Comments on: Concatenate Quicktime Movies

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:22:22 +0000

"“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 movies

set openedMovies to count documents

seems 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.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:08:30 +0000

This looks great. I continually get this error: Any ideas?

"The variable |movies| is not defined. (-2753)"

By: AdÃ©lard

AdÃ©lard — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 03:43:39 +0000

Ooops! Sorry! I guess I’ll have to try to make a script that converts all my movies to .mov!

By: AdÃ©lard

AdÃ©lard — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 03:32:36 +0000

NSReceuiverEvaluationScriptError: 4 (1) ?

It was my first time using Automator and I got this error. What goes?

By: GÃ¡bor

GÃ¡bor — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 07:29:59 +0000

Thanks, Michael!

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 10:29:17 +0000

To concatenate a set of .mpg files, I simply removed the step that filters out all but .mov files.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 10:26:56 +0000

Hint: Turn off the “Automatically play movies when opened” QuickTime Player preference before running the script. If you don’t, the clips in the resulting movie will probably be in reverse order.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 15:52:40 +0000

Try tacking on this action at the end of it: http://www.automatorworld.com/archives/compress-quicktime-to-mpeg-4/