Aggressively increase a QuickTime movie's playback speed

Greetings,
I know it is possible to increase the speed of a QuickTime movie to 3x its original recorded speed using QuickTime Pro's AV control from the menu bar.
I was wondering if there is a way to increase the speed in a much more aggressive manner. For example, capturing a flower opening or a sunrise. That is, an hour of video compressed into a minute or less.
Experimenting with AppleScript's "Set Rate" command yields uneven playback beyond 3x.
I didn't expect to find the capability native in QuickTime but I was wondering if there is software available for QuickTime to accomplish this?
All feedback welcome,
Andrew Ontko

It is available in QuickTime Pro. You need only think outside the box.
QuickTime Pro allows to "Add Scaled". This means that the source of your paste will match the "timeline" of the "other file".
So. You want an hour of video to play in one minute. That would become an extremely high frame rate that many computers couldn't keep up with. But QuickTime Player is designed to "drop" frames so your file (when viewed) may appear just as you wish.
You could also use the "Image Sequence" feature of QuickTime Pro to create your file. This new file would not have the excessive frame rate.
To use the "Add Scaled" feature simply extract your video track (not needed if their is no audio) and save as (new file).
Let's assume your video is 60 minutes in duration at 30 frames per second. That's a lot of frames (108,00 to be exact).
Human eyeballs and brains don't do well with more than 60 fps.
Try this:
Open a one minute audio file with QuickTime Pro. Also open your one hour video in a new Player window.
From the "video" movie and select all (Command-A) and copy (Command-C).
Switch to the audio movie, select all and choose "Add to Selection & Scale".
Open the Movie Properties window of this new (not saved yet) file and "Delete" the audio track. Save As, name and try this new file.
A "better" approach would be to export from your one hour video at a lower frame rate as "Image Sequence". Set the export frame rate to only send one new image file for each minute of file time (total of 1,800 "frames").
Be sure to export to a new folder or you'll have images all over your Desktop.
From QT Pro choose "Open Image Sequence", highlight the first file name in new folder of images, set the frame rate (you wanted 30 fps) and QuickTime Pro will make a new file.
I use Add and Scale to create various effects (video and audio). Your audio can sound like James Earl Jones to the Chipmunks and your video can play as fast, or slow as you like.

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