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iWill make secure video distribution easier!

ipod dailies / secure podcast how-to

FCP, automation, compressor on February 22nd, 2010 No Comments

The other day I ended up on a website that offers a red camera service that includes dailies available on ipod and via podcast. The second half of that idea really intrigued me. I know that it ought to be doable, so I set out to figure out how to do it. Within a few [...]

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Auto upload to ftp - set it and forget it!

Get compressor to upload to ftp once finished

FCP, applescript, automation, compressor on January 22nd, 2010 11 Comments

This is something I have been going back and forth on for quite some time. I love the idea of a drag and drop upload to ftp. I absolutely hate the idea of having to hard code the ftp password into a piece of applescript. If that script accidentally ends up in the wrong hands [...]

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Let the pictures do the talking.

quicktime footage to contact sheet, automated in 2 steps

FCP, applescript, automation on January 11th, 2010 6 Comments

Contact sheets can be an incredibly useful tool to deal with tons of photos. For non-photographic types, these are sheets with lots of little thumbnails on them to quickly show a lot of images. One little-known use is to use them to show stills pulled from a video. This can help to show clients / [...]

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Brains... not Brawn.

Email me when that is finished, compressor!

applescript, automation, compressor on December 30th, 2009 1 Comment

I don’t know if you have ever been able to get compressor to email you when it is done compressing, but I never have. The email control panel in compressor never seems to get the job done, so I decided to go about it a different way. I just wrote an applescript that you can [...]

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