scripting QuickTime player

[Timothy Miller]

It totally helped, Devin. Works great. Thanks a bunch. Tutorial appreciated.

I didn't check the timescale property immediately. I guessed maybe 30 frames per second. Hahaha. By trial and error the ideal value turned out to be 60000. Now I get it.

Tim


On Jul 6, 2011, at 9:04 PM, Devin Asay wrote:
> 
> Tim,
> 
> I've got an overview of how to script player objects here:
> 
> http://livecode.byu.edu/video/QTinRev.php
> 
> For what you want you could 
> 
>  set the playSelection of player "foo" to true
>  set the startTime of player "foo" to NNN -- where NNN is the starting "frame" number 
>  set the endTime of player "foo" to XXX -- where XXX is the ending "frame" number
>  start player "foo"
> 
> Check out the timeScale property for how to determine where to start and stop.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Devin
> 
> Devin Asay
> Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
> Brigham Young University