{"id":1791,"date":"2003-09-30T19:19:19","date_gmt":"2003-10-01T09:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/01\/saving-embedded-quicktime-movies-on-os-x\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:15:13","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:15:13","slug":"saving-embedded-quicktime-movies-on-os-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/30\/saving-embedded-quicktime-movies-on-os-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving embedded Quicktime movies on OS X"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13221,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.macosxhints.com\\\/comment.php?mode=display&amp;sid=20020813100503287&amp;title=Good+idea&amp;type=article&amp;order=&amp;pid=10123&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20091119185730\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.macosxhints.com:80\\\/comment.php?mode=display&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 07:56:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-25 06:39:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-25 06:39:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:12739,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/trailers\\\/newline\\\/returnoftheking&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20100105080611\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com:80\\\/trailers\\\/newline\\\/returnoftheking\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/trailers\\\/newline\\\/returnoftheking&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-25 06:39:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-25 06:39:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macosxhints.com\/comment.php?mode=display&amp;sid=20020813100503287&amp;title=Good+idea&amp;type=article&amp;order=&amp;pid=10123\" title=\"Good idea\">this comment<\/a> on Mac OS X Hints, I found an incredibly easy way to save Quicktime movies that have been embedded into a page (like, say, the recently released trailer for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/trailers\/newline\/returnoftheking\/\" title=\"The Return of the King\">The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Well, easy if you&#8217;re comfortable with using the Mac OS X terminal, at least.<\/p>\n<p>Simply create a shell script (I named mine <code>getmov<\/code>) with the following commands:<\/p>\n<pre><code>#!\/bin\/sh\nditto -rsrcFork \/tmp\/501\/Temporary Items\/QT* ~\/Movies\/$1.mov&lt;\/code&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Then drop that shell script into your <code>\/usr\/bin<\/code> directory, <code>rehash<\/code>, and you&#8217;re set. Now anytime you&#8217;re at a page that has an embedded Quicktime movie that you&#8217;d like to save, just leave the window open, and call that shell script, setting the destination filename at the same time. For instance, to save the trailer for RotK, I simply typed <code>getmov returnoftheking<\/code>, and suddenly &#8216;returnoftheking.mov&#8217; was sitting in my Movies directory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ditto -rsrcFork \/tmp\/501\/Temporary Items\/QT* ~\/Movies\/$1.mov<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039,2038],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-1791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-tech","tag-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}