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Using Automator’s Watch Me Do function to automate FCP commands

June 27th, 2008 · No Comments

I thought you all might be interested to know how I’ve managed to use Automator’s new “Watch Me Do” feature to automate a rather complex sequence of events.
It’s pretty useful for repetitive tasks like the one I’m doing now which is replacing a set of 4 pictures in a simple animated sequence.
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Tags: FCP · automation · editing · hardware · plugins · workflow

Standardized filenaming conventions (What we can learn from Bittorrent)

June 27th, 2008 · No Comments

If you’ve ever searched on a bittorrent search engine for a tv programme, you’ll notice their filenames are always in a certain format.
Part of the reason for this, is that programs like TvShows, ted (Torrent Episode Downloader),
and others rely upon standardized filenames to find and automatically download these torrents as soon as they’re released.
What the [...]

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Tags: editing · workflow