QT Automator Action

Maybe you'd better ask on [Discussions > Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard > Automator|http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1261].

I believe that you need Quicktime Pro to run QT AppleScript's. Do you have Pro?

Here is an applescript solution that may help you. I messed around with this one before. This will work on snow leopard, I am not sure about leopard.

tell application "QuickTime Player"
 activate
 new movie recording
end tell
tell application "System Events" to keystroke "f" using {command down}
tell application "System Events" to key code 49

This will launch quicktime player, hit the command and 'f' key at the same time and then the space bar to start the recording. The user will be left to figure it out from there.

You will just need to copy and paste the code into script editor and then save it as an 'application or application bundle'. Be sure that 'run only' or start up screen' boxes are NOT checked when saving it.

Hope it helps.

Right, but are you running QT Pro??

I am not running QT Pro. Just the standard QT that installs with Snow Leopard. This may or may not work on Leopard. My only suspicion is that the command 'f' line will not work on the regular QT in Leopard. I believe the rest of it should work just fine.