Comments on: Automating QuickTime at the Command Line on Windows…

By: Lionel

Lionel — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:39:24 +0000

When i export, i can not save the codec info to an XML file because QTExporter.Settings is NULL, so i can not access QTExporter.Settings.XML.
Besides this, the export will work only if i open the dialog box, otherwise BeginExport() does nothing.
The code i have is similar to the one posted in the article:

// language: C#

// qt_control is the AxQTControl embedded in the Form
qt_control.URL = “D:\\source_file.mp4″;
QTQuickTime qt = qt_control.QuickTime;

if (qt.Exporters.Count == 0)
qt.Exporters.Add();

QTExporter qtexporter = qt.Exporters[1];
qtexporter.SetDataSource(qt_control.Movie);
qtexporter.TypeName = “QuickTime Movie”;
qtexporter.ShowProgressDialog = true;
qtexporter.DestinationFileName = “D:\\output.mov”;

// if i comment the following line the export won’t begin ( BeginExport() will do nothing )
qtexporter.ShowExportDialog();

qtexporter.BeginExport();

StreamWriter sw = File.CreateText(“exporter_settings.xml”);
// this will raise an exception because qtexporter.Settings is null
sw.Write(qtexporter.Settings.XML);
sw.Close();

What have i mistaken? I’ve compiled the program with VisualStudio 2010 on Windows XP, and i have QuickTime 7 installed but not the Pro version.
Maybe i need the Pro?
Any hint is appreciated

p.s.
i’ve even tried doing
qtexporter.ShowSettingsDialog();
but the dialog does not show!

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:10:48 +0000

Thats a great little solution and here I was about to write a small command line app. Nice work.

Cheers,
Dave

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:23:08 +0000

I am trying to add a track on a video using WSH script, and i get the track to be added, however, I want it to be in blend mode, but I can’t figure out how to do it. I have the QuickTime For .Net and COM Developers book, but the example he has does it using qtTransferModeStraightAlphaBlend, then sets an OperationsColor. This is not what I am looking for. What I need it to do is a 50% Blend (like if you go to the Visual Settings for a track and select Blend from the pulldown menu). Can anyone help me here?

By: Chip Chapin

Chip Chapin — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:18:49 +0000

I have now rewritten the script in Python and combined it with some other automation.

http://cchapin.blogspot.com/2010/02/seqtoqt-python-conversion-of-still.html

By: Chip Chapin

Chip Chapin — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 03:41:03 +0000

I’ve posted an adaptation of Luc-Eric’s script in my blog here http://cchapin.blogspot.com/2010/01/scripting-conversion-of-image-sequences.html

The changes are not great but there is somewhat more error handling (still problematic) and it works when called repeatedly from another script. The posting also includes a lot of references.

Thanks again for putting this up.

By: Anmol Mishra

Anmol Mishra — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:21:17 +0000

Anyone volunteer to make a script that will take n .mov files and cat them to a single .mov file :-)
There is mp4box that does this for mp4 files but nothing yet for files in a .mov container..

By: Chip Chapin

Chip Chapin — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:42:52 +0000

I was having trouble getting the script to work in most situations until I realized that I was using relative paths for the files. If it’s not working for you, be sure to fully specify the input and output, like “d:\bletch\foo\xxx_0001.jpg”, rather than cd’ing into d:\bletch\foo and specifying the input as “xxx_0001.jpg”. This solved the most perplexing issues.

By: Chip Chapin

Chip Chapin — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:54:58 +0000

Outstanding, thank you! I was searching for how to script QuickTime and came quickly to this post, only to find that you had already written precisely the script I needed to write: making a movie from an image sequence.

I suppose we’re all doing timelapse?

By: Jonas

Jonas — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:29:24 +0000

C:\Documents and Settings\jonasa>cscript jsQTtest.js “C:\Documents and Settings\
user\Desktop\Char-ANTHRO_04_v010_TEMP4c9a104c\playblastCam
00000.jpg”, “C:\Documents and Settings\user\Desktop\Char-ANTHRO_04_v010_TEMP4c9a104c_OUTPUT\Marston-ANTHRO_04_v010.mov”

Output: photoJPG

XML:

Date
Fri Oct 30 12:17:54 2009

Format
MooV
Name
QuickTime Movie
SettingsData
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AAAAAAAAAGUAAgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAFXJlY28AAAABAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHFsdHkAAAAB
AAAAAAAAAAAAAABAAAAAHHZlcnMAAAABAAAAAAAAAAAAAwAVAAEAAAAAABhzc2N0AAAA
AQAAAAAAAAAAc293dAAAABhzc3J0AAAAAQAAAAAAAAAArEQAAAAAABZzc3NzAAAAAQAA
AAAAAAAAABAAAAAWc3NjYwAAAAEAAAAAAAAAAAACAAAAHHZlcnMAAAABAAAAAAAAAAAA
AwAUAAEAAAAAABVlbnZpAAAAAQAAAAAAAAAAAQAAAD9zYXZlAAAAAQAAAAIAAAAAAAAA
FWZhc3QAAAABAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAFnNzdHkAAAABAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==

Type
Movie

Result: Script exits without doing anything

Also:

// Launch QuickTime Player Application
var qtPlayerApp = WScript.CreateObject(“QuickTimePlayerLib.QuickTimePlayerApp”);
WScript.Sleep(7000);
if (qtPlayerApp == null) {
WScript.Echo(“Unable to launch QuickTime Player!”);
WScript.Quit();
}

I don’t know if that is the correct syntax cause i’m not a js scripter.

Help?

By: Alexis D.

Alexis D. — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:48:36 +0000

Hi! Would you be so kind to show me how to set the dimension, audio codec an video codec of the output file using the QTExporter?