Re: [OT] Quicktime Movies
Re: [OT] Quicktime Movies
- Subject: Re: [OT] Quicktime Movies
- From: Pier Kuipers <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 23:31:30 +0100
Brennan,
Thank you for pointing me in the right direction - as it truns out,
QiPo appears to do exactly what I need, and even though it's not
scriptable, the watched folder feature will allow my web server to
generate QT previews automatically - I hope. As you can see, I'm
working on workflow automation, of which AS forms an integral part,
but sometimes I encounter problems like this one. Thanks for your
help,
Pier
At 17:09 +0200 14/05/02, Brennan wrote:
Pier Kuipers <email@hidden> wrote
I am looking for a way to use Applescript to extract thumbnail
previews from Quicktime movies. Does anyone have any experience with
this. I've looked at OSAXen such as Akua and GTQ, but they don't do
it for me. One of the problems appears to be that these OSAXen
manipulate a file's PICT resource, but a QT movie doesn't have one of
those...
What format do you want them in, and what do you want to do with
them when you've extracted them?
You'll probably have to use Quicktime Player, which will allow you
to (say) pull out a given frame and save it as a still. This simple
script will save the first frame as a pict file.
tell application "Quicktime Player"
tell movie 1
rewind
export to (new file) as picture
close saving no
end tell
end tell
You can also copy a still to the clipboard, so you can paste it into
some other application.
Note: There's an application called QiPo which (I think) will batch
generate previews for Quicktime movies.
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