Mark, this probably isn't exactly what you need, but you might take a look at this website:
http://www.techsmith.com/camtasiamac/ --- On Thu, 4/29/10, Mark Swindell <mdswind...@cruzio.com> wrote: > From: Mark Swindell <mdswind...@cruzio.com> > Subject: Re: OT Exporting movie clip to stills > To: "How to use Revolution" <use-revolution@lists.runrev.com> > Date: Thursday, April 29, 2010, 9:14 AM > 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 > > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and > manage your subscription preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage > your subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution