Script a QuickTime Player Movie Recording
Script a QuickTime Player Movie Recording
- Subject: Script a QuickTime Player Movie Recording
- From: Andrew Ontko <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 20:08:55 -0600
Greetings Scripting Friends,
I'm trying make a script that will launch at a specific time (will
use iCal for that) which will then open a QuickTime movie window and
start a recording using my iSight camera. I seem to remember a
recent post on the subject but haven't been able to locate it.
I can get as far as opening the "New Recording" window using
Scripting Events but can't seem to find a way to get the recording
started. I've tried "Start Recording" then inserting a delay then
issuing a "Stop Recording" command. This results in no error but
nothing happens.
tell application "QuickTime Player" to activate
tell application "System Events"
tell menu item "New Movie Recording" of menu "File" of menu bar 1 of
application process "QuickTime Player" to click -- opens a recording
window
end tell
tell application "QuickTime Player" to activate
tell window 1 of application "QuickTime Player" to start recording --
does nothing
delay 10 --10 seconds pass
tell window 1 of application "QuickTime Player" to stop recording --
does nothing
I've tried to test the open window's "State" (previewing/recording/
paused,r/o) by using "get" but that generates the error: "Can't make
state of window 1 into type reference."
To get the window's properties yields this:
{zoomed:true, miniaturized:false, name:"Movie Recording",
floating:false, modal:false, document:document "Movie Recording" of
application "QuickTime Player", miniaturizable:true, class:window,
visible:true, closeable:true, resizable:false, zoomable:false, id:
30270, bounds:{642, 287, 992, 635}, titled:true, index:1}
Any thoughts on how to get the recording started & stopped are welcome.
Regards,
Andrew Ontko
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