Place holders in a watch folder: can it wait?

Hi,
I'm wondering....is it possible to use a watch folder with a project-collect filesfolder in it that waits until the place holders in the folder are replaced with all of the right footage? when it get's the right footage it should render. Now it renders no matter what is in the project, resulting in an empty movie.
Thanks
Renevgag

Hi
sounds convincing. I will look into those network render programs. Thanks very much for your to the point answer.
renevgag.

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I can launch and save documents with all the application I want but excel so that's the problem.
Please take a look and keep me updated I badly need to find a solution for this issue.
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Hi Davide,
This is no the right forum for your issue. I think you can consult this issue on some Excel end-user related forum.
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Hi Jon...
Thanks for your help, but...
I checked the privileges on the files I'm generating. All of the .ps files I'm creating from QXP 7.3 are read-write.
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try
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SomeFolder [mixed]: a folder to check
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if TheCount is less than 1 then return {} -- error
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if ThePrompt then
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set ThePrompt to ""
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else -- fix up the given prompt a little
set ThePrompt to ThePrompt & return
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set TheTitle to "Multiple Edit Dialog" -- default
else
set TheTitle to ""
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set {TempTID, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to {AppleScript's text item delimiters, return}
set {SomeItems, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to {SomeItems as text, TempTID}
set TheInput to paragraphs of text returned of (display dialog ThePrompt with title TheTitle default answer SomeItems)
repeat with AnItem from 1 to TheCount -- pad/truncate entered items
try
set the end of TheItems to (item AnItem of TheInput)
on error
set the end of TheItems to ""
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replace all occurances of OldItem with NewItem
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OldItem [text]: the item to be replaced
NewItem [text]: the item to replace with
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Message was edited by: gamebreakers

When you use the open or adding folder items to handlers, you need to add the parameters for the file items passed to them.
I'll go ahead and post the applet/droplet version of my original script from the previous topic for reference:
<pre style="
font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
font-size: 10px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
width: 720px; height: 340px;
color: #000000;
background-color: #FFEE80;
overflow: auto;"
title="this text can be pasted into the Script Editor">
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-- the terms to replace - edit as needed
property EditableItems : {¬
"one", ¬
"two", ¬
"three", ¬
"four", ¬
"five", ¬
"six", ¬
"seven", ¬
"eight", ¬
"nine", ¬
"ten", ¬
"eleven", ¬
"twelve", ¬
"thirteen", ¬
"fourteen", ¬
"fifteen", ¬
"sixteen", ¬
"seventeen", ¬
"eighteen", ¬
"nineteen", ¬
"twenty"}
-- the folder for the output file(s) - change as needed
property TheFolder : (path to desktop)
property LastEditItems : EditableItems
on run
the applet/droplet was double-clicked
open (choose file with multiple selections allowed)
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on open TheItems
items were dropped onto the applet/droplet
parameters - TheItems [list]: a list of the items (aliases) dropped
returns nothing
repeat with AnItem in TheItems
ReplaceMultipleItems from AnItem
end repeat
end open
on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving these_items
folder action - items were added to a folder
parameters - this_folder [alias]: the folder added to
these_items [list]: a list if items (aliases) added
returns nothing
repeat with AnItem in these_items
ReplaceMultipleItems from AnItem
end repeat
end adding folder items to
to ReplaceMultipleItems from SomeFile
replace multiple text items in SomeFile
parameters - SomeFile [alias]: the file to replace items in
returns nothing
set TheName to (GetUniqueName for SomeFile from TheFolder) -- the name for the output file
set TheText to read SomeFile -- get the text to edit
set Originals to (choose from list EditableItems default items LastEditItems with prompt "Select the terms to replace:" with multiple selections allowed) -- the specific terms to replace
set LastEditItems to Originals
set Replacements to (EditItems of Originals with Title given Prompt:"Edit the following replacement terms:") -- the replacement terms
repeat with AnItem from 1 to count Originals
set TheText to (ReplaceText of TheText from (item AnItem of Originals) to (item AnItem of Replacements))
end repeat
try -- write a new output file
tell application "Finder" to make new file at TheFolder with properties {name:TheName}
set OpenFile to open for access (result as alias) with write permission
write TheText to OpenFile starting at eof
close access OpenFile
on error errmess
try
log errmess
close access OpenFile
end try
end try
end ReplaceMultipleItems
to GetUniqueName for SomeFile from SomeFolder
check if SomeFile exists in SomeFolder, creating a new unique name if needed
parameters - SomeFile [mixed]: a source file path
SomeFolder [mixed]: a folder to check
returns [text]: a unique file name and extension
set {Counter, Divider} to {"00", "_"}
-- get the name and extension
set {name:TheName, name extension:TheExtension} to info for file (SomeFile as text)
if TheExtension is in {missing value, ""} then
set TheExtension to ""
else
set TheExtension to "." & TheExtension
end if
set {NewName, TheExtension} to {TheName, (ChangeCase of TheExtension to "upper")}
set TheName to text 1 thru -((count TheExtension) + 1) of TheName
tell application "System Events" to tell (get name of files of folder (SomeFolder as text))
repeat while it contains NewName
set Counter to text 2 thru -1 of ((100 + Counter + 1) as text) -- leading zero
set NewName to TheName & Divider & Counter & TheExtension
end repeat
end tell
return NewName
end GetUniqueName
to EditItems of SomeItems given Title:TheTitle, Prompt:ThePrompt
displays a dialog for multiple item edit (note that a return is used between each edit item)
for each of the items in SomeItems, a line containing it's text is placed in the edit box
the number of items returned are padded or truncated to match the number of items in SomeItems
parameters - SomeItems [list]: a list of text items to edit
TheTitle [boolean/text]: use a default or the given dialog title
ThePrompt [boolean/text]: use a default or the given prompt text
returns [list]: a list of the edited items, or {} if error
set {TheItems, TheInput, TheCount} to {{}, {}, (count SomeItems)}
if TheCount is less than 1 then return {} -- error
if ThePrompt is in {true, false} then -- "with" or "without" Prompt
if ThePrompt then
set ThePrompt to "Edit the following items:" & return -- default
else
set ThePrompt to ""
end if
else -- fix up the given prompt a little
set ThePrompt to ThePrompt & return
end if
if TheTitle is in {true, false} then if TheTitle then -- "with" or "without" Title
set TheTitle to "Multiple Edit Dialog" -- default
else
set TheTitle to ""
end if
set {TempTID, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to {AppleScript's text item delimiters, return}
set {SomeItems, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to {SomeItems as text, TempTID}
set TheInput to paragraphs of text returned of (display dialog ThePrompt with title TheTitle default answer SomeItems)
repeat with AnItem from 1 to TheCount -- pad/truncate entered items
try
set the end of TheItems to (item AnItem of TheInput)
on error
set the end of TheItems to ""
end try
end repeat
return TheItems
end EditItems
to ReplaceText of SomeText from OldItem to NewItem
replace all occurances of OldItem with NewItem
parameters - SomeText [text]: the text containing the item(s) to change
OldItem [text]: the item to be replaced
NewItem [text]: the item to replace with
returns [text]: the text with the item(s) replaced
set SomeText to SomeText as text
if SomeText contains OldItem then
set {TempTID, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to {AppleScript's text item delimiters, OldItem}
try
set {ItemList, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to {text items of SomeText, NewItem}
set {SomeText, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to {ItemList as text, TempTID}
on error ErrorMessage number ErrorNumber -- oops
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to TempTID
error ErrorMessage number ErrorNumber
end try
end if
return SomeText
end ReplaceText
to ChangeCase of SomeText to CaseType
changes the case or capitalization of SomeText to the specified CaseType using Python
parameters - SomeText [text]: the text to change
CaseType [text]: the type of case desired:
"upper" = all uppercase text
"lower" = all lowercase text
"title" = uppercase character at start of each word, otherwise lowercase
"capitalize" = capitalize the first character of the text, otherwise lowercase
returns [text]: the changed text
set SomeText to SomeText as text
if CaseType is not in {"upper", "lower", "title", "capitalize"} then return SomeText
return (do shell script "/usr/bin/python -c \"import sys; print unicode(sys.argv[1], 'utf8')." & CaseType & "().encode('utf8')\" " & quoted form of SomeText)
end ChangeCase
</pre>
Edit: how does the choose from list dialog handle those big strings? I'm guessing not very well - is that why you avoided using them?
Message was edited by: red_menace

How do I remove all traces of 'album'? I do not want artwork, blank place holders, titles or artists sorted by album? I just want my music listed by title, artist or genre.

How do I remove all traces of 'album'? I do not want artwork, blank place holders, titles or artists sorted by album? I just want my music listed by title, artist or genre.

1, you can't at the moment, though with iOS 5 in the Autumn, from http://www.apple.com/ios/ios5/features.html#photos :
Even organize your photos in albums — right on your device
2, by removing it from you synced from and re-syncing. Only photos taken with the iPad, copied to it via the camera connection kit, or saved from emails/websites etc can be deleted directly on the iPad (either via the trashcan icon in the top right corner if viewing the photo in full screen, or via the icon of the box with the arrow coming out of it in thumbnail view)
3, the location of the photos that you synced to the iPad should be listed on the iPad's Photos tab when connected to your computer's iTunes.
4, you can copy the photos from your iPad to your computer : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4083 . You should also be able to delete them from the iPad as part of the transfer process to your computer, and it's then your choice whether to add them to your sync photo list so as to copy them back to the iPad. Copying them to your computer would allow you to organise them into folders and therefore be able to sync them back into separate albums.
5, I don't use Dropbox either. There are some third-party browser apps in the iTunes App Store that allow you to download pages so that you can view them when offline e.g. Atomic Web (the whole page is saved within Atomic Web, it doesn't place a photo into the Photos app)
6, deleting content should help. If you remove an app from your iPad then you also remove the content that it's got on the iPad - so if you then decide to reinstall it back onto the iPad then you will need to manually add back any content that you want in it. None of the Apple built-in apps (including Photos) can be removed from the iPad

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