RE: FCP 6 Applescript...
RE: FCP 6 Applescript...
- Subject: RE: FCP 6 Applescript...
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 14:48:14 -0700
I would like to know this too.
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: FCP 6 Applescript...
> From: "Michael Miller" <email@hidden>
> Date: Thu, June 07, 2007 2:02 pm
> To: "Helena Ju" <email@hidden>
> Cc: email@hidden, email@hidden
>
> Is there documentation somewhere that describes the type of MIDI control
> that FCP supports? In particular, I'd be interested in starting and
> stopping
> the record functionality within the voiceover tool.
>
> I don't mean to change the subject or anything, but using MIDI to control
> FCP never occurred to me :)
>
> -Michael Miller
>
> On 6/7/07, Helena Ju <email@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > 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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