Quicktime Batch Convert

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#1

Hey everyone…

 I am new to applescript, so be nice. :)  I need Quicktime to do a batch export of movies I make, and I'm having trouble figuring it out.  Essentially I will have about 15-25 separate movies that need to be compressed and saved with the same name as the original files.  I can get QT to export one movie, but apparently I still haven't grasped how to properly utilize the repeat command.  Additionally, I can't seem to tell quicktime to save the movie it's exporting with the original name.  I know if I work at it I'll figure it out at some point, but I was hoping some of you kind people might shed some light on how to get there quicker.   I have gotten this far:

tell application “Finder”
open folder “green two:to convert”
open every item of window 1

end tell

tell application “QuickTime Player”
set movierecords to count movies
copy name of movie 1 to newfilename
export movie 1 as QuickTime movie using settings file “green two:exportsettings:Export to 320x240” to file “green two:converted:newfilename”
close movie 1
repeat until movierecords < 1
end repeat
end tell

Help!

thanks, Mike

#2

Hi Simon

Try this:
Save as a application in script editor to open a bunch of files dropped on it

on open the_movie
	repeat with the_movie in the_movie
		tell application "QuickTime Player"
			open the_movie
		end tell
	end repeat
end open

Hope this partly helps

#3

You might be interested in these threads:

QuickTime Export Droplet
QuickTime Export
QuickTime Settings File Help
Export QuickTime movie to image sequence

#4

alatteri—looks cool… however it’s imperative that the conversion results in a quicktime movie, not just one in h.264 (hard to tell what yours can do). I already have ViddyUp! by splasm that does a pretty good job… only problem is they aren’t quicktime movies. Hence the applescript.

other guys— thanks i’ll see if that helps! :slight_smile:

#5

Update!

I wrote a script that works, unfortunately however, it only works on one mac (a G5). Why would it work on one mac and not another (and yes I changed the appropriate references in the script on the other computer). Any ideas?

tell application “QuickTime Player”

set settings_file to ("Corral:website stuff:movie settings:320x240h264export" as string)
display dialog "How many sweet cues?" default answer "" buttons {"OK"} default button "OK"
set total_movies to the text returned of result
repeat total_movies times
	try
		with timeout of 1800 seconds
			set movie_name to name of movie 1
			set target_path to (("Corral:website stuff:successful conversion:" & movie_name) as string)
			export movie 1 as QuickTime movie using settings file "corral:website stuff:movie settings:320x240h264export" to file target_path
			close movie 1
		end timeout
	end try
end repeat
display dialog "Your sweet cues have been converted." buttons {"OK"} default button "OK"
with timeout of 50000 seconds
end timeout
quit

end tell

#6

Do you have QuickTime Pro on both computers?

#7

both have quicktime pro
both have the same version of quicktime
both have the same operating system version

one thing i did notice is that on the G5 (where it works) there are two Quicktime Libraries for applescript, however on the G4 there is only one-- they seem to be identical though…

#8

if I simplify the script the following, I get the error (on the computer the original script won’t work on): “AppleScript Error-- Quicktime Player got an error: a file could not be found”… as though it can’t locate movie 1 (even though there is a movie open)

tell application “quicktime player”
set movie_name to name of movie 1
set target_path to ((“Cow barn 2:converted:” & movie_name) as string)
export movie 1 as QuickTime movie using most recent settings to file target_path
end tell