About AppleScript and QuickTime Player
With QuickTime 4.1, you can use AppleScript to automate QuickTime Player.
For example, you can:
- open a movie and tell it to play for a specific duration
- automate the conversion of movies from one format to another using export
- automate hinting of movies for streaming
- play a movie from a URL
- script playback of movies with control over size, rate, volume, balance, and looping
- automate annotation of movies
- inventory movie contents (number of tracks, files used, annotations)
- adjust track playback properties such as start time, volume, and layer
QuickTime Player 4.1 is not a recordable application.