Comments on: Automating QuickTime at the Command Line on Windows…

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:10:48 +0000

Thats a great little solution and here I was about to write a small command line app. Nice work.

Cheers,
Dave

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:23:08 +0000

I am trying to add a track on a video using WSH script, and i get the track to be added, however, I want it to be in blend mode, but I can’t figure out how to do it. I have the QuickTime For .Net and COM Developers book, but the example he has does it using qtTransferModeStraightAlphaBlend, then sets an OperationsColor. This is not what I am looking for. What I need it to do is a 50% Blend (like if you go to the Visual Settings for a track and select Blend from the pulldown menu). Can anyone help me here?

By: Chip Chapin

Chip Chapin — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:18:49 +0000

I have now rewritten the script in Python and combined it with some other automation.

http://cchapin.blogspot.com/2010/02/seqtoqt-python-conversion-of-still.html

By: Chip Chapin

Chip Chapin — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 03:41:03 +0000

I’ve posted an adaptation of Luc-Eric’s script in my blog here http://cchapin.blogspot.com/2010/01/scripting-conversion-of-image-sequences.html

The changes are not great but there is somewhat more error handling (still problematic) and it works when called repeatedly from another script. The posting also includes a lot of references.

Thanks again for putting this up.

By: Anmol Mishra

Anmol Mishra — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:21:17 +0000

Anyone volunteer to make a script that will take n .mov files and cat them to a single .mov file :-)
There is mp4box that does this for mp4 files but nothing yet for files in a .mov container..

By: Chip Chapin

Chip Chapin — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:42:52 +0000

I was having trouble getting the script to work in most situations until I realized that I was using relative paths for the files. If it’s not working for you, be sure to fully specify the input and output, like “d:\bletch\foo\xxx_0001.jpg”, rather than cd’ing into d:\bletch\foo and specifying the input as “xxx_0001.jpg”. This solved the most perplexing issues.

By: Chip Chapin

Chip Chapin — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:54:58 +0000

Outstanding, thank you! I was searching for how to script QuickTime and came quickly to this post, only to find that you had already written precisely the script I needed to write: making a movie from an image sequence.

I suppose we’re all doing timelapse?

By: Jonas

Jonas — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:29:24 +0000

C:\Documents and Settings\jonasa>cscript jsQTtest.js “C:\Documents and Settings\
user\Desktop\Char-ANTHRO_04_v010_TEMP4c9a104c\playblastCam
00000.jpg”, “C:\Documents and Settings\user\Desktop\Char-ANTHRO_04_v010_TEMP4c9a104c_OUTPUT\Marston-ANTHRO_04_v010.mov”

Output: photoJPG

XML:

Date
Fri Oct 30 12:17:54 2009

Format
MooV
Name
QuickTime Movie
SettingsData

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AQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAoaGFyZAAAAAEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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cgAAAAEAAAAAAAAAAGFwcGwAAAAUY2×1dAAAAAEAAAAAAAAAAAAAABRjZGVjAAAAAQAA
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GGloZ3QAAAABAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHB3ZHQAAAABAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHBo
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABxwYXNwAAAAAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY
c2NhbQAAAAEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAVZGludAAAAAEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAVdWVuZgAA
AAEAAAAAAAAAAAEAAAcoc291bgAAAAEAAAAGAAAAAAAABpxhdWRpAAAAAQAAAAYAAAAA
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Type
Movie

Result: Script exits without doing anything

Also:

// Launch QuickTime Player Application
var qtPlayerApp = WScript.CreateObject(“QuickTimePlayerLib.QuickTimePlayerApp”);
WScript.Sleep(7000);
if (qtPlayerApp == null) {
WScript.Echo(“Unable to launch QuickTime Player!”);
WScript.Quit();
}

I don’t know if that is the correct syntax cause i’m not a js scripter.

Help?

By: Alexis D.

Alexis D. — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:48:36 +0000

Hi! Would you be so kind to show me how to set the dimension, audio codec an video codec of the output file using the QTExporter?

By: Luc-Eric

Luc-Eric — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:42:36 +0000

Sorry Alexis D., the role of the XML file is explained in the article and you cannot use it to set codec attributes programmatically. These properties are part of the codec’s binary blob. As mentionned in the article, try Quicktime Mailing list to get help on programming topics.