Bill Higgins' Blog » applescript http://billhiggins.us/blog Thu, 08 Dec 2011 03:12:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 AppleScript to resize Safari for recording a YouTube HD video http://billhiggins.us/blog/2010/02/28/script-to-resize-safari-for-recording-a-youtube-hd-video/ http://billhiggins.us/blog/2010/02/28/script-to-resize-safari-for-recording-a-youtube-hd-video/#comments Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:39:21 +0000 Bill Higgins http://billhiggins.us/blog/?p=137 Occasionally I need to produce YouTube HD videos showing me doing something in a web browser. Up ’till now I’ve had to painfully, manually resize the browser window to 1280×720 so that the video didn’t get unnaturally shrunk or expanded by my screencast rendering software. Tonight I figured out a way to automatically resize my browser window to the exact dimensions using AppleScript.

Here is the magical incantation:

tell application “Safari”

activate
set the bounds of the first window to {0, 0, 1280, 720}

end tell

Run this application in AppleScript Editor (/Applications/Utilities/AppleScript Editor) and your browser will be the perfect size for recording movies. You can save the script to a folder for later reuse.

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