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quicktime duration changes
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quicktime duration changes

  • Subject: quicktime duration changes
  • From: Gary Franks <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 17:59:45 -0500
I am trying to repeat with a folder full of quicktime movies, change the duration of each movie to 5 seconds, and save the shortened movie to an output folder with the same file name as the original. My code gets the selection changed to 5 seconds, but the copy, paste, save and close fails. Can't figure out what I'm screwing up. Would very much appreciate a hand.
Current:

tell application "Finder"

set startupDisk to (get the name of the startup disk)
set userName to (do shell script "whoami")
set moviePath to startupDisk & ":Users:" & userName & ":desktop:temp_movies:"
set outputPath to startupDisk & ":Users:" & userName & ":desktop:output:"

repeat with i from 1 to (count files in folder moviePath)
open file i in folder moviePath

tell application "QuickTime Player"
try
tell document 1
select all
set new_duration to 5
set the selection end to (the selection start + (new_duration * time scale))
copy document 1
make new document
paste document 1
rewind document 1
select none of document 1
close saving in outputPath
end tell
end try
end tell
end repeat
end tell

The way I read the Quicktime Player dictionary, you can't just set the duration. Maybe this is a stupid approach and I don't mind being told so, if there is a better way. All I want is the first 5 seconds of a whole bunch of 3 to 5 minute movies.
Thanks
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