QT Applescript. Bit OT (was Tiger problems...)

[Chris Carroll-Davis]

(Sorry folks, this is going off-topic, I think. But I'll post just in  
case someone has a suggestion!!)

> Could it be a licensing issue?  Does QT7 require a new Pro license  
> to script some features?

Richard - I don't think that is it.  They have definitely changed  
stuff.  I don't have things to hand at moment, but here's one thing I  
can remember off the top of my head that causes us real problems...

We are manipulating some large QT movies using Applescript/QTPlayer.   
e.g. taking an NTSC size movie with an alpha channel (very large  
because it requires the use of the "none" compressor) and adding a  
second movie behind it, then adding a sound track, cropping as  
necessary.  Now with Panther/QT6.5 we could then save this file "with  
dependencies" to make a movie that was literally just a few k in size  
(i.e. very quick to save) This was easy to do, because the default  
save option in QTPlayer was this form.

If we wanted to remove these dependencies we could save the movie  
with the AppleScript command "Save self contained". This takes a long  
time and produces very big files (>1Gb).  This has all changed.  The  
default option is now to save self contained, but there is no  
applescript option to "save with dependencies", so like it or not, we  
always end up with *massive* files that take ages to save!  (if any  
kind soul does have any suggestions on this one, I'd be soooooo  
grateful.  This is a bit of a killer for us.)

I'm pretty sure they have also changed the way in which QTPlayer  
applescript stores internal references to open movies (but I might be  
wrong here, memory going in old age)


Chris



On 6 May 2005, at 16:31, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Chris Carroll-Davis wrote:
>
>> We have a bunch of Applescripts that we fire from from SC that  
>> are  broken under Tiger.  These are all to control and manipulate  
>> movies  with QTPlayer. Apple actually seem to have changed the  
>> syntax for  scripting with QTPlayer.  Ughhh.  I suppose this is a  
>> QT7 issue  rather than Applescript per se, but still it goes to  
>> show that  nothing is safe...
>>
>
> Could it be a licensing issue?  Does QT7 require a new Pro license  
> to script some features?
>
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