nab wrote:Dale, I will send the source codes and some notes to dale(at)creative-workflow-hacks(dot)com (give me two or three days..).

sounds great, I appreciate your efforts.

Dale

Hey nab,

Care to share the source and I'll compile a Mac version?

Dale

Thanks again for the help, I wasn't aware of the "" trick! And thank you for the wonderful script too, nab! Shralldam, Glad it worked for you. The \ character escapes the next character in Unix, so you can use the next character as a literal instead of feeding it to the command interprete...

Shralldam wrote:So, what's the "path" to this file under Mac OS X?

Hey Shrallldam,

I don't have time to test this right now but the path is

....Two words: Text Properties. agreed ....more ui elements agreed, at least adopt the Bridge standards i.e. pictures in the UI add, better event handling and console output that is consistent and attractive access scripts with key commands and allow access to different menu areas other than the Scr...

nice sleuthing Nab!

Dale

Hi All, I've update timecodereader.zip at: http://www.creative-workflow-hacks.com/downloads/timecodereader.zip I'm basically checking all mount points and adding /Volumes when appropriate, unfortunately the response is a bit slower if you have disk images or a lot of volumes mounted. If anybody know...

Lloyd, It's that discrepancy I need to account for. Accounting for all the path combinations and screen munging has been challenging in several of these AE/FCP/QT projects. One workaround, if you need to use this on a working project immediately before I can wrangle paths is to do something like... ...

Hi Llloyd, Is this one... Lloyd-G5:~ lloyd$ timecodereader /Untitled/Capture%20Scratch/cam%20test/city-hall from After Effects? When I drop a file from an external drive I get /Volumes/ as my first path and get \ file as an escape for spaces instead of %20 like so... /Volumes/pocketDrive/Green3\ Alp...

Hey lloyd,

I'm going to have to dig into this one.. OSX treats paths differently depending on whether it's a user folder, mounted volume, etc. and it looks like I missed one.

Thanks for the feedback, I'll post back here once I work it out.

Thanks again,

Dale

Hi lloyd, Can you do a couple of things for me? First... 1.Launch terminal 2.type timecodereader and then hit the space bar 3. drop the QT in question on the terminal window 4. hit return do you get a timecode or bus error? We dropped the file to get a fully escaped path to the QT. If you get a bus ...

Hey guys,

I've got what I think is a working solution for this problem posted here:

http://www.creative-workflow-hacks.com/ ... -solution/

If you would, can you take a look and see if it works for you?

Best,

Dale

Hey Byron,

There are some gems in that script. I do a lot of element tapes and there are some nice ideas here.

Still hoping that we get more control over text layers in the next AE version.

Best,

Dale

Hi fisher, You might look at my post at: http://www.creative-workflow-hacks.com/2006/06/08/how-to-use-a-spreadsheet-to-generate-lower-thirds-slates-titles-etc-in-after-effects/ and see if that's moving in the right direction. If it sort of moves in the right direction, but needs some changes why don...

I'm not sure if Kyle is still checking for this script, but I went ahead and gave this one a shot. I posted the results here...
http://www.creative-workflow-hacks.com/ ... r-effects/

Hope it's still useful.