My long range goal is to make an Automator Workflow that looks into a folder, finds all the movies (.avi etc.), saves a .jpg of the middle frame. This all might be rolled into a larger Workflow that downloads photos from a digital camera and loads the photos and middle frame of the movies into Aperture.
I thought I’d start with existing QuickTime Scripts from Apple.
If I run the “Select from Beginning” script I get as a log:
tell application "QuickTime Player"
activate
exists movie 1
false
beep
display dialog "No movies are open." buttons {"Cancel"} default button 1
"QuickTime Player got an error: User canceled."
The beginning of the script is:
tell application "QuickTime Player"
activate
try
if not (exists movie 1) then error "No movies are open."
I have a .mov open, so don’t understand the error. Doesn’t matter if I run from the script menu or Script Editor.
Thanks for any ideas. Any other places to look for QuickTime help? I do have some resources at home which I’ll be able to access next week and that may help.
I have QuickTime Pro.