It all depends on how much you want to customize your workflow, and how much time it might take.
Also look into Apple-scriptablity of the app you might purchase. You could use REV for a front end for that. On 29 April 2010 07:14, Mark Swindell <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Bernd, > > I'm actually looking for the capacity to take sections of sports video and > break down specific techniques into a series of stills for on-paper > analysis. Your post illuminates the complexity of "dashing off" a method of > doing so ("plodding along" would be more like it for me). While the > exercise would surely teach me a lot, in this case I'd much rather pay > $25.00-50.00 for a fully functioning shareware or commercial program than > invest hours and hours perfecting something that will still be imperfect and > up to myself to maintain over time. > > For anyone else who might be interested, the following looks very > promising, and for a very reasonable price tag of $26.00. Unfortunately, > Stuffit Expander won't unpack it correctly so I can't try it just yet. > Waiting to hear back from Tech Support. > > http://www.xilisoft.com/video-snapshot-mac.html > > Thank you, though, for your scripts and insight into a solution. > > Because of people like you and the other responders, this list just can't > be beat. > > Mark > > > > On Apr 28, 2010, at 12:23 PM, BNig wrote: > > > > > Mark, > > is this one off or do you want to write a stack that does this > repeatedly? > > Is it ok to use apple script, i.e. Mac only? What system version do you > use? > > Do you have Quicktime Pro? > > this is a little applescript that assumes your quicktime movie does only > > have one track and that is the movie. It makes a selection in that movie > and > > copies the selection to a new document. Than it deletes all the frames > > except every fifth. If you have Quicktime Pro you can export these frames > as > > image sequence manually. If you don't have Quicktime Pro I can see if I > can > > provide you with a preset file for exporting the images. You dont need > the > > Pro license to script and export from Quicktime Player. > > Of course you can do all this from within Rev and take the selection of > the > > movie you manually make and send it as applescript to the Quicktime > Player, > > which opens the movie, selects what you have selected in Rev and does the > > export. It is just a little more scripting. > > If you want to go Jaque's way of exporting snapshots you have to make > > assumptions about the framerate. Rev only gives you the duration and the > > timescale. Usually quicktime movies have a timescale of 600, but not > > necessarily so. At a timescale of 600 a duration of 1200 is 2 seconds > worth > > of movie. At a framerate of 25 that would be 50 frames. A single frame > would > > have the duration of 24. At a framerate of 30/sec the duration of an > > individual frame would be 20. So assume you have a framerate of 30 you > would > > advance your currenttime by 30 to go to the next frame, or by 150 to > advance > > by 5 frames. > > here is the applescript > > ------------------------------ > > set tStart to 866 > > set tEnd to 1081 > > > > tell application "QuickTime Player" > > set tName to name of document 1 > > tell document tName > > set the selection start to tStart > > set the selection end to tEnd > > copy > > end tell > > set tSelectionDocName to "mySelection" > > make new document > > paste document 1 > > set tSelectionDocName to name of document 1 > > set tNoOfFrames to the number of frames of track 1 of document > > tSelectionDocName > > repeat > > if tNoOfFrames = 0 then exit repeat > > if tNoOfFrames mod 5 ≠ 0 then delete frame tNoOfFrames of > track 1 of > > document tSelectionDocName > > set tNoOfFrames to tNoOfFrames - 1 > > end repeat > > end tell > > ---------------------------- > > it also assumes that the movie you are interested in is the frontmost in > > Quicktime Player. > > regards > > Bernd > > -- > > View this message in context: > http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/OT-Exporting-movie-clip-to-stills-tp2069329p2073838.html > > Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > > use-revolution mailing list > > [email protected] > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > -- ------------------------- Stephen Barncard Back home in SF _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
