movie recording for 10 minutes in quicktime pro

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
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#1

is it possible to open quicktime pro, start movie recording stopping after 10 minutes and saving the file ?

#2

Hi,

I can’t test it, because I currently don’t have any camera, but thy this


set TimeStamp to do shell script "/bin/date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S"
set destinationPath to ((path to desktop as text) & TimeStamp & ".mov")
tell application "QuickTime Player"
	new movie recording
	delay 600
	save self contained document 1 in destinationPath
	close document 1
end tell
#3

thanks, it seems that it lunches correctly but it doesn’t start recording and after the 10 minutes an error message appeared “document 1 doesn’t understand the save self contained message”

#4

then try this


set TimeStamp to do shell script "/bin/date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S"
set destinationPath to ((path to desktop as text) & TimeStamp & ".mov")
tell application "QuickTime Player"
	new movie recording
	start first recording
	delay 600
	stop first recording
	stop every document
	close document 1 saving in destinationPath
end tell
#5

it worked perfectly thanks !!!

#6

it saves two movies on the desktop one named Movie.mov and one with the date name. is it possible just to save the one with the date ?

#7

As I can’t test anything, I just recommend to add this line at the end, this deletes the Movie.mov file


do shell script "/bin/rm -rf " & quoted form of (POSIX path of (path to desktop) & "Movie.mov")
#8

it worked perfectly!!! thanks !!!

#9

since I would be recording back to back for one hour (10 minutes increments) is there a way to give the name to the file like 20081103.a then 20081103.b then 20081103.c then 20081103.d then 20081103.e etc.