Start Quicktime screencast workflow

[Jb_Bryant]

I have an extension in Alfred v. 1 that I'm trying to turn into a workflow. The v. 1 extension ran this applescript upon entering "screencast" as the keyword. For the workflow, I'm trying the same thing and it never runs. I've tried:

 

 

tell application "QuickTime Player"

    start (new screen recording)

end tell

 

And

 

alfred_script(q)

tell application "QuickTime Player"

    start (new screen recording)

end tell

end alfred_script

 

Am I doing something wrong? I know it says applescripts "work but not finished for beta" but I don't know what that means exactly.

 

[jdfwarrior]

try

 

 

on alfred_script(q)

tell application "QuickTime Player"

    start (new screen recording)

end tell

end alfred_script

 

subtle difference, but, add "on" in front of the alfred_script(q) line.

[MrClaye]

on alfred_script(q)

tell application "QuickTime Player" to activate

tell application "System Events"

    tell process "QuickTime Player"

        keystroke "n" using {control down, command down}

        keystroke space

    end tell

end tell

end alfred_script

 

It works well, part on "my" workflow available there http://goo.gl/s6d4O

[Jb_Bryant]

try

 

 

on alfred_script(q)

tell application "QuickTime Player"

    start (new screen recording)

end tell

end alfred_script

 

subtle difference, but, add "on" in front of the alfred_script(q) line.

 

Ahh I don't know how I missed that. Thanks!

[jdfwarrior]

Ahh I don't know how I missed that. Thanks!

 

It's always the simple things that will get you and cause you the most frustration.

[webdiner]

I'm pretty new to Alfred and can see how this is a huge time saver.

 

Does anyone know if there is a way to setup a shortcut to stop the screen recording > Export As > 1080p > To a DropBox folder > Copy DropBox link to clipboard.

[deanishe]

1 hour ago, webdiner said:

Does anyone know if there is a way to setup a shortcut to stop the screen recording > Export As > 1080p > To a DropBox folder > Copy DropBox link to clipboard.

 

That's probably going to be very difficult to do. You can export the file easily enough using AppleScript, but AFAIK the only way to do the Dropbox bit is to simulate right-clicking on the right file in Finder, which is very tricky to get right.

 

[webdiner]

Thanks for the reply. Makes sense. Can you help with the Stop Recording > Export As > 1080p part?

[deanishe]

58 minutes ago, webdiner said:

Can you help with the Stop Recording > Export As > 1080p part?

 

No. I've just tried it, and it appears that the sandbox is preventing the export (using AppleScript). Presumably, it is doable (otherwise the API would be pointless), but I've spent 30 minutes trying to figure it out and couldn't.

 

Perhaps someone more knowledgeable about AppleScript can help.

[webdiner]

@deanishe I appreciate the effort.