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Download all Aperture Quick Tour movies at once Apps
Apple's Quick Tour videos for Aperture have been updated to reflect the new 1.5 version. You can download all the movies in one go by following these steps:
  1. Open the Downloads window in Safari
  2. Highlight the text below
  3. Drag and drop it onto the Downloads window
  4. Have a large cup of coffee. The movies are pretty big.
The movie list can be found after the break...

Here they are; just drag-and-drop to the Downloads window and you're done:

http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple/aperture/00-apple-aperture-essentials-tour_720x416_20060925.mov
http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple/aperture/01-apple-aperture-acquisition_720x416_20060925.mov
http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple/aperture/02-apple-aperture-interface_720x416_20060925.mov
http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple/aperture/03-apple-aperture-projects_720x416_20060925.mov
http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple/aperture/04-apple-aperture-browsing_720x416_20060925.mov
http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple/aperture/05-apple-aperture-viewing_720x416_20060925.mov
http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple/aperture/06-apple-aperture-ratings_720x416_20060925.mov
http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple/aperture/07-apple-aperture-keywords_720x416_20060925.mov
http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple/aperture/08-apple-aperture-liftstamp_720x416_20060925.mov
http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple/aperture/09-apple-aperture-metadata_720x416_20060925.mov
http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple/aperture/10-apple-aperture-search_720x416_20060925.mov
http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple/aperture/11-apple-aperture-adjustments_720x416_20060925.mov
http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple/aperture/12-apple-aperture-lighttable_720x416_20060925.mov
http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple/aperture/13-apple-aperture-laptop_720x416_20060925.mov
http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple/aperture/14-apple-aperture-books_720x416_20060925.mov
http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple/aperture/15-apple-aperture-slideshow_720x416_20060925.mov
http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple/aperture/16-apple-aperture-output_720x416_20060925.mov
http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple/aperture/17-apple-aperture-fullscreen_720x416_20060925.mov
http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple/aperture/18-apple-aperture-archiving_720x416_20060925.mov
http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple/aperture/19-apple-aperture-web_720x416_20060925.mov

I have a bunch of additional Aperture info on my blog.

[robg adds: I intentionally didn't make these clickable links, as the drag-and-drop trick only works with selections of plain text, not links. The 20 movies total just over 625MB, so you'll either want a very fast connection, or a huge cup of coffee, to download all these!]
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Download all Aperture Quick Tour movies at once
Authored by: krasi on Oct 04, '06 12:16:37PM

great hint. I followed those steps and it worked perfectly. i was wondering though if you can do that for other movies also. Like how did you find the URL for the movies. I would like to be able to download the final cut express HD quick tours also. if you could explain how you got the URL it would be appreciated. Thanks



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Download all Aperture Quick Tour movies at once
Authored by: pepi on Oct 05, '06 01:20:15AM
Ok, so I have to refine my one-liner :-)

For all the Aperture Movies listed here (at the moment) use this one:
curl -s 'http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060926074757255' | grep -e "\.mov" | grep -e "aperture" | sed -e 's/^.*http:\/\//http:\/\//g' -e 's/\.mov.*/\.mov/g' | uniq | while read url; do curl -LO -# -C - "{$url}" ; done

For all the Final Cut Express Movies only use this command:
curl -s 'http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060926074757255' | grep -e "\.mov" | grep -e "final_cut_express" | sed -e 's/^.*http:\/\//http:\/\//g' -e 's/\.mov.*/\.mov/g' | uniq | while read url; do curl -LO -# -C - "{$url}" ; done


To get them all, use the line in my upper posting here. You can use that first one-liner to get all the QuickTime Movies linked or listed with their URL on a webpage. Just replace the URL string between the single quotes in the curl command. It will do the filtering itself, unless there are more than one references on a single line.

Maybe someone with a few minutes to spare could add that by piping through sed and adding a carriage return after each and every occurrence of .mov before stripping the unwanted stuff. :-)
Best regards
Pepi

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Download all Aperture Quick Tour movies at once, from the command line
Authored by: pepi on Oct 04, '06 06:11:53PM
You can fetch all of the movies listed here to your $PWD with the following command pipe:

curl -s 'http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060926074757255' | grep -e "\.mov" | sed -e 's/^.*http:\/\//http:\/\//g' -e 's/\.mov.*/\.mov/g' | uniq | while read url; do curl -LO -# -C - "{$url}" ; done

You may want to create a new folder to contain the movies and cd into it, before running this pipe. This will autoresume the download if you run it againin case you need to interrupt the command.
Regards Pepi

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Download all Aperture Quick Tour movies at once, from the command line
Authored by: Ag3ntS on Oct 05, '06 03:50:29PM

This is much more automated than doing a drag-and-drop, which, incidentally, is quite difficult to do with text in Safari for some unknown reason. I was just going to do cmd+c and cmd+v to the downloads window, but if theres some terminal lovin' to be had, I'll go for that.



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