Re: Converting 50 .mov files to .mp3
Re: Converting 50 .mov files to .mp3
- Subject: Re: Converting 50 .mov files to .mp3
- From: "Simon Kornblith (Mailing Lists)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 13:16:19 -0400
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On 6/9/02 4:53 AM, "email@hidden" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Russ,
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first, you need to do the conversions. Do one or three
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manually to establish what has to happen for you to
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sucessfully convert the data; I'm imagining it means
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opening them in the QuickTime player, extracting the
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audio track (if it's shared with a video track) to a new
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file (preferably .mp3; otherwise .aiff if available).
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> From there, take the resulting file and move it into
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iTunes -- if it comes in as an .aiff, it should have the
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option to convert it over to mp3.
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Now, having established what needs to happen, you have
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to ask yourself if it would be faster to convert all of
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the tracks by hand (probably) or write a script to do it
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for you. If you want to go the script route, you are
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going to need a couple different sections:
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1. A part to generate the correct path information to
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select the appropriate file;
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2. The start of a repeat to go through each file with
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the following steps (and updates the file name);
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3. A tell message to whatever program you are extracting
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the data with (QT Player?) to get the data;
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4. A tell message to iTunes to import the result and to
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convert it;
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5. and finally, loop back to the second step (the
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repeat) to continue through the next file.
You're making this way more complicated than it really is. iTunes will
extract the audio from a .mov file and encode it automatically if it's told
to convert it. In fact, you could probably copy the .mov files all into one
folder, then use the "Convert MP3b&" menu option and select all the items in
that folder, which would encode them all relatively easily without using
AppleScript. You could no doubt script the same thing, and you'd be able to
eliminate steps 2 and 3 at least.
Simon
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