atom/size.md)
- [Type](quicktime-file-format/edit_list_atom/type.md)
- [Version](quicktime-file-format/edit_list_atom/version.md)
- [Flags](quicktime-file-format/edit_list_atom/flags.md)
- [Number of entries](quicktime-file-format/edit_list_atom/number_of_entries.md)
- [Edit list table](quicktime-file-format/edit_list_atom/edit_list_table.md)

## See Also

### Describing tracks

- [Track atom ('trak')](quicktime-file-format/track_atom.md)
- [Track header atom ('tkhd')](quicktime-file-format/track_header_atom.md)
- [Track exclude from autoselection atom ('txas')](quicktime-file-format/track_exclude_from_autoselection_atom.md)
- [Track aperture mode dimension atoms](quicktime-file-format/track_aperture_mode_dimension_atoms.md)
- [Clipping atom ('clip')](quicktime-file-format/clipping_atom.md)
- [Clipping region atom ('crgn')](quicktime-file-format/clipping_region_atom.md)
- [Track matte atom ('matt')](quicktime-file-format/track_matte_atom.md)
- [Compressed matte atom ('kmat')](quicktime-file-format/compressed_matte_atom.md)
- [Edit atom ('edts')](quicktime-file-format/edit_atom.md)
- [Playing with edit lists](quicktime-file-format/playing_with_edit_lists.md)
- [Track load settings atom ('load')](quicktime-file-format/track_load_settings_atom.md)
- [Track reference atoms](quicktime-file-format/track_reference_atoms.md)
- [Track input map atoms](quicktime-file-format/track_input_map_atoms.md)