Help with AppleScript as Export Action

I've been trying to get an AppleScript working as an Export Action in Lightroom 3 on OS X (10.5) without success.
The script (modified from one I found):
on open theObjects
    repeat with theObject in theObjects
        do shell script "/opt/local/bin/mogrify -colorspace Gray " & "'" & (POSIX path of theObject as string) & "'"
    end repeat
end open
I've also tried it as:
do shell script "/opt/local/bin/mogrify -colorspace Gray " & (POSIX path of theObject as string)
I've also tried some simpler things just to check if the script is getting called at all, and it doesn't appear to be. Is there something special I need to do to use an AppleScript as an Export Action? It's in the correct folder, and the script name comes up as a selection in the drop-down menu when using a custom Post-Processing option.
Any help or insights appreciated!

banacheq wrote:
... It didn't even occur to me to look in "File Format" for converting a script to an application.
Apple sometimes makes things "too" easy. Its like trying to find the salt shaker when its right by your plate...
(I had done it before but had forgotten how)
Glad you got it working.
Rob

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Help with applescript to quit certain processes by name?

Hey, for anyone who knows how to program applescripts well, I could use some help with the script below.
I'm very new to applescripting and I'm trying to write a script that would automatically quit up to 100 instances of the Google Chrome Renderer process.
Thanks to google, I found a script similar to what I wanted, and after some tinkering I thought I had it just right. The thing is, if I only set the app_name to Google Chrome, it quits Chrome just fine, but when I try it like this, it doesn't receive any data from grep or awk.
If anyone can help I'd really appreciate it.
repeat 100 times
          set app_name to "Google Chrome Renderer"
          set the_pid to (do shell script "ps ax | grep " & (quoted form of app_name) & " | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'")
          set new_pid to first word of the_pid
          try
                    if new_pid is not "0" or "1" then do shell script ("kill -9 " & new_pid)
          end try
end repeat

try this:
tell application "System Events"
          set procs to (every process whose name is "Google Chrome Renderer")
          if (count of procs) > 100 then
                    set max to 100
          else
                    set max to count of procs
          end if
          repeat with i from 1 to max
                    tell (item i of procs) to quit
          end repeat
end tell

Help with Applescript - filenames

Hi!
I hope there is someone who can help me. I have very little experience with Applescript, and have spent a couple of days scouring these forums amongst others without any luck...
I have a folder (titled XLS) with about 1000 excel files in it. They are numbered basen on some parametric calculations (1111.xls, 1112.xls, 1113.xls, etc). I have constructed an Automator rutine which, one at a time, can open each excel file, copy some cells and then paste the data into an empty xml-file in TextWrangler. The empty xml-file is also in the XLS folder.
What I am looking for is an applescript which can rename the open xml-file with the same filename as the xls-file. So, when 1111.xls is open, the xml-file gets renamed 1111-xml; when 1112.xls is open, the xml-file gets renamed 1112-xml, etc. Each new xlm-file is to be saved into a folder XLM, whivh is also in the XLS folder.
Thanks in advance....
Rob

Se below; there are two folders on the desktop; "xls" (with xls-files in) and "xml", as well as the empty Template.xml file. Here it is!:
--3 XLS to XML
          tell application "Finder"
                    set fileList to every file of entire contents of ("YourHD:Users:You:Desktop:xls" as alias)
          end tell
          repeat with i from 1 to number of items in fileList
                    set currentFile to (item i of fileList)
                    tell application "Microsoft Excel"
                              set screen updating to false
open currentFile
activate currentFile
activate object worksheet 1
                              copy range range ("YourRange")
                    end tell
                    tell application "Finder"
                              copy file "YourHD:Users:You:Desktop:Template.xml" to folder "YourHD:Users:You:Desktop:xml"
                    end tell
                    tell application "Microsoft Excel"
                              set docName to name of window 1
                    end tell
                    tell application "Finder"
                              set docName2 to text 1 thru ((offset of "." in docName) - 1) of docName
                              set theFile to "YourHD:Users:You:Desktop:xml:Template.xml" as alias
                              set the name of theFile to docName2 & ".xml"
open file theFile
                    end tell
                    tell application "TextWrangler"
activate
paste
close text document 1 saving yes
                    end tell
                    tell application "Microsoft Excel"
activate
close active workbook saving no
                    end tell
          end repeat
          tell application "Microsoft Excel"
                    set screen updating to true
quit
          end tell
          tell application "TextWrangler"
quit
          end tell

Help with Applescript and Admin Privelages

I just started using Applestript a few months ago and I can't figure out how to give my script Admin rights. Basically, it turns on and off my internet sharing and file sharing through dialog boxes. I copied and pasted the whole code below if you want to test it, but this is the part that is giving me trouble. There are 4 lines similar to this, the actions that turn on or off the services.
do shell script "/bin/launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.InternetSharing.plist" with administrator privileges
I've tried adding "with password _____" and "password_____" but neither worked. Can anyone help me make this script authenticate itself so I don't need to keep typine in my password? I could easily make a keystroke in system events to type it in but it doesn't always ask for it so I don't know how I'd make the script know when it needs to enter the password. any help is much appreciated!
Some things to clarify: The first shell script is there to invoke the "authentication" dialog so I can sign in once I launch the app and get right into the settings. However, I'd like to make it so the script doesn't even need admin permission to run, or make it somehow have my password built in to it. Security is not an issue, its my personal computer that nobody else has access to so I really don't care if my password is written in the code. Also, if you have any tips on how to streamline the Quit/Hide/Resume dialog I'd appreciate that too. Resume is there because there's a chance I won't have to sign in again if the app does not quit, however more often than not I have to sign in anyways. Thanks again in advance, sorry this post is so long but like I said, I'm pretty new to all this so I don't know exactly what you need to be able to help me.
The Whole Script:
-- Variables and Authentication
set done to "n"
set quitapp to "no"
display dialog "Please enter your password to allow Sharing Manager to make changes to your settings." with icon caution
do shell script "/bin/launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.AppleFileServer.plist" with administrator privileges
delay 0.2
-- Repeats
repeat while quitapp is "no"
          repeat while done is "n"
-- Choose Setting
                    display dialog "Choose Setting to Edit" buttons {"Internet", "File Sharing", "Exit"} default button 3
                    set the button_pressed to the button returned of the result
                    if the button_pressed is "Internet" then
-- Commands for Internet Settings
                              display dialog "Internet Sharing" buttons {"On", "Off", "Cancel"} default button 3
                              set the button_pressed to the button returned of the result
                              if the button_pressed is "On" then
                                        do shell script "/bin/launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.InternetSharing.plist" with administrator privileges
                              else if the button_pressed is "Off" then
                                        do shell script "/bin/launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.InternetSharing.plist" with administrator privileges
                              end if
                    else if the button_pressed is "File Sharing" then
-- Commands for Sharing Settings
                              display dialog "File Sharing" buttons {"On", "Off", "Cancel"} default button 3
                              set the button_pressed to the button returned of the result
                              if the button_pressed is "On" then
                                        do shell script "/bin/launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.AppleFileServer.plist" with administrator privileges
                              else if the button_pressed is "Off" then
                                        do shell script "/bin/launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.AppleFileServer.plist" with administrator privileges
                              end if
                    else
                              set done to ""
                    end if
          end repeat
-- Confirm Quit/Hide
          display dialog "Really quit? You will have to reenter admin info next time." buttons {"Quit", "Hide", "Resume"} default button 1
          if the button returned of the result is "Quit" then
                    set quitapp to ""
          else if the button returned of the result is "Hide" then
                    tell application "System Events"
keystroke "h" using command down
                    end tell
          else
                    set done to "n"
                    set quitapp to "no"
          end if
end repeat

with respect to general improvements, a couple of points:
If I'm reading this script correctly, it looks like you're putting up an applescript alert and leaving it hanging until it's dismissed. This is an atypical approach (applescripts aren't really meant to hang around indefinitely waiting for a respons). If I were doing this I would either go whole-hog and create an applescript application in XCode with a proper interface, or remove the hanging dialog and create a set of toggle scripts that I could use from the script menu. if you really want to keep the hanging dialog, though, you can streamline it by absorbing the secondary dialogs into the main dialog. that's like so:
set netSharingStatus to checkService("com.apple.InternetSharing")
set fileSharingStatus to checkService("com.apple.AppleFileServer")
display alert "Current Settings" message "Click to change settings" buttons {"Internet " & netSharingStatus, "File Sharing " & fileSharingStatus, "Exit"} default button 3
-- choose next action based on the button clicked and the status vairable
on checkService(service)
          do shell script "launchctl list"
          if the result contains service then
                    return "On"
          else
                    return "Off"
          end if
end checkService
using handlers like the above can also streamline the rest of your script. the following construction means you only have to write the do shell script line once, rather than the four times you currently do, and makes for much cleaner reading.
if the button_pressed starts with "Internet" then
          toggleService("com.apple.InternetSharing", netSharingStatus)
else if the button_pressed starts with "File Sharing" then
          toggleService("com.apple.AppleFileServer", fileSharingStatus)
else
--exit routine
end if
on toggleService(service, currentState)
          if currentState in "On" then
                    set action to "unload"
          else
                    set action to "load"
          end if
          set command to "/bin/launchctl " & action & " -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/" & service & ".plist"
          do shell script command user name "adminusername" password "password" with administrator privileges
end toggleService

Help with Applescript

Hi there, thanks in advance for any help on this ...
I have an excel spreadsheet export from our back-office that exports product information from our shop. I want this to be reformatted slightly using AppleScript
An example of our workbook is as follows
A1 B1 C1 D1 E1 F1 G1 H1 I1
text text
So essentially columns A1 to G1 are blank.
What I would like is Applescript to add a row to the top of this workbook and pre-fill each column with a column heading. These are always the same regardless.
Then I would like Applescript to pre-fill each blank row with pre-set information. For example (now) A2 until the last row would read "New". Each one of the blank columns has different data but its always text, never a formula. Ideally it should only fill the rows where H1 contains text, so it does not continue filling those empty columns with data when the rest of the sheet is blank.
Then (if possible) it should save this as a comma delimited CSV.
I know this is pretty harsh, but it would save me hours and hours and work.
Thanks!

applescript forum is under OS X technologies.
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=724
btw, was it you I had a long thread with about moving pictures around using applescript? I lost track of that...

Help with iTunes & Finder Folder Action

My iTunes library has both a TON of albums and a TON of one-off mp3s such as remixes or singles. I'm trying to figure out a way to make two smart playlists and need help.
Playlist One is a smart playlist of 250 of the most recently added one-off tracks, compiled by looking for #single in my .mp3 comment fields.
Playlist Two is a smart playlist of the 25 last ALBUMS I added to iTunes, compiled by looking for #album in my .mp3 comment fields.
For Playlist One I'd like to use Automator and make a folder action to:
- Watch my 'Downloads' folder for downloaded .mp3 files.
- Add those .mp3 files to iTunes, letting iTunes copy to music folder.
- Delete the original file from the 'Downloads' folder.
- In iTunes, add '#single' to the Comment field of added .mp3.
For Playlist Two I'd like to use Automator and make a folder action to:
- Watch my 'Downloads' folder for downloaded .rar and .zip files.
- Open/Unzip those .rar and .zip files.
- Then look for SUBFOLDERS containing .mp3 files in my 'Downloads' folder.
- Add those .mp3 files to iTunes, letting iTunes copy to music folder.
- Delete the folder from the 'Downloads' folder.
- In iTunes, add '#album' to the Comment field of added .mp3.
Can anyone help me with this? Please?

Better yet, an Applescript that can be used as a folder action to watch the Downloads folder and:
1) Open .mp3s in iTunes and append #single to track Comments, then delete original .mp3s.
2) Open .zip and .rar archives, parse then unarchived folder for .mp3 files, add them to iTunes, append #album to track Comments, then delete original folder of .mp3s.
2a) Bonus points if the script adds the .mp3s to itunes in descending order based on file name track numbers (track 10, track 9, track 8...).

Help with applescript/workflow/rule that would unflag mail when read (...)

Here's my scenario:
I have quite many mail.app rules that automatically filter and file incoming mails from newsletters, SNS, work, friends etc. and they all go in specific mailboxes (200+)
I also have some rules that I trigger using MailActOn.
Since with Lion theres now 6 different flags (and that you can rename them) I've included them in the rules actions and set them up to the following categories:
- To Do
- To Do Later
- To File
- News
- Personal
This actually allows me to have these smart mailboxes to appear only when they are flags active.
Now for the first three I want to keep the flags permanently until I'm actully done with them.
But for the "news" and "personal" ones I want to have them "unflag" once I read them.
So to recap, is there a way to systematicall/periodically unflag messages when they are read from specific mailboxes or if they are flagged with a particular flag?
I'd really appreciate if someone would help me out figure out an adequate solution to what I'd like to achieve.
I'm not sure if a kind of a combination of either applescript/workflow/rule would actually make it work...

Here's my scenario:
I have quite many mail.app rules that automatically filter and file incoming mails from newsletters, SNS, work, friends etc. and they all go in specific mailboxes (200+)
I also have some rules that I trigger using MailActOn.
Since with Lion theres now 6 different flags (and that you can rename them) I've included them in the rules actions and set them up to the following categories:
- To Do
- To Do Later
- To File
- News
- Personal
This actually allows me to have these smart mailboxes to appear only when they are flags active.
Now for the first three I want to keep the flags permanently until I'm actully done with them.
But for the "news" and "personal" ones I want to have them "unflag" once I read them.
So to recap, is there a way to systematicall/periodically unflag messages when they are read from specific mailboxes or if they are flagged with a particular flag?
I'd really appreciate if someone would help me out figure out an adequate solution to what I'd like to achieve.
I'm not sure if a kind of a combination of either applescript/workflow/rule would actually make it work...

Help with automator and folder actions please

Hi all!
I'd like to attach a folder action to a folder, so that any time i drag something in it, it'll be sent to my mobile phone.
I just dont get it how to do it.
Can please someone help? I'm totaly incapable of writing an applescript to do so...
Best regards,

Hi!
So next step...
I create a folder so and right-click "configure actions" (sorry my
system is french so the terms are probably different on the US
system....)
Automator launches, and I add the push to BT part to my workflow. I save
it all, and return to the finder.
I right click on the folder, the script appears as it should.
I click on the created script, a window opens with the device selection.
I click OK. and get a message saying that this kind of file (a standard
.sis file) won't be accpted from my device (a 6680 nokia). I click "try
anyway", the window of file transfer opens, but I get the error
"Transfer failed, operation not handled".
I don't get it. Where did I go wrong?
Thanx fo your feedback!

Help with applescript...newbie...no idea what I'm doing...

Apple Script: I got this applescript off of a forum for RapidCart for Rapidweaver. It allows the user to upload multiple thumbnails to each e-commerce page with the code...I don't know how to make this work for my files tho...can anyone help...this is what the person said to put into applescript and then run it...please help...
display dialog "Item número" default answer "" buttons {"OK"} default button 1
set numitem to text returned of the result
display dialog "Número de fotos" default answer "2" buttons {"OK"} default button 1
set contador to text returned of the result
tell application "TextEdit"
    activate
    make new document
    repeat with counter from 1 to contador
        if counter = 1 then
            make new word at end of text of document 1 with data "<a href=%resource(Labe/L" & numitem & ".jpg)% rel=\"remooz\" title=\"Ref. L" & numitem & " foto " & counter & "\"><img class=\"imageStyle\" alt=\"\" src=%resource(Labe/L" & numitem & ".jpg)% width=\"40\" height=\"40\"></a>" & return
        else
            make new word at end of text of document 1 with data "<a href=%resource(Labe/L" & numitem & "_0" & counter & ".jpg)% rel=\"remooz\" title=\"Ref. L" & numitem & " foto " & counter & "\"><img class=\"imageStyle\" alt=\"\" src=%resource(Labe/L" & numitem & "_0" & counter & ".jpg)% width=\"40\" height=\"40\"></a>" & return
        end if
        set counter to counter + 1
    end repeat
end tell

First of all, I know nothing about RapidCart, RapidWeaver
I've cut and pasted the script into the Applescript editor, compiled it and ran it
the first dialog prompts for "Item number" - so I typed "5"
the second dialog prompts for "Number of Photos" - so I typed "2"
Here's the output
<a href=%resource(Labe/L5.jpg)% rel="remooz" title="Ref. L5 foto 1"><img class="imageStyle" alt="" src=%resource(Labe/L5.jpg)% width="40" height="40"></a>
<a href=%resource(Labe/L5_02.jpg)% rel="remooz" title="Ref. L5 foto 2"><img class="imageStyle" alt="" src=%resource(Labe/L5_02.jpg)% width="40" height="40"></a>
the generated HTML is meaningful to RapidCart.
Now, the author should have explained that this script is specific to his needs and MUST be customized for your use.
I don't know how familiar you are with HTML but the "resource" tag refers to a file - a jpg file in this case.

Please help with highest quality export settings...

I have searched the forum and web for hours (no joke!) and I am still trying to figure out what are the best video settings to give me the highest HD quality video in daylight. I am using a Canon HF200 and the latest updated version of FCE. My problem is that I am unable to produce an HD quality video at 1920 x 1080 Full HD without being "jagged". I have two questions; what do you suggest to be the best FCE import and export settings to produce the best HD video, and what settings do you have your HF200 set to (for normal daylight conditions), to produce the best HD video file? The file will be played directly thru my computer to a plasma HDTV.
I have tried several settings, but using anything above 1280x720 16:9, makes the video "jagged". Again, I don't care about the size of the file or how long it takes, I just want the best. Is there something I am missing?
My FCP settings are the following:
I log and transfer the video from the camera into FCP (on a black MacBook; 2.16 GHz with 4 GB RAM) using the AVCHD Apple Intermediate Codec 1920 x 1080i source. I then export the video using the following:
Export using "Quicktime Conversion".
Quicktime options video settings are:
Frame Rate set to "Current"
Key Frames set to every "24" frames
Compressor quality: "best" (Encoding set to "best quality")
Data Rate set to "automatic"
Quicktime options video size are:
"HD 1280 x 720 16:9" (anything higher produces the jags!)
Deinterlace source video is NOT checked
My Canon HF 200 settings are the following:
- P mode
- FXP (17 Mbps)
- 60i framerate
all others are set to the normal default
I have read some reports saying the above is good and others suggesting changing FXP to MXP (24 Mbps) and/or the framerate from 60i to PF30. I don't care about the size of the file, I just want the highest quality HD file.
Any suggestions for the best FCE settings and/or HF200 settings would be very much appreciated!
Thanks for your help,
Evan

Thanks again for the feedback
Let me try my best to answer the above (I'm new at all this and I appreciate you guys taking the time to try and help me out).
First off, I tried rendering and that did not help.
Here is my sequence. I am not going into FCE from the camera directly. I have archived the video file from the camera using iMovie (as well as just making an exact copy of the camera files; they both appear to me to be the exact same, both can be logged and transferred into FCE, and both files give me a jagged FCE result).
Once I log and transfer the file(s), I then take the clip and add it to a sequence file (rendering or not rendering the clip(s) at this point does not make a difference), and then click/highlight the sequence file in the browser and export it.
As for "editing the video in a 1920x1080i60 sequence", I think I am. I am not doing any editing to the clip. It is logged and transferred using the AVCHD Apple Intermediate Codec 1920 x 1080i and then exported using either as a Quicktime Movie or Quicktime Conversion (set for 1920 x 1080 using H.264 compression; both ways still result in a jagged video).
That's about it...log and transfer, add clip to sequence, and then export sequence...
I hope this answers the above, but if not, I apologize; I'm still learning!
Also, if I use iMovie, with similar export (share) settings, I get a non-jagged video (I have tried with deinterlacing and not deinterlacing, and both video results are fine)
Thanks again,
Evan

Help with quality of exported files

The problem: I'm trying to get a good quality, 34 minute movie onto a DVD with chapter markers separating individual short films. This is supposed to be a compilation of 8 family movies, in addition to an introduction and credits at the end. Four movies are old movies made in iMovie and are .m4v files. Four were made in FCE earlier this year. I linked everything together in a Master Sequence, putting pauses in between each with some livetype text files to introduce each video. The m4v files were imported and placed in the master sequence. The others are nested sequences. I put chapter markers at the beginning of each section. My intention was to export this one master sequence as a quick time movie, then put it into iDVD.
It worked, but the quality was horrible! Everything became grainy, even the movies I had previously created in FCE. This was very disappointing. So I expertimented with a few things, and here’s what I found.
When I exported a quicktime movie, the quality degraded. It became grainy. Also, it changed the aspect ratio and stretches everything horizontally, as if to take a standard size screen and stretch it to a widescreen. It did this even with the original movies I had made in FCE. I don’t like building self contained movies using this mode because the file sizes are too big, so when I export I tend to use quick time conversion. In this case, I was hoping a non-self contained movie would merely point to all the original content and not add compression artifacts (or something like that). It turns out it made it worse.
When I tried to export a quicktime conversion, 640x480 VGA, best quality, H.264, the machine couldn’t do it. It ran for an hour or so and then crashed. Twice. That is for the entire movie. When I export individual clips (3-6 minutes) it works. The quality is good for movies made in FCE, not as good for imported m4v movies made long ago in iMovie, but better than what I get exporting quicktime movie files, either self contained or not. This is surprising to me, because I was expecting the export quick time movie command to produce the best quality. Also, I’m concerned that if I was able to create this, iDVD would not see any chapter markers anyway.
So there is a problem either way. Experimenting has led me to discover several questions/issues which need answering:
Issue #1: Why can’t I get a quick time movie of the same quality as what I see on the canvas, using the quick time movie export command? On a side note, the user's manual says something about a settings pop up menu where you can deselect the "recompress all frames" option. I can't seem to find this, and was thinking maybe that would help.
Issue#2: Why do m4v files which are very high quality in iTunes suddenly become poor quality when imported into a sequence? Seems to be an import problem, because the movies are already grainy when they’re on the canvas. I thought about making XML files and importing them that way, but the original project files in iMovie are gone.
Issue #3: Why do I end up with a stretched picture if I export quick time movies and there are mixed aspect ratio contents in the sequence (the m4v files are widescreen, the others are not)? More important, how to I get FCE to not do this?
Issue #4: When I export movies using quick time movie (not conversion), the grainy movies actually look better when played in VLC. They also look good when opened with FCE. How can I get that kind of quality in quick time, or at least in iDVD? Perhaps that would solve my problem.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
E

Thanks for the response. I’m not fluent with codecs or video compression, so this project quickly became more trouble than I expected.
It turns out the nested sequences are not H.264, the compression field is blank for the nested sequences. I double checked and the other properties are correct. Sorry about that. The other movies, though, (ones built in iMovie for iTunes) are H.264.
These four . m4v movies are in 960x540 and 480 x 272 because of the way they were exported in iMovie (Share -> Export Movie opens a menu with four sizes: Tiny 176 x 144, Mobile 480 x 272, Medium 640 x 360, and Large 960 x 540).
I just imported the final products (what was exported from iMovie) as clips into FCE. Sounds like I should not be doing that. The original media is on my computer, but not the iMovie project files, and for what I’m trying to do it’s just not worth the time to rebuild the movies in FCE.
Bottom Line: Here’s the current status of the project:
All eight of the movies, by themselves, play well in quicktime. I can put all of them on a DVD, and they still play ok. I wanted to string them all together in one sequence, with some transitions in between (creating a “Play All” option on the DVD). That’s why I nested the sequences, and imported the movies made from iMovie, than added chapter markers. Unfortunately, putting these different types of media together and asking the computer to make one sequence is creating a mess. So I’m sticking with Plan B and putting the movies on a DVD without trying to merge them into a single track.
A few follow up questions…
Out of curiosity, when you say “convert everything to QuickTime DV NTSC 720x480 at 29.97fps with 48k audio,” do you mean the original media (all of the bits of video and stills that came from the camera) or the edited sequences I’m currently working with? As a lesson learned, should I be changing properties of clips before importing them to FCE, so the source material has consistent aspect ratios?
The still images, though they are huge, show up with much better quality than the movies (which is expected, and I’m ok with). So I get a product which includes both video and still images, where the images are very sharp and the movie portions are a bit grainy (because they were taken on a small digital camera). If I change the size on the stills, won’t that just bring the still image quality down?
I’m still baffled at why using the export quick time movie command makes a video of lower quality than when using quick time conversion (in other cases as well, not just this project). In every case, I’ve got digital pictures and movies from my digital camera, and some text in FCE or LiveType files on top of that, usually with additional audio tracks.

Need help with Premiere CS4 Export...

I currently shoot HD video with a Canon Vixia HF S10 digital camcorder (link goes to Canon's site). I shoot at the highest quality available, MXP 24 Mbps (1920x1080). When I bring the video over to my machine, it comes over as an .mts file which is the AVCHD file format (link goes to Wikipedia article on the format). I import these .mts files into Adobe Premiere (CS4). I import them into a AVCHD 1080p30 (29.97) Sequence. I do my editing, adding title screens, music, whatever. The problem comes when I go to export the final product into a usable format. I've tried all different sorts of formats to export to and I can't get any usable results. If I select, for instance, H.264 HDTV 1080p 29.97 High Quality (a preset within Premiere) the video comes out extremely choppy...as in the audio will play and the video will hitch along and be mostly out of sync dropping whole sections of the video as it tries to catch up.
My end goal is to be able to export two versions...a higher quality (maybe burned to a DVD or Blu-Ray) and a lower quality (but still HD) for uploading to YouTube/SmugMug.
Any help or thoughts anyone may have would be greatly appreciated.

Hmm... My CS5/AVCHD 1st Impressions http://forums.adobe.com/thread/652694?tstart=0 includes a link to what I built for CS5
Your computer is going to be a bit slower, but I don't see anything really obvious that would cause the output to be choppy
But... have you considered converting to HDV to see if that edits better for you?
Convert AVCHD to HDV http://forums.adobe.com/thread/390605?tstart=0
or use Cineform Neo Scene http://www.cineform.com/neoscene/
Added... Looking at my notes, I use a different AVCHD setting in CS5... have you tried other AVCHD project settings?

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I'm exporting video using a Mac, OS X 10.8.2 and I want to be sure Windows users will be able to play the video on their desktop, most likely using Windows Media player.
I didn't see a preset for .WMV format and I don't have a windows machine to test various presets.
Thanks for your help.
~Paul

Use H.264 .MP4 video - plays in webbrowser plays with quicktime plays with windows media player...

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I posted a question on the AppleScript section, if anyone can help...
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3451760
Thanks!
(I'm trying to get an array into what I know of in Excel as a "range". How can this be done with numbers?)

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tell application "Numbers" to tell document 1 to tell sheet 1 to tell table 1
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end tell
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I am an intern at an architecture firm, and I would like to know if there is any way to code a program (using AppleScript or Automator) to complete this task:
Combine files that have similar file names into a folder and rename the file as the first file automatically. There are hundreds of files, and an expedient and efficient way of completing this task would be greatly appreciated.
For example:
I have files:
07-480-1.jpg
07-480-2.jpg
07-480-3.jpg
07-480-4.jpg
07-481-1.jpg
07-481-2.jpg
07-481-3.jpg
07-481-4.jpg
07-481-5.jpg
I want to select files names with similar characters (07-480 and 07-481) and place them into respective folders.
So the folders would be called
07-480-1
07-481-1
Any advice would be helpful.
Thank You!
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Almost anything is possible... the issue is the work-effort required to achieve the desired result.
In this case there are a lot of variables that you haven't covered, which may make the job easier or harder.
For example, you give a series of example file names, and appear to want to group them by the same initial 6 characters (although your example seems to create folder names based on the first 8 characters of the first match... is that true? Without knowing the background, I would expect '07-480-1.jpg' to go into the '07-480' folder, not the '07-481-1' folder). Those kinds of details will make a difference.
So if my theory is correct ('07-480' should be the folder name), do you want to create a folder every time? or only when there are two or more files (e.g. do you want an '07-490' folder when there's only one relevant file?
Here's a starting point. I'm assuming that you want the '07-480' form of the folder. When the script runs it will ask for the folder to check, then (blindly) iterate through the files in that folder, moving them into folders based on the first 6 characters of the file name, making new folders as needed:
tell application "Finder"
set theFolder to (choose folder)
repeat with eachfile in (get files of theFolder)
-- assume the standard filename format
-- may need error checking here to make sure the name matches what we expect
-- for now we just skip over any errors through the use of a try statement
try
-- get the first 6 characters of the file name
set basename to characters 1 through 6 of (get name of eachfile) as text
-- check if we already have a folder of the desired name
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make new folder at theFolder with properties {name:basename}
end if
-- now move the file into the folder
move eachfile to folder basename of theFolder
end try
end repeat
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