Comments on: Saving Quicktime movies that have save disabled (OS X)

By: alex

alex — Sat, 21 May 2005 17:59:08 +0000

Hi,
I’ve tried the tips and it didn’t work…
What heppends is that I never have a “QuickTimePlugIn…” file in the tmp/501
I’ve already tried about 5 different tips, and I never see this temp files in the 501 folder…
I only have one user in my computer…
I already enabled the save file cache in the quicktime system preferences…
And I’m trying to download movies from the fastchannel site, using the safari browser…
I could really use some help now…
Thanks!!

By: CrackerDan

CrackerDan — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 19:01:57 +0000

Did anyone say how to fix the fact that it is save disabled so you can play with it in Premiere, Final Cut, etc?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

The easy way… open a terminal and cd to /tmp/501 after viewing a movie. (The 501 is your user id so it will be different for other users on the same machine.)

Copy the temp file to ~/Movies/newname.mov. It’ll open with the QuickTime player because of the .mov extension.

-Mostly Harmless

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

$uid = qx(id -u); chop $uid;

$tmpdir = “/tmp/$uid/Temporary Items/”;

$outdir = glob (“~/Movies/”);

opendir(DIR, “$tmpdir”) or die “Can’t open $tmpdir: $!”;

@files = grep { /^QT/ && -f “$tmpdir/$_” } readdir(DIR);

closedir DIR;

foreach $file (@files) {

$size = (stat(“$tmpdir/$file”))[7]/1024/1024;

printf (”
Found: %s, %5.2f MB
“, $file, $size);

print (“New name? “);

$name = <STDIN>; chop $name;

$name = “${name}.mov” unless grep {/.mov$/} “$name”;

print (”
Moving $file to ${outdir}$name

“);

rename “${tmpdir}$file”, “${outdir}$name” or die “Can’t move file: $!”;

}

Save that code to a file and make it executable (chmod 755 filename). Run it and it will prompt you for a name for each QT temp file and move it to your Movies directory.

-Mostly Harmless

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Robert = Smart;

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

You guys are all too smart for me.

Christine

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Ok, file saved.

Now if the file is save disabled via QT4, how do I make that file save abled (?) for cleaner, QT Pro, or Final Cut Pro ?

By: epac

epac — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

you can always save the HTML code, and enable the cache, if it’s disabled. (ie repalce something like:
“embed=http://some server/blh ablha/blah.mov” cache=false” with “ebed…. cache=true” (and load that page in the a browser…)

Jok

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

how is this done on os 9?

Leo

By: jonathan

jonathan — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

How can this be done in Microsoft Windows ?

By: maurin

maurin — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

how you do it in WindowsXP?

By: Lemming

Lemming — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Under WindowsXP, the file will be stored under c:documents and settingsusernamelocal settingstemp

However, I haven’t yet figured out how to make it a playable file.

By: jan

jan — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

In windows all you have to do is move the quicktime file in the temp internet files to another folder, say on you desktop. It copes the entire file over… :)