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Using Automator with FCP to automate repetitive steps (With Video)

July 25th, 2009 · No Comments

In April 2008, I wrote a forum post in the Creative Cow forums about using automator to automate the creation of some image sequences for a football quiz show.
Tim Wilson eventually contacted me about making that post an article for Creative Cow.
Since then, I’ve continued using Automator to ease my workload of repetitive tasks but [...]

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Tags: FCP · automation · tutorial · workflow

New Article out on Creative Cow magazine

April 1st, 2009 · No Comments

My new creative cow article is out.
http://magazine.creativecow.net/issue/the-games
Page 34

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Tags: FCP · automation · editing · game · plugins · shortcuts · workflow

Followup to Automator in FCP Article

July 31st, 2008 · No Comments

From the Creative Cow forum
Mark Peysha on Jul 30, 2008 at 3:40:01 pm
Hey Dustin,
Thanks for your entry on automator.
Have you ever heard of anyone making an interface with automator, so that for instance you could trigger your mac to perform an automator function remotely?
Thanks
Mark
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There are a couple of ways to achieve this.
First of all, you [...]

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Tags: FCP · automation · workflow

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.
The steps executed are [...]

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Tags: FCP · automation · editing · hardware · plugins · workflow