Container for QT movies

QuickTime, to the best of my knowledge, cannot play back a sequence of videos or folders. But if you search MacUpdate for something like "video player" or perhaps "video playlist", you may find another application that can. You could also probably write an AppleScript and/or Automator workflow to handle this; this latter is more probably what you'd need to do if you need to have the videos in separate folders.

Alternatively, you could import your videos into iTunes and set up a playlist for the videos, and loop that playlist. Though you'd have to add the new videos to iTunes each week, it would make it easier perhaps to get the playlist in the order you want since you wouldn't have to rename them or figure out how to get a player to read sequential folder to get the videos in order as you would with a player that just played videos or folders of videos in order.

Hope this helps.

Hi,

Have you tried creating a reference movie containing all movies one after another, with the "loop" setting activated?
To minimize waiting time between movies, the best is to load the movies in RAM (given you have enough RAM).
The problem is that this option is rarely exposed. It is available in programming APIs, but I don't know any application that lets you load a movie in RAM.

Back in the day I used to make a ram disc to capture video and playback of videos.

Espérance DV is a system control panel for making a ram disc:

http://www.mparrot.net/

If this doesn't work for your OS. There are Terminal commands for making a ram disc, Google it.

Hi Zvordauk!

You could easily accomplish your goal in LiveStage Professional... but since you are writing here with this question I will assume you don't have this program (LiveStage's parent company, TotallyHip, went down the tubes a few years ago).

Which leaves us with an HTML solution (you could use the browser to launch the QuickTime Player instead of playing on a web page). You begin with the default movie and then a list of movies plays as defined by the code structure.

The following is the code frame work:
QTNEXTn="<Filename> T<Target>" or GOTOn

QTNEXT is the command.
n is an index number for your movie.
Filename is the name/pathway for your movie. If you put all your movies into one folder it would make the naming scheme easier.
Target should be "myself" which replaces the current running movie with the next one on the list (as opposed to opening in a new window or the QT Player).

An example here: http://www.wdd3.info/Xper/Multi-Loader.html

Below shows the style of the code I used in an HTML Snippet in iWeb for the above example:
======
<embed src="First.mov" height="496" width="640"
QTNEXT1="<Second.mov> T<myself>"
QTNEXT2="<Third.mov> T<myself>"
QTNEXT3=GOTO0 >

Note the last line of code... instead of a movie file reference there is a GOTO command, in this case "0" (zero) - which plays the opening default movie (index of 0) again and creates an infinite loop - or it could be any movie (number) in the index - or have a third movie play instead, etc. 255 files is the limit that can be sequenced.

Of course you would want to wrap the above code in an object tag so Windows users could view it.