Same here. Hopefully it won't be too long. Martin Baker www.digital-heaven.co.uk www.twitter.com/digitalheaven www.videospaceonline.com www.finalcutters.com ------------------------------------------------------ Digital Heaven Ltd is registered in England and Wales Company registration number: 3628396 Registered address: 55 Lynwood Drive, Worcester Park, Surrey KT4 7AE VAT registration number: GB 736 0989 03 On 1 Feb 2012, at 18:47, Andreas Kiel wrote:

Hi Sam,

What you want to do is not possible at he moment - I'm in the same situation.

-Andreas

On 01.02.2012, at 17:12, Sam Windwer wrote:

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Hi all,

I developed a plug-in for FCP7 that consists of two components: an FxPlug generator and a companion application that communicates with a running FCP7 instance to populate an open sequence with several instances of this generator. The companion application is able to do this using FCP7's support for Apple Events. Specifically, it first sends a "Get Project XML" message, inserts the new instances of the generator into the project's XML, then sends an "Import XML" message to give FCP7 the updated XML (this causes FCP7 to immediately reload the sequence, which now includes the new generators). Is it possible to do something like this in FCPX?

I know that FCPX has support for exporting and importing XML, but this doesn't seem automatable to the same level that it was in FCP7. For example, another posting to this list confirmed that you can send XML to FCPX using an Apple Event, but you can't receive XML. Also, my current implementation makes use of the "updatebehavior" element so that it can modify the open project in-place; it seems that sending XML to FCPX will produce a new project.

Another concern that I have is that according to the documentation, "FCPXML version 1.1 describes certain project data that is useful for exchanging with other applications. It does not describe all possible data, and therefore is not a substitute for the native project file when archiving a project or moving a complete project from one system to another." This means that round trips can be lossy, so my current methodology of retrieving all of the XML for the project, modifying it, then reimporting it may not be the most sound thing to do.

When it comes down to it, I just need a way to programmatically manipulate the contents of the timeline, whether or not that involves using XML. If my current methodology for FCP7 isn't directly translatable to FCPX, is there another way to do what I'm trying to accomplish? For example, is there some sort of API for scripting FCPX (or are there plans to make one)? Or should I go back to the drawing board because programmatically manipulating the contents of FCPX's timeline isn't possible?

Thanks in advance.

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