Re: Final Cut Pro plug-in
Re: Final Cut Pro plug-in
- Subject: Re: Final Cut Pro plug-in
- From: Darrin Cardani <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:04:48 -0700
On Mar 21, 2007, at 3:32 AM, Dan Valentin wrote: Hello, I need to write a plug-in for Final Cut Pro. The plug-in should first check if the current project is saved (or if it is modified) and if it is not, it should ask the user to save it. The problems would be: - how to determine which is the current project name / URL (even if it's a new project) - how to determine if it has been saved and no changes have been made since the last save (this is not as important as the rest; it could ask to save regardless of the project's state) - how to save the project - Final Cut Pro should perform the saving ... maybe due to some Final Cut Pro Apple Event ? No code is needed, just functions/events names and the SDK's required. Thank you, Vali
Vali, I don't think that you could write a plugin for this. Final Cut Pro's plugin APIs are all geared at manipulating image data, and don't have any ways of getting at project information. I would think that a stand-alone application or AppleScript could send AppleEvents to FCP, and you might be able to get the information you need that way. However, I'm no AppleEvent expert, so I don't know where to point you on that. I believe that you can see FCP's AppleEvent dictionary (which describes the events it responds to) the same way you would with any other application in AppleScript Studio. (I think - it's been a while since I've worked with AppleScript.)
Darrin
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