I’m having an issue getting “open image sequence” to work from applescript. I can change the script to “open file” and it works fine, but opening a sequence activates QuickTime, and that’s about it… this is what I’ve been working with - and suggestions?
set pictureFile to “Macintosh HD:path:to:file.tif”
tell application “QuickTime Player”
activate
open image sequence pictureFile frames per second 24
end tell
Ok, had my error pointed out to me, but now I’m running into another issue…
here is the script that does work:
set pictureFile to “Macintosh HD:path:to:file.tif”
tell application “QuickTime Player”
activate
open image sequence file pictureFile frames per second 24
end tell
My issue is that the images I’m trying to open are not on my local drive, they’re on an automounted NFS drive, so their path resembles something like:
set pictureFile to “private:Network:Servers:server:name:mount:directory:image001.tif”
We have symbolic links set up in our file systems also coming from the root of the local drive - i.e.:
set pictureFile to “Macintosh HD:symlink:server:name:mount:directory:image001.tif”
both open QuickTime, but neither even appear to attempt to open the files…
I’m guessing there’s something I don’t understand about invisible directories and applescript?
nasty work around, but it works - which is more than I could say before…
tell application “Finder”
activate
select “Macintosh HD:path:to:file:on:NFS:server:file0001.tif”
set this_item to the selection as alias
end tell
tell application “QuickTime Player”
activate
open image sequence this_item frames per second 24
end tell