All,
I had a private conversation with BrowserUk about how all the examples using notepad worked fine but QT Pro failed miserably. He was gracious enough to write some code that worked for him. His solution simplified the process greatly using the following techniques

This meant that I had to two things - write a wrapper routine to call this script and set up QT Pro with the settings to remember for each export. The following is BrowserUk's code modified for my purposes. 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Win32::GuiTest qw[SendKeys WaitWindow FindWindowLike SetForeground
+Window];

my ($src_file, $tgt_file, $title) = @ARGV;

## Start QT
system(1, 'C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QuickTimePlayer.exe', qq["$src_f
+ile"]);

## Delete any existing file by that name!!!
unlink $tgt_file;

## Locate the window
my $wid = WaitWindow("^$title", 2);
die "Couldn't find QT" unless $wid;

## Make sure it is on top
SetForegroundWindow($wid);
sleep 1;

## Open the export dialog
SendKeys "%FE";
sleep 1;

## Fill in the name and  Save
## Assumes the dialog has remembered
## the appropriate settings for output format etc.
SendKeys $tgt_file . "%S", 50;
sleep 1;

## Sleep whilst the Export progress window is displayed
sleep 1 while FindWindowLike(0, "^Progress");

## Make sure it is still the active window
SetForegroundWindow($wid);
sleep 1;

## And exit
SendKeys "%Fx";

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Cheers - L~R

In reply to Re: Automating QuickTime Movies To Streaming by Limbic~Region
in thread Automating QuickTime Movies To Streaming by Limbic~Region

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