Default mail in Quicktime Share

Question

I have been taking a lot of small video clips with my new Casio Exilim camera. These clips are taken in .avi format, but by adding the proper codec to the Quicktime library Quicktime can then play and edit them. I need to export them and resize them for email purpose, which I have been doing with Quicktime Pro. I discovered that Quicktime itself has a very nice feature under the file/share menu which allows one to export and resize these clips conveniently (without fussing with Quicktime settings) to small, medium, or large size. For example, a clip originally 6 megabytes in size can be resized to a "small" size, it ends up about 235 kilobytes and plays very nicely. However, Quicktime appears to only default this process to Apple Mail. I use AOL mainly for my mail. Is there any way to change this default mail under the file/share menu?
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Answer 1

I would like to say that I am surprised that an Apple application would ignore a user preference setting but not so much for the past several years. Hmph.
Try changing the AppleScript that QuickTime Player uses...
/Applications/QuickTime\ Player.app/Contents/Resources/mail.applescript
-- dynamicCall publish("[[QTExpNameOut]]")
on publish(attachedFilePath)
tell application "Mail"
set new_message to make new outgoing message
tell new_message
set visible to true
make new to recipient at end of to recipients
tell content
make new attachment with properties {file name:attachedFilePath} at after the last paragraph
end tell
end tell
activate
end tell
end publish
Sample AOL mail AppleScript including attachment feature is here:
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:CBgKDXitou0J:bbs.applescript.net/viewtopic.p hp%3Fp%3D760%26sid%3D2ebec7bf858ffa34f7a86bb782c742beapplescript+%22tell+application%22+%22aol%22-messenger