Applescript quicktime in the background

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Applescript quicktime in the background

I have an applecript that exports movies as they go into watch folders. I have quicktime not doing an activate so it mostly stays in the background but is there a way to minimize it or move it off the screen when I am doing this.

like open the movie
minimize
export

or

open the movie in a new window at 0,0 (bottom of the screen)
export

any thoughts would be great. I would love it if QT have a command line interface for doing exports

thanks

Posted on Nov 10, 2005 11:06 PM

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Answer 1

Cyclosaurus

Level 6

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Nov 11, 2005 1:46 AM in response to David Reaugh

You can turn off visible of a proceess:

tell application "System Events" to set visible of process "Quicktime Player" to false

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Answer 2

Tom_X

Level 5

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Nov 11, 2005 2:02 AM in response to David Reaugh

hi David - you could try this script too - hi Cyclosaurus 🙂

tell application "QuickTime Player"
open file ":System:Library:CoreServices:Setup Assistant.app:Contents:Resources:TransitionSection.bundle:Contents:Resources:in tro.mov"
if the (count of windows) is not 0 then
set miniaturized of every window whose visible is true to true
end if
end tell

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