Hi,
Can I use AppleScript to create QuickTime reference movie for online files?
Let’s say that I will have a movie available at http://www.myserver.com/mymovie.mov
before the file is uploaded on the server, I want to create a QT reference movie to it (aka pointer movie). Unfortunately I did not find any example or documentation about it.
Thank you in advance for your insights.
Regards,
Guillaume
i’ve tried this but it doensn’t seem to work
on open these_items
tell application "Finder" to set destination to insertion location as string
try
tell application "QuickTime Player"
activate
stop every movie
close every movie saving no
repeat with this_item in these_items
open this_item
set {fName, fExt} to {name, name extension} of (info for this_item)
with timeout of 100000 seconds
copy destination & text 1 thru ((offset of fExt in fName) - 1) of fName & ".mov" to newfilename
save (a reference to file newfilename)
end timeout
close window 1
end repeat
quit
end tell
end try
end open
can anyone help ?
Hi,
I don’t think ‘a reference to’ is used to save a movie as a reference movie. I don’t remember what a reference movie was. Need to do some review.
gl,
I can’t find how to make a reference movie without the MakeRefMovie tool. Maybe you can script that with ui scripting, because I don’t think it’s scriptable.
gl,
Hi,
Another option is to create a SMIL movie. You use dynamic elements such as language and bitrate.
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/quicktime/Conceptual/QTScripting_SMIL/index.html
gl,
I just posted a script in “code exchange” that might help you with this. After rereading the topic I’m not sure this will help… but maybe!