Seeking a Bridge scripter

Hi All:
I'm currently looking for a freelancer to write a quick Bridge script for me. If you could handle the job--or know someone who could--could you please shoot me a quote at [email protected]? I have some budget, and want to pay fairly.
If you're interested, here's what I'm after. Many thanks for your consideration!
Adam
Adam O'Hern
Industrial Designer / Spitwad Marksman
[email protected]
cadjunkie.com
solidsmack.com
engineervsdesigner.com
Script: Stack Frame
Language: Javascript
Version: CS6
Description:
When doing product renderings, I often render out animations as image sequences, each frame consisting of several layers. Each layer is output as a separate file. For example:
image_finalColor_0001.jpg
image_finalColor_0002.jpg
image_finalColor_0003.jpg
image_Alpha_0001.jpg
image_Alpha_0002.jpg
image_Alpha_0003.jpg
image_SurfID_0001.jpg
image_SurfID_0002.jpg
image_SurfID_0003.jpg
etc.
This script would 'stack' each frame in Bridge, and also create a separate layered PSD file for each, so that the result, in bridge, looks like this:
image_finalColor_0001.jpg [stack]
image_finalColor_0002.jpg [stack]
image_finalColor_0003.jpg [stack]
image_0001.psd
image_0002.psd
image_0003.psd
Requirements:
Two ways to start run the script:
Right-click any file and select 'stack frame' from the drop-down to analyze a single frame
Menubar > Stacks > 'stack frames' to analyze all frames in folder
Beginning with the end of the filename, script loops backward through each character until it finds a number. It then continues back until it finds a non-number, and stops, storing the last number in the filename as the 'frame number'. Examples:
file_0001.jpg => '0001'
file_0001_backplate.jpg => '0001'
file_02_backplate_0001.jpg => '0001'
file_0001_backplate_02.jpg => '02'
Script then searches other files in the folder using the same method, looking for other files with the same frame number. For example, when looking for frame 0001:
file_0001_foreground.jpg => match
file_foreground_0001.jpg => match
file_02_foreground_0001.jpg => match
file_0001_foreground_02.jpg => no match
Script selects all files containing the same frame number, and assigns them to a 'stack' in Bridge.
With the same files selected, script runs the Photoshop 'Load Files into Photoshop Layers' command
Saves resulting layered file as PSD named with the common elements of the filenames (trimming non-alphanumeric chars):
file_0001_background.jpg + file_0001_foreground.jpg = file_0001.psd
file_background_0001.jpg + file_foreground_0001.jpg = file_0001.psd
file_02_background_0001.jpg + file_02_foreground_0001.jpg = file_02_0001.jpg
file_02_background_0001.jpg + file_foreground_0001.jpg = file_0001.jpg
foobar_file_0002_0001.jpg + file_0001_foreground.jpg = file_0001.jpg
Must exit gracefully on error and provide dialog hints where possible (e.g. 'found no matching frames' etc)
Must ignore non-image file formats (to avoid errors in the Photoshop script)
Resulting PSD layers must be in the same order for every frame where possible (so future Batch operations will work across all PSD files). Obviously this only applies if all layers are present for every frame.
Must ROCK MAJORLY HARD!!
Thanks again!

I use Final Cut Pro; keyframing the motion, scaling, etc as needed.
But there's also many other programs available, to name a few:
iMovie
Still Life
Photo to Movie
Motion Pictures
-DH

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