Advice on creating video using AppleScript

Hello all,
I am developing a short film project that uses Morse Code. What I am trying to do is to input text into AppleScript and produce frames within Final Cut Pro.
Has anyone had any experience with anything similar?
Cheers,
Nicholas

Core Animation is a Leopard only feature, so it isn't available yet.
I brought up Quartz, because I've done some Cocoa programming (in Objective-C) and know that it makes drawing bezier paths pretty easy. Then it would be a matter of just encoding it as a image file, and saving it out. Like I said, I'm not sure how (or if) you can use Applescript to do the same.
If you don't have much programming experience, it could be a (very) overwhelming process. So if you're comfortable with Applescript, might want to stick with automating a drawing app.

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make new property list item at end of property list items of contents of this_plistfile ¬
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make new property list item at end of property list items of contents of this_plistfile ¬
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make new property list item at end of property list items of contents of this_plistfile ¬
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<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
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</plist>

Hello
You need to create elements at correct container. Like this.
set plist_file to (path to desktop)'s POSIX path & "example.plist"
--set plist_file to "~/desktop/example.plist"
tell application "System Events"
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        end tell
    end tell
end tell
Or you may create a record in AppleScript and set the value of plist file at once. Like this.
set plist_file to (path to desktop)'s POSIX path & "example.plist"
--set plist_file to "~/desktop/example.plist"
set dict to ¬
    {|Username|:"${localAdminUser}", |Password|:"${localAdminPassword}"} & ¬
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--set dict to {|Username|:"${localAdminUser}", |Password|:"${localAdminPassword}", |AdditionalUsers|:{{|Username|:"${localAdminUser}", |Password|:"${localAdminPassword}"}}}
tell application "System Events"
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        set value to dict
    end tell
end tell
Regards,
H
Message was edited by: Hiroto (PS. Fixed second script so that it uses the original case (uppercase) in key string)

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