Digital media authors who use the Macintosh platform have an advantage from a production standpoint. When you use Automator or Applescript, you can tie multiple applications together as building blocks in ways the developers never even dreamed. This means that you can easily automate you workflow whether you’re assembling slide shows, encoding files, resizing digital images or embedding QuickTime files in a web page.

Authoring on Automatic Pilot

QuickTime Pro 7 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, that page opens in your web browser. Or create an Automator workflow that automatically captures five minutes of video using the new AV Capture feature in QuickTime Pro 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.