Michel Boissoneault--Apple Script Warning for FCP 6
Hello,
I am trying to get ahold of Michel Boissoneault. He wrote a very handy Apple Script to warn FCE users about reseting their scratch disks at the start of their sessions.
I have since upgraded all of my editing suites to FCP 6 and was wondering if Michel had an Apple Script that could work with them?
Thanks,
Marc Griffin
Hi(Bonjour)!
Here's the original post for FCE warning.
This script can be created to work with final Cut Pro too with cosmetic adaptations.
Michel Boissonneault
I wrote a script that can give a such warning before FCE is lauched.
Open the script editor in your Application-->Applescript folder.
Create a new script, copy and paste the folowing script, save under "FCE WARNING" name in Application File format, with "Run Only" option checked ON (leave others unchecked).
In finder, select FCE HD file, get infos, copy icon, and select your FCE WARNING file, get info, paste FCE icon.
Place the resulting "application" in each home directory of users.
Remove the FCE icon from the dock, and put an alias of your FCE WARNING application. You evenn rename before dragging to "Final Cut Express HD", so students never know that they lauched FCE from a finder applescript...
Et voilà.
Michel Boissonneault
set carriage_return to return as text
beep
set message_A to "Welcome in your Final Cut Express session." & ¬
display dialog message_A buttons {"OK"} default button 1 with icon note
tell application "Final Cut Express HD"
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