![]() ![]() IMovie chapter markers within an MP4 containing all How about another plan of attack: Would anyĪpplication be able to create new files based on ![]() What is needed is a utility that understands how to read the iMovie project file, figures out where the clips are, and exports each clip. So some of what you want can be done, sort of, but not the way you want. There's also no way to apply the name of the selected clip to the exported movie without AppleScript sniffing around in the iMovie project file, which it doesn't know how to do. You have to manually select the clip in iMovie, Save, then run a script that opens the Timeline Movie.mov in QuickTime Player, exports the selection, then closes the movie so the next time iMovie Saves it can properly update the Timeline movie. Here's the problem: There's no way to tell iMovie to select a particular clip in the Timeline and Save the project, the two steps required for the Timeline Movie.mov to select the proper frames. So theoretically an AppleScript could open the Timeline Movie.mov, Copy the current selection to a new movie and export it to a movie with the format you want. So if we select Clip 3 of the iMovie project, Save, and open the Timeline Movie.mov in QuickTime Player, the frames for Clip 3 are pre-selected in the movie. Each time we save the iMovie project, iMovie sets the selected frames of the Timeline Movie.mov to match the clip selected in iMovie. When the Timeline Movie.mov is opened in QuickTime Player, the movie selects the contents of the clip selected in iMovie when the project was last Saved. Theoretically, most of what you want to do is possible, for there's is a subtle but reliable connection between the iMovie project and the Timeline Movie.mov. ![]() QuickTime Player is entirely AppleScriptable, so it can do that. The best you can do is create a script for QuickTime Player that exports a portion of the movie "Timeline Movie.mov" - which iMovie stores in the Cache folder of the iMovie project - to a new movie the format you want. You can't tell iMovie to select clip 3, for example, and export it to a new movie. iMovie is not AppleScriptable, so there's no good way to automate it using AppleScript/Automator. There is no easy way to export a series of clips. Your goal is to export each of the 116 clips in the iMovie project, not their source files, right? (A source file may include two or more clips, and include material not included in the Timeline.) ![]()
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