Inside Macintosh: QuickTime Reference

The find command

The find command locates text strings inside movie files that have a text track. If "backwards" is not used, find assumes search is forward.

find: find text in the movie

find reference -- the movie to search

[text string] -- The text to search for

[backwards boolean] -- perform the search backwards?

Result: integer -- the time at which the text is found

For example:

tell application "QuickTime Player"

tell first movie

find text "growth"

find text "growth" with backwards

end tell
end tell

Inside Macintosh: QuickTime Reference