Whether you use a Macintosh or Windows PC, QuickTime 7 provides powerful automation capabilities that allow you to streamline your digital media production workflow. On the Mac, using Automator or AppleScript, you can tie multiple applications together as building blocks in ways the developers never even dreamed. On Windows, QuickTime 7 includes a new QuickTime COM/ActiveX control that is fully scriptable from Visual Basic allowing for the automation of many common tasks.

Mac OS X

Authoring on Automatic Pilot

QuickTime 7 Pro for Tiger comes with an assortment of easy to use Automator features. For example, you can easily add a URL to a movie, so that when a viewer clicks in the movie, the web page opens in a web browser. Or create an Automator workflow that automatically captures five minutes of video using the new AV Capture feature in QuickTime 7 Pro for Mac OS X and an iCal alarm. Need a custom action? Automator allows you to add your own actions using your favortite scripting language and Xcode.

Precision Control

QuickTime also comes with a full AppleScript dictionary that turns your Mac into a media creation powerhouse. Archive video in FileMaker Pro, create titles in one program and automatically add them to an existing QuickTime movie, replace the audio track, add text tracks and more. The new Script Editor in Mac OS X Tiger features an intuitive new dictionary browser that makes it easier than ever to understand how to script a particular application.

Windows

Windows Developers Rejoice

QuickTime 7 for Windows introduces a completely redesigned COM/ActiveX control that is fully scriptable from Visual Basic, C#, JavaScript, C++ and other applications that can host COM objects. This means that its even easier for Windows programmers to build standalone Windows applications that use QuickTime without needing to master QuickTime’s C/C++ API. Fully scriptable using either JavaScript or VBScript, automating your QuickTime workflow just got a whole lot easier.

For example, if your Windows server can run a Visual Basic, C# or a JavaScript application that uses QuickTime, you have the ability to create custom QuickTime content dynamically for delivery via the Web. As long as your clients have QuickTime installed, your content will work with Windows and Mac clients, Internet Explorer and non-Internet Explorer browsers.

In order to access these capabilities all you need to do is download the QuickTime 7 for Windows Software Development Kit (SDK). Here you will find documentation as well as sample code to get you up and running quickly.