okay after A LOT of research i FINALLY built a successful applescript studio project that will do the afformational mpeg-2->mpeg-2 in quicktime (blank pict, drag movie, export...) i was thinking for dvd downsampling it would be a nice option in afropic to be able to choose from mpeg2enc or qt mpeg-2 encoder since the qt mpeg-2 encoder is SO much faster. (DP 800 it re-encodes realtime or faster, stick that in your pipe and smoke it pentium) but my problem is, to keep the applescript program from hogging precious processor speed i have it ignoring application responses from quicktime so the script doesn't sit there with a color wheel till the conversion is done. the problem with this is i want to have it go from one process to another (re-encode video in qt, re-encode audio in terminal[obviously an optional step since ac3 audio is better], multiplex, build dvd folders) and since i would need to know when the video is done in quicktime before going on to multiplexing im kind of at a loss... i don't want to remove the ignoring application code b/c the applescript would be taking up too much of the system resources....there has got to be a better way... any ideas??