Combine movies with an AppleScript
After I bought a video iPod, I thought it would be the perfect place to show the short movies I take with my digital camera. (where else can you use them, really?) So I wrote an AppleScript to look through my folders of pictures and find all the movies files (defined by files that end in "avi") and combine them into one long movie. It makes for a fun way to recap the year in 10 - 20 second moments. You can download the script to try for yourself here.
To use the script follow these steps:
1. Find the first movie (listed alphabetically) in the folders you want to pull movies from and drag it out of that folder (otherwise it will get added twice).
2. Open that movie in Quicktime Pro
3. Drag the folder containing your movies (you do not need to sort them out, the script digs through all of your files) onto the Drop Add to Open Movie.app icon
4. Watch as the script builds your movie
5. When the script is done save the open movie file as a self contained movie.
A few notes:
-only adds movies of the same pixel size as the one open when started, it will not scale movies up or down
-requires Quicktime Pro
-errors on movies from some digital cameras (Casio specifically, Quicktime won't open them)
