folks, feature requests require bugs on bugreporter.apple.com and we can't comment on what we can and can't do.-H On 2010-02-15, at 10:15 AM, Jon Chappell wrote: Tim,
You could always search for strings within the file and then filter out ones without path separators. This will, of course, be slow but perhaps not as slow as requesting the XML from FCP. I have found this to be as slow as molasses and it ties up the FCP UI for the user, which can be a deal-breaker in certain situations.
While we're on the subject of feature requests, is there any chance of XML project files (like Motion) in the next version of FCP or at the very least, exporting the XML on a different thread so that the user can continue their work? The background sharing feature in FCP 7 is promising and it would be nice to see it extended to other time-consuming functions that lock up the UI.
Regards, Jon Chappell. CEO, Digital Rebellion LLC. On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Tim Jones <email@hidden> wrote:
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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