QuickTime Reference Movie Question

I have a project where I need to do two things: 1) create a reference movie of a file that will be name file#####.mov (where the # will be some kind of number) and It needs to pick only the first file of a continuous sequence (ie. If a folder has a series of sequential files (with some breaks in the sequence), it would make a reference file for the first frame of each break. So, the folder has mm0001 through mm0100 and mm0200 through mm1300, the script should result in two reference movies: mm0001.mov and mm0200.mov).

Can anyone point me in the right direction because I’m not having much luck with the reference movie creation?

Thanks.

This script seemed to work in the limited testing I was able to do. Let me know if it works for you =)

set _sourceF to choose folder with prompt "Please Select Your Source Movie Folder"
set _targetF to (choose folder with prompt "Please Select Your Target Movie Folder") as string
set _prefix to text returned of (display dialog "Please enter the movie prefix" & return & "(example:  mm  in  mm0100.mov)" default answer "")
set _prefix to (count of _prefix) + 1

tell application "Finder"
	try
		set _movies to (every file of _sourceF whose name extension is "mov") as alias list
	on error
		set _movies to (every file of _sourceF whose name extension is "mov") as alias as list
	end try
	set _current to missing value
	repeat with a_movie in _movies
		set _name to text _prefix through -5 of ((name of a_movie) as string)
		if _current is equal to missing value or (_name as integer) > ((_current as integer) + 1) then
			set _current to _name
			my make_reference(a_movie, _current, _targetF)
		else
			set _current to _name
		end if
	end repeat
end tell

on make_reference(a_movie, _current, _targetF)
	tell application "QuickTime Player"
		open a_movie
		save front movie in (_targetF & "file" & _current & ".mov") as reference
		close front movie without saving
	end tell
end make_reference

Cheers!

That worked very well so far.

Awesome.

Good to hear TK!