I see what you are saying about slowing Alfred down.
Thanks for the idea. I don't know if it would do much to help my situation. If there is no QuickTime document, then the second script won't have any effect anyway. It's relying mostly on the application's default behavior, so I'm not really concerned.
I am completely new to AppleScript however, so is there a way that I can prevent the notification output from appearing if the second AppleScript were to return false or something like that?
Thanks