Re: FCP 6 Applescript...
Re: FCP 6 Applescript...
- Subject: Re: FCP 6 Applescript...
- From: Helena Ju <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 13:49:17 -0700
Hi Mike,
I'm not allowed to comment on future releases. I will point out that
implementing AppleScript support is a fair bit of work.
Cheers,
Helena
On Jun 7, 2007, at 1:34 PM, email@hidden wrote:
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 <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, June 07, 2007 1:16 pm
To: email@hidden
Cc: Darrin Cardani <email@hidden>, pro-apps-
email@hidden
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, email@hidden 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 <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, June 07, 2007 11:46 am
To: email@hidden
Cc: email@hidden
On Jun 7, 2007, at 11:32 AM, email@hidden wrote:
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.
Darrin
--
Darrin Cardani
email@hidden
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