site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: pro-apps-dev@lists.apple.com Hi Mike, Cheers, Helena On Jun 7, 2007, at 1:34 PM, mike@b-scenefilms.com wrote: Hi Mike, There are NO Apple Script capabilities within Final Cut Pro. Big Time is being done with MIDI. In addition FCP has some supported Apple Events (the documentation for which can be found at: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/ FinalCutPro_XML/index.html ), but those are sort of a way to get at the FCP XML and open/close projects, rather than get information about the user interaction... Hope that helps. Regards, Helena On Jun 7, 2007, at 11:55 AM, mike@b-scenefilms.com wrote: If FCP 6 now supports a dictionary for AppleScript, I presume that is new in FCP6? I searched the manual for the keyword Applescript and only found a reference to using it with SoundTrack Pro. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Reading TC from FCP From: Darrin Cardani <dcardani@apple.com> Date: Thu, June 07, 2007 11:46 am To: mike@b-scenefilms.com Cc: pro-apps-dev@lists.apple.com On Jun 7, 2007, at 11:32 AM, mike@b-scenefilms.com wrote: Darrin -- Darrin Cardani dcardani@apple.com _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Pro-apps-dev mailing list (Pro-apps-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/pro-apps-dev/site_archiver%40lists.ap... I'm not allowed to comment on future releases. I will point out that implementing AppleScript support is a fair bit of work. Thanks, Helena. That helps a LOT. My wife is an editor and FCP user. I am a developer and she has asked me recently to figure out a way to automate some of her logging tasks so after looking at AppleScript and noticing that FCP 5.1.x did not have a dictionary I figured I would have to learn fxplug or something to try to automate things for her. The TC project was just something that I figured would be easy to get my feet wet with and give her something she could actually use before I jumped into trying to automate a process in FCP. Is a lack of AppleScript support in FCP a deliberate omission or is it planned for some future release? If you cannot say, that's fine. Apple's "Funny how a ship can leak from the top" dealio is well known to me :) -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: FCP 6 Applescript... From: Helena Ju <hju@apple.com> Date: Thu, June 07, 2007 1:16 pm To: mike@b-scenefilms.com Cc: Darrin Cardani <dcardani@apple.com>, pro-apps- dev@lists.apple.com I posted to another FXPlug group and was told that the FXPlug API does not expose any of the TC data in the current FCP project. My intent was to create a simple TC calculator/converter plug in as an exercise to learn FXPlug. However, I see that Digital Heaven reads the TC out of FCP with their app "Big Time". Admittedly, it's not an FXPlug application. Does anyone have a good idea how they might be doing this? Mike, FxPlugs can get some timing information starting with FCP 6 and Motion 3, but it's not clear what you mean when you say you want time code data. Can you describe in more detail what you're trying to accomplish? It may be possible to do what you want. Looking at DigitalHeaven's website for BigTime (<http:// www.digital- heaven.co.uk/bigtime/>), it appears that it's probably making itself available as a MIDI device, and rather than sending the data out to some actual MIDI hardware, it's displaying the information. That's just speculation on my part, though. It's an interesting idea! I believe that FCP 6 also has some AppleScript capabilities. I haven't worked with them, but it may be possible to get some information out of FCP via that route, too. But if you're just trying to learn FxPlug, definitely have a look through the FxPlug sample code, and feel free to ask questions about what you're specifically trying to do or learn. _______________________________________________ This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com