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  • automator – QT pro >>show mov properties>> flip/rotate 180 degrees

    Posted by Jonas Espinoza on July 22, 2006 at 6:27 pm

    have a huge folder of clips shot with a mini 35 lense adapter, so the clips are upside-down. have kept my originals, but was trying to figure out automator to be able to batch save out flipped versions for speedier offlining, and then i could reconnect to the originals to take into AE/conform

    I think if this automator actions could be done, it would be a great help to many a mini 35 enthusiast

    Andy Mees replied 19 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Andy Mees

    July 23, 2006 at 3:48 am

    not sure if automator can do it but you could have a look at QTCoffee ( https://www.3am.pair.com/QTCoffee.html )
    if you download and install it (and asssuming it works) then you could use applescript to make a “droplet” as below

    FYI … i just copied and pasted this entire script staight off Apple’s “Applescript Resources” website at https://www.apple.com/applescript/guidebook/sbrt/pgs/sbrt.09.htm
    then added the single ine of code second from bottom >do shell script (“modmovie ‘” & (POSIX path of this_item) & “‘ -rotate 180 -save-in-place”)< 1. download and install QTCoffee 2. open the application "Script Editor" in /Applications/AppleScript 3. copy and paste the full script below 4. choose File>Save As… set the File Format popup to “application”, give it a name and save it somewhere accessible
    5. drag and drop a test clip on it and see if it works … if its good, drag and drop the folder containg all the clips on it
    6. if it it doesn’t work, or your machine explodes, it’s not my fault 🙂

    ——————————————-
    —- code follows below —–
    ——————————————-

    — the list of file types which will be processed
    — eg: {“PICT”, “JPEG”, “TIFF”, “GIFf”}
    property type_list : {“MOV”}
    — since file types are optional in Mac OS X,
    — check the name extension if there is no file type
    — eg: {“txt”, “text”, “jpg”, “jpeg”}
    property extension_list : {“mov”}

    — This droplet processes both files or folders of files dropped onto the applet
    on open these_items
    repeat with i from 1 to the count of these_items
    set this_item to (item i of these_items)
    set the item_info to info for this_item
    if folder of the item_info is true then
    process_folder(this_item)
    else if (alias of the item_info is false) and

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