Just thought you might be interested that the cool new feature in Leopard you talked about in the end of the article have come to fruition.

I’ve got a post on the application of the new “watch me do” function. Just thought you’d be interested if you’re into automation.

http://luminoir.wordpress.com/2008/06/27/using-automators-watch-me-do-function-to-automate-fcp-commands/

You’re my hero of the day bro! I can’t tell you how long we’ve been looking for a solution to export our sequence markers to a sequential text file. We tried xml2text
which is a Swedish application that only accepts Paypal in the Dutch language. I just tried out XML Reader, it didn’t do what we wanted. I found your great post, downloaded the action and workflow, fired up automator and it works better than we hoped.

We use mostly Avids (blah) and this function is built into those systems, but strangely enough, FCP still has no function like this built in.

Thanks again for this post. My life is easier as a result of your work!!

Andrew Hamilton
DVD Editor
Ultimate Fighting Championship
http://www.ufc.com

I haven’t followed up with this project. It was more of an experiment and the demand was fairly low compared to some of my other projects.

Dale

Sure, I can make the source available. Just shoot me an email and I’ll bundle it up for you. Also, if you uncheck “Line Numbers” in the markerToLog section of the Action it should eliminate line numbers. You can also add or subtract other items in the text file at this stage of the workflow.

Best,

Dale

This is a great little tool. I’m no expert on Automator, but I wanted to have a crack at editing this so I can remove the preceding 01: and the frames from all the timcodes to get it into a format I need. Is there source of your Automator action available?

Thanks

.Mark.

I’m not familiar with InqScribe, but if it has a data format it’s likely to be transferable and mungable. If you send an example I can maybe give you some pointers on how to address the problem.

Best,

Dale

You’re idea “Another interesting Action might be to do this in reverse adding Markers from a producers Excel, Word Doc, or XML File” is very intriguing.

I’m working on a documentary with lots of interviews. I’m transcribing them using InqScribe. It would be amazingly useful to take the InqScribe exports (XML or other) and import them into FCP to add markers to a clip using the timecode. Then I could convert the markers to subclips based on the interview questions and answers…

I wonder if this is possible…

-Aaron Dennis