Re: communication with a digital video camera
Re: communication with a digital video camera
- Subject: Re: communication with a digital video camera
- From: Brian Johnson <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 17:31:20 -0700 (PDT)
Joe,
The video camera needs to talk to some software on your mac (possibly
iMovie) to get a live feed displayed (can you see on-screen what the
camera sees?). If that works, you need to establish whether this
application "is scriptable" (i.e., whether it responds to applescript
commands, and what they need to be). The best way to test this is to drag
the application icon onto the ScriptEditor icon. The resulting window (if
one opens) will contain the application's command vocabular, or
"Dictionary". Somewhere in there should be a "start recording" and "stop
recording". You can then begin scripting with those, as in
tell application "whatever"
start recording
pause 2
stop recording
save to "mymoviefile"
end tell
(just a possible script, possibly with no connection to reality)
HTH
Brian Johnson, Dept of Architecture, University of Washington, Seattle
(a guy who uses PINE to read mail in a Terminal window!)
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Joe Raffanti wrote:
Hi, I'm very new to Applescript, and I was wondering if anyone could
answer a question for me: Is it possible to use Applescript to give a digital
video camera (which is connected to your computer) specific instructions? I
would like to tell the video camera to record for a very short time (less
than a second) and then import the clip onto the computer (much like what
iMovie can do).
If anyone knows anything about how to do this, I would be very glad
for your help.
thanks in advance,
Joe Raffanti
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