Re: Quicktime Movies
Re: Quicktime Movies
- Subject: Re: Quicktime Movies
- From: Brennan <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 17:09:16 +0200
Pier Kuipers <email@hidden> wrote
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I am looking for a way to use Applescript to extract thumbnail
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previews from Quicktime movies. Does anyone have any experience with
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this. I've looked at OSAXen such as Akua and GTQ, but they don't do
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it for me. One of the problems appears to be that these OSAXen
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manipulate a file's PICT resource, but a QT movie doesn't have one of
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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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