10.6: Use the pcastaction command to manipulate video files

Apr 01, '11 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: michelj

Snow Leopard only hintThe command pcastaction is a tool included in Snow Leopard to manipulate QuickTime and MPEG movies in a lot of ways: trim, append, extract soundtrack, watermark, and so forth.

The command is used by Podcast Capture to handle video to send to a MacOSX Server (Podcast Producer) but can also be used standalone. It is written in Ruby and uses Apple QTKit.

A few preliminary notes:

Here are a few examples usage of the command: For more options you can type in the Terminal:

pcastaction help (lists all subcommands)

[crarko adds: I haven't tested this one.]

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