Saving a Quicktime Movie

[KniazidisR]

@bogdanw

Once a recording is stopped, the mov file can be copied from ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX/Data/Library/Autosave Information/
For a screen recording I used

cp ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX/Data/Library/Autosave\ Information/Unsaved\ QuickTime\ Player\ Document.qtpxcomposition/Screen\ Recording.mov ~/Desktop/Movie.mov

This is OK information somewhere. But the following code gives you saved Audio/Video/ScreenRecord Composition, ready to play as is too:

set thePackagePath to POSIX path of (path to desktop) & "SomeMedia.qtpxcomposition"

tell application "QuickTime Player"
	activate
	stop document 1 -- to stop capture
	delay 2
	set thePackageFile to (thePackagePath as POSIX file)
	save document 1 in thePackageFile
	quit
end tell

And, I believe, that is Apple approach too.

[bogdanw]

@KniazidisR

This is OK information somewhere.

It’s very good information when QuickTime crashes