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Quicktime Movie Recording


  • Subject: Quicktime Movie Recording
  • From: Philip Ershler <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 12:06:38 -0600

I have the following script.

tell application "QuickTime Player 7"
try
activate
new movie recording
start first recording


delay 10


stop first recording
close window 1 saving yes
end try
end tell

This works just fine. The movie gets recorded and placed in the folder specified  in the QuickTime Player 7 preferences. However I'd like to be able to change the name of the resulting movie to something more meaningful than "Movie 3.mov". Is there any way to do this without extending the script to find the latest movie recorded and ask the Finder to rename the file? I'm a bit spooked about not being able to specify the last movie recorded. If the new names get out of sync, I'm in real trouble because the name actually carries some metadata that is easily recognizable in a Finder listing.

Thanks, Phil

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