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Save QuickTime 7 movies to disk
Authored by: Beaubeau on Aug 29, '06 12:11:22PM
This story is one year old but to li'l meeeee it seems still quite fresh and unresolved - until maybe today...

Here's what I came up with... Get this: I do not own a license for QuickTime PRO and I could save movies to my hard disk anyway... How did I rip that one off?! Lemme tell ya: (I read a lot about this problem on the web first and then threw all findings together. No big deal actually. Just mucho stamina...)

1) You write an AppleScript first. It will turn on the QuickTime PRO function "Export" in your eeny-weeny little QuickTime Player. For that you have to open the AppleScript-folder in your programs-folder.

Then you type the following line:

tell application "QuickTime Player" to export movie 1 as QuickTime movie to "[what you want it called]"

(Instead of "QuickTime movie", you can also put AIFF or AVI or many other formats. That you can find under ->window/library or simply by pressing shift+L and then look under "QuickTime Player" and the command "export".

Then you save the script.

2) After that you open the page with the embedded movie. My example is what they call "teaser" for the third "Spiderman". (Fay, ain't they?!) You better google it as I think there is a different URL for each new user.

3) Now, you need to get the URL of the movie which is quite a nut to crack, as we Germans say, these encrypted days.

No, it's not the activities window that Safari provides. My previous nut crackers have not taken into account that those cunning web wizards will not reveal the site of the .MOV file there nowadays. By pressing control+option+u you get to the source code of the page. Then you press control+f and enter ".MOV" to FIND the URL of the actual movie.

Afterwards you roll back your chair, go to the fridge and get yourself a cold beer, well, for example.

4) Then you finally get to your eeny-weeny flimsy little QuickTime Player to OPEN the URL of the actual movie. Please try

http://www.s1.hashmirror.com/ftp/pub/movies/puppet3.mov.

This movie is a trip!!! The actual URL for "Spiderman 3", by the way, is

http://movies.apple.com/movies/sony_pictures/spider-man_3/spider-man_3-tsr_h.640.mov.

Now comes the magic.

5) AFTER the movie has fully loaded, you unleash the above mentioned AppleScript (by running it...) and voilĂ : after about a thousand years (at least on my old fashioned 2003 Powerbook G4...) your movie has been saved not on your desktop, no that would be too obvious, but in the folder of your harddisk.

THAT'S ALL FOLKS!

(Cheeeech! What an ordeal!)

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