Apparently the script accumulates memory over time. That combined with the other memory usage, almost no free memory was available), making the computer extremely slow. In ‘Activity Monitor’ I see that applescript is taking up all the available memory (the computer has 8Gb of Ram, and applescript took up 5.5Gb. When I do short test-clips of a few hundred frames, everything goes fine, but when I let the computer work overnight on thousands of frames, applescript always stops somewhere in between with the error “System events got an error: Connection is Invalid”. The script I wrote does something like this: System events tells quicktime to move 5 frames forward, 5 frames backwards, make a screenshot and advance one frame. I’m experimenting to make datamoshing video’s, a little bit like so: įirst I prepare the video, and then I’m moving the cursor backwards and forwards in various patterns.
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