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

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Mise en place (pronounced [miz ɑ̃n plas], literally “put in place”) is a French phrase defined by the Culinary Institute of America
as “everything in place”, as in set up. It is used in professional
kitchens to refer to the ingredients, such as cuts of meat, relishes,
sauces, par-cooked items, spices, freshly chopped vegetables, and other
components that a [...]

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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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Multiple Versions of FCP
I keep with me on my portable harddisk, at all time these copies of FCP application files.

v5.0
v5.0.2
v5.1
v5.1.2
v5.1.4
v6.0
v6.0.1
v6.0.3

There are many reasons for doing so.
Recently, I encountered an error for FCP v6.0.2, which I covered in the end of this post (Be Replaceable, Have a Life).
Essentially, what I needed was to use v6.0.1 instead [...]

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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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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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