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Greetings,
I need a movie player which will play movies randomly. On a basic level, this is similar to the “Shuffle” function on iTunes. Or, in screensaver, where you can choose a folder containing still images to be played in random order, with a few parameters (like transition, fit to screen, etc).
The application for me is for a project I am working on made up of, eventually, hundreds of movies (of a particular place, event or person). These are HD (Apple ProRes) 1080p 24fps movies. They have no sound. They can all be grouped in one folder, say. I tell the movie player to play the movies continuously, in random order, from this folder, simple as that. They can be simple cut transitions, so there does not have to be any rendering, but the cuts must be smooth (ie, no jumps or black spaces inbetween).
Anybody know of anything like this out there?
Thanks ! Dave Berry

You might explore digital video disc jockey applications. I know of no way to tell any application like QT Player to pick random movies. That requires some scripting to generate a random number and to then use that number to select an item from a folder and then to push play and then to wait for the movie to end before running the script again.
But... You might open up the documentation for Automator and see if it can be done in QT Player. Someone may have already written a shuffle script.
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