.... Secondly, is there a way to parse the filename to convert it into something more legible? So 0507230004461.jpg would translate into July 23, 2005 - 12:10 AM? I would need to have the expression look at the correct set of digits and do the translation. Okay, I'll bite parseDateString('0507230004...

Lloyd, ...so it's being stored somewhere It's definitely in the xml representation of the project. My idea is to set up a tool, "bake metadata" in FCP. It would gather the useful info from the project and place that info in each QT. To do this you'd write a .bundle plugin and adhere to the...

Lloyd, ...I found this little app on the apple website I don't think this app will help you unless you've somehow gotten FCP to write a timecode track that incorporates media in/media out from the source tape. When I look at the captured QT's from FCP the TC track is in relation to the media, not th...

I don't think it is natively acesssible via scripting. An idea i've been playing with is to use the new Quicktime Metadata API http://developer.apple.com/documentation/QuickTime/Conceptual/QT7Win_Update_Guide/Chapter02/chapter_2_section_9.html to bake in the timecode from FCP xml and then deducing t...

Hey Byron, You might want to have a look at what drew trujillo is doing at Dr. Woohoo: http://www.inthemod.com/bps/?p=52 He's iterating through layer properties and exporting to flash. The export script is free and he's charging for the Flash Component. He's using simple writeln to coerce XML. Most ...

thanks for the feedback... I'm trying to strike a balance between tools for users and information/tutorials for other developers. What I'm thinking about doing is putting the demos together as web apps and keeping the tutorials a little more technical. I'll be posting the next in the series soon and...

It's been a while since this was posted, but a quick search didn't turn up a reply to... The second one I would like to see is a script that automates the "Guess Pulldown Pattern" in the interpret footage dialogue. We bring a lot of edits in from Final Cut and it's a real pain to have to p...

Hi all, I've started a series of tutorials on moving elements between Final Cut Pro and After Effects using FCP-XML and JSON. It's available at http://www.creative-workflow-hacks.com/category/after-effects/ It's a bit of a first draft. I'm still fleshing out some file path issues and working on the ...