The Quicktime player is extremely picky on what it will play.
I’ve spent a considerable time trying to get movie-files that the Quicktime player will play from my linux system. Most of the ready-made solutions fail in this regard in one way or the other. Avidemux output can’t be played at all, Ffmpeg tends to drift in sync for longer projects, Handbrake output doesn’t play etc.

I’ve come up with this script that does produce files that plays fine on the Quicktime player.
It converts any movie to same-size, h264 in a mov-container. The quality is high, resulting in quite large files but you can lower the quality settings inside the script to get smaller output.

To install, place the script in your nautilus scripts folder and make it executable (chmod +x Convert-to-h264-mov).
Usage is just right click on any video file and run the script from the scripts menu.

Download the convert-to-h264-mov script ver.0.1.1

Download a version with resizing added. This is hard set to 768×432 within the script where you can change to what you’d like to have. It has to be in proportion to the original size though.

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A script that renders selected Synfig project file into a png-sequence.

To install just download the script and copy it to your Nautilus script folder and make it executable (chmod +x synfig_render_to_png-seq).

To use it just select your .sif or .sifz-file, right-click and run the script. The file is now rendered to a png-sequence in a folder beside the Synfig-file.

I’ve set the render size to 1920×1080px but you can change this to whatever you’d like to have inside the script.

Licensed as Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0

A handy little script that creates a list-file that you can import into Synfig Studio.

To install just download the script and copy it to your Nautilus script folder and make it executable (chmod +x synfig_png-seq>list).
Usage is equally simple; select the images you want to import as a sequence and run the script from your nautilus-menu.

Licenced as Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0

A script that renders selected Anime Studio project file into a png-sequence.

To install just download the script and copy it to your Nautilus script folder and make it executable (chmod +x renderAS-file_to_png-seq).

To use it just select your .anme-file, right-click and run the script. The file is now rendered to a png-sequence in a folder beside the AS-file.

Licensed as Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0

A script that renders selected Anime studio project file into a movie for previewing you animation.
(Intermediate image sequence and audio file is created, but deleted after the movie is rendered.)

To install just download the script and copy it to your Nautilus script folder and make it executable (chmod +x AS_file-info).

To use it just select your .anme-file, right-click and run the script. The file is now rendered to a medium quality, halfsize, mp4 movie file called preview-render.mp4 in the same folder as the .anme.

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Unfortunately none of the batch import scripts work in linux and when drag-and-dropping images you get a quite annoying question asking if you’d like to use the image as a tracing image or a normal image for each and every image.

There’s where my script comes in.
It’s a nautilus script that places every image layer you have selected into an .anme-file that you can import into your AS-scene.

To use it select all images you’d like to import and run the script from your right-click meny>scripts. You get a question about which type of layer you’d like to place the images in; Group, bone or switch.
Now it can take a few seconds if you’ve got many images. When done you’ve got a file called “image-export.anme” in the same folder as the images that you can import into your AS-scene.

To install the script place it in your nautilus scripts-folder, ./.gnome2/nautilus-scripts, or by right clicking in nautilus and select >scripts>open scripts folder.
Then make it executable by running “chmod u+x ImagesToAnme.sh” in terminal.

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Sweden License.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Sweden License.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Sweden License.