Re: Determining physical files in Final Cut and Logic session files
Re: Determining physical files in Final Cut and Logic session files
- Subject: Re: Determining physical files in Final Cut and Logic session files
- From: Tim Jones <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:45:14 -0700
On Feb 15, 2010, at 10:14 AM, Helena Ju wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> Logic doesn't have any developers on this mailing list so for that question maybe asking it on coreaudio-api mailing list might work better? Just a guess.
Thanks for the pointer. I made a bad assumption that the Pro Apps list name implied all of them, but Logic really doesn't apply here.
> As for FCP, are you looking for all the media files or project files? and when you say 'session' do you mean, in a project? or something else?
Sorry, I'm old school and a project is a session to me - I should probably update my mindset :-) . We're looking to determine the media files within the project.
> We don't have an API for reading this data apart from within FCP, but one can get all the media files from a FCP project with that project open in FCP, even if the media is offline.
For short term, that might be an answer. Is this via AppleEvent, or can it be easily AppleScripted? It would be great if we could simply provide a scriptlet that the engineer/editor (or intern as in most cases :-) ) could drop into the Scripts folder and then execute to export the list when they send the project file for auditing.
For the long term, the predicament is that the user may need to retrieve this info on a system that has no access to the media files (which presents lots of errors if the project is opened in FCP) or on a system where FCP isn't even available. In a scenario where we can get the project file in XML format, this isn't a problem, but the clients don't always have the luxury of requesting the project in XML format.
Any chance of a feature request making it into the mix near-term?
Thanks,
Tim
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