Script for reversing a movie with Quicktime needed

Hello,

i wonder if someone would be able to help me with this problem.
I need to reverse a video (turn a zoom in into a zoom out) with applescript. Quicktime has a option for playing a video backwards but i want the result to be playable on players other than Quicktime.

So here is what i did.

I wrote a script to export a series of videos into image sequences.
Now i want to reverse the numbering of these image sequences, so if i
use quicktime for encoding a image sequence to a movie the movie would be
reversed.

i managed to get the image sequence and to get Quicktime encode the image sequence as movie.
The part i am struggling with is reversing the image sequence file numbering, so Quicktime would
read the image sequence backwards.

If anyone has a smarter solution for this problem please do share ^^

This might be a greenhorn question, but i am new to apple script so bare with me :smiley:
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks in advance!

Best regards,

zhengtonic

there is an applescript out there (in the wilds) that will just copy each frame of the original clip, and then paste them into the reverse order in a new document. Its pretty effective and avoids the step of creating loads of image files. you can find it here:
http://harvey.nu/applescript_quicktime_pro_reverse_video.html

alternately a good solution for file renaming is http://www.publicspace.net/ABetterFinderRename/