What's New in QuickTime 5

Adding Custom Media Skins with AppleScript

QuickTime 5 provides additional AppleScript support in the QuickTime Player application, which is discussed in the section "AppleScript Changes and Additions" . The QuickTime Player scripting dictionary, for example, contains new commands and properties that can be used to automate many movie-editing and playback tasks.

This section describes how you can create an AppleScript droplet with a custom media skin (the code for this droplet is already supplied). Droplets are special AppleScript applications that respond to files and folders dragged onto their icon. Each droplet has properties and parameters that can be set by double-clicking the droplet and clicking the "Set Prefs" button in the main dialog.

In this example, the droplet automates the process of creating a QuickTime movie with a media skin.

Refer to <http://www.apple.com/applescript/qtas5/qtas5p2.htm> for a collection of example scripts that are available in QuickTime 5.

What's New in QuickTime 5