On a mac, rsync is already built in, so the core functionality is already in the system.
There are a number of GUI frontends around that help make this more user friendly, but most of them make you pay for what is essentially a juiced up copy and file difference comparison tool. Unless the sync frontend [...]
Entries Tagged as 'automation'
Automatically backup your video editing project files and assets
December 20th, 2010 · No Comments
Tags: automation · tutorial · workflow
Wacom Macro Scripting to save time
July 30th, 2010 · No Comments
Here’s a link to a quick video I made to show what you can do with the Macro buttons on any Wacom Tablet.
View it in HD so you can see the details.
Tags: FCP · Uncategorized · automation · editing · shortcuts · tutorial · workflow
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 [...]
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
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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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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