This article describes the AppleScript support in QuickTime Player 4.1.

About AppleScript and QuickTime Player

With QuickTime 4.1, you can use AppleScript to automate QuickTime Player.

For example, you can:

• open a movie and tell it to play for a specific duration
• automate the conversion of movies from one format to another using export
• automate hinting of movies for streaming
• play a movie from a URL
• script playback of movies with control over size, rate, volume, balance, and looping
• automate annotation of movies
• inventory movie contents (number of tracks, files used, annotations)
• adjust track playback properties such as start time, volume, and layer