Re: FCP Plug-In Capabilities
Re: FCP Plug-In Capabilities
- Subject: Re: FCP Plug-In Capabilities
- From: Simon Wolf <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 19:54:39 +0100
On 4 Jun 2009, at 17:58, Darrin Cardani wrote:
On Jun 4, 2009, at 5:01 AM, Simon Wolf wrote:
Apologies in advance that this is such a basic question but FCP is
a completely unknown entity to me. I have tried to do some
searching but my Google-skills are either limited today or there
isn't much information out in the wild about this.
As the sole Mac developer at work I have been asked if it is
possible to create some sort of plug-in for FCP which allows us to
add functionality such as opening files from pre-defined locations.
Essentially, as I understand it, the ideal situation would be to
provide the users with a new menu containing various commands which
will perform file-based actions.
Is this sort of thing possible within the plug-ins architecture or
do I not get to play with FCP?
It's not possible through a plugin, but there are some other ways
that you could do what you want. One relatively easy solution would
be to create an application with a window that just has several
buttons in it. When the user clicks one of the buttons, you can send
an Apple Event to FCP to open the appropriate file, or possibly even
just open it using Launch Services. Depending on your needs, making
the window be an always-on-top floating window may or may not be
desirable. I think there's an API for adding items to the right side
of the menubar, where the clock normally is and other stuff like the
sound, airport, and time machine items. I don't remember off the top
of my head what that API is, but you can probably ask on the Cocoa-
dev list, which you can sign up for here:
<http://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/cocoa-dev>
Great idea, thank you. I'd done some tinkering with adding a menu bar
item so this definitely sounds possible.
In fact, I have a script menu there, that I must have turned on by
running /Applications/AppleScript/AppleScript Utility. The easiest
solution would be to write an AppleScript that just sends an open
event to FCP with the desired file. Then add the script to the
scripts folder. The scripts are stored in /Library/Scripts for the
whole computer (all users), or ~/Library/Scripts for an individual
user.
Another great idea, thank you.
Let me know if that helps,
It does and it's given me a lot of food for thought. Although I've
used AppleScript extensively in the past I've not used Apple Events
yet so I'm now looking forward to having a tinker and seeing what I
can come up with.
Very many thanks.
Simon
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