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    <p>There's an easier way than re-encoding the movie to mp4. In quicktime you can export an image sequence from a movie. The images of an image sequence can be png images. As such you can applescript this. Here's the basic outline of what you'd need to do. It might seem complicated but it's really pretty simple.</p> <p>First, Create a settings file for the export as image sequence. You can do that by starting an export and setting up the settings for that. Then run this applescript to save the settings in a file...</p> <pre><code>set exportFileName to "ImageSequenceExportSettings.qtSettings" set exportFilePath to (path to desktop as text) &amp; exportFileName tell application "QuickTime Player 7" tell first document save export settings for image sequence to file exportFilePath end tell end tell </code></pre> <p>Second, your applescript takes a time where you want the image, then you basically trim the movie so that it contains only the frame for that time, then you use the settings file to export that frame as your image, something like this... NOTE: I didn't test the following script</p> <pre><code>set timeOfImage to 60 -- in seconds set settingsFile to (path to desktop as text) &amp; "ImageSequenceExportSettings.qtSettings" tell application "QuickTime Player 7" tell document 1 if (can export as image sequence) then -- trim the movie to one frame set ts to time scale set theFrame to timeOfImage * ts select at theFrame to (theFrame + 1) trim -- save the image set theName to text 1 thru -5 of (get name) set outPath to (path to desktop as text) &amp; theName &amp; ".png" export to outPath as image sequence using settings settingsFile -- close the movie close saving no else error "The front movie cannot be exported to an image sequence!" end if end tell end tell </code></pre>
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