On a whim I tried the 0.20.0 version that was released today.  To my
surprise, export() has grown a new keyword... timeout!
Look like it's solved my problem so far...

Talk about luck. Thanks.

~Sean

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Sean DiZazzo <half.ital...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Let me first say thank you.  This is my first time playing with appscript,
> and it has been a joy to work with.  It took me about a half hour of
> figuring out a few commands that I was trying to do.  Then, all of a sudden,
> I was writing it almost as if I had known it for years.  It scared me a bit
> at first, but once I got started, it became very intuitive.
> I'm doing some work with quicktime, and I'm getting an error (-609,
> "Connection is invalid") when trying to save a large movie as self
> contained.  The error is a bit inconsistent, and actually came up as a
> different error once so far. (-1708, "Application could not handle this
> command")  It seems as if the movie is written to the destination as I
> expect sometimes,  but other times it isn't.
>
> The save_self_contained() process takes about 5 minutes, and there is no
> "timeout" arg to save_self_contained() like there is for export().  Could
> this be the problem?  Is there a way to force a timeout using
> save_self_contained() ??
>
> I've got
> 'appscript-0.19.0-py2.5-macosx-10.5-i386.egg' on 10.5.6 with default apple 
> python
> 2.5.1.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> ~Sean D
>
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