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Concatenate Quicktime Movies
Function: Joins together the selected .mov files with QuickTime Pro 7; it closes any opened QuickTime Movies, asks for the files you want to concatenate (put together), opens them in QuickTime, concatenates them (in alphabetical order) and asks you to save the result movie file.
Author: Gábor Balázs Székely
Notes: You can try the functionality with the included example files. This script was made for personal use. You can modify it as you wish, it shows just a possible way to automatically put together QuickTime Movie files with QuickTime Pro.
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watching the process is one of those Mac ‘Wow!’ moments. THANKS.
Comment by Michael — August 21, 2009 @ 9:20 am
Many thanks for this!
Comment by phase — February 27, 2009 @ 8:44 pm
Thank for this automator script.
I downloaded it, I made the change (movies to documents), and works fine. For beginners to Automator, just click on the “QuickTime Pro Concatenate Movies” file, it opens Automator, click on the PLay button on the top right hand corner.. and go.
Note that the (movies => documents) change must also been done at the step #2 (Quicktime opening), and at the step #7 (5th line).
As for me, the last problem is that : each time you add a new file, the popup finder window BEGINS at Desktop… How can it start in the same folder I just used before ?
Thanks for any clue.
Comment by Frenchie — January 25, 2009 @ 6:04 am
““The variable |movies| is not defined. (-2753)””
This is actually pretty simple to fix, but it took me a bit to track it down — basically, movies looks like it used to be an applescript object (probably an array) that contained currently open movies, so it was basically copying the contents of that into another variable.
There’s now a variable in Leopard Automator Movies which contains the path to the current user’s Movies subdirectory, which may be why it was deprecated.
Anyway, changing the line
set openedMovies to count moviesto
set openedMovies to count documentsseems to have fixed it for me. I also removed the step that filters out all files except .mov, since I figure I’ll generally know not to open word documents with this, and I might need to concatenate non-.mov video files.
Comment by Peter — February 16, 2008 @ 2:22 pm
This looks great. I continually get this error: Any ideas?
“The variable |movies| is not defined. (-2753)”
Comment by Paul — January 29, 2008 @ 4:08 am