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AppleScript - Advanced functions to improve steps / reduce code

I'm trying to reduce the number of steps and and increase performance for my applescript, I just wondered if there are some common functions I can employ. Here's an example script... tell ...
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Batch export selected videos with QuickTime Player 7 using specific export settings?

How can I either use applescript or Automator to batch export video files I have selected in Finder, but NOT using the "Encode Selected Video Files" service method, which only has 4 formats to choose ...
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AppleScript + Quicktime: Start and stop a movie recording and export it to disk

Attempting to start a screen recording, wait a few seconds, stop the recording and export saved recording to disk. Versions AppleScript 2.2.4 QuickTime: 10.2 AppleScript set filePath to "" & (...
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How to programmatically flip a QuickTime movie metadata attribute from one kind to another

I have about 1,700 QuickTime movie files (some have .mov extension, most do not; it's not important, all are seen by the system as "QuickTime movie" and that's what they are) in an organized folder ...
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Applescript save command for QuickTime Player

I've installed the Perian addon for Quicktime so it can open .flv files, and then I can save them as .m4v or .mov. I'm trying to make an Applescript to convert from .flv to .m4v automatically by ...
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How to get QuickTime Player 7 to save its export settings?

I'm trying to get QuickTime Player 7 on Mac OS X 10.6.4 to save its export settings so I can batch convert some MKV movies to M4V (MPEG-4). I've already exported a movie using the settings I want. ...
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