On 30 jun 2010, at 20:48, [email protected] wrote:
> On 2010-06-30 11:24 , Daniel Israel wrote: >> I have an application that takes a video file, analyzes it, and produces >> some output. Works great, but the only problem is that it takes a >> LOOOONG time. What I'd like to do is some sort of batch processing. I'd >> like to dump all the videos in a folder and sometime in the middle of >> the night when I'm not using the machine for anything else, it will go >> feed all those videos to my program, then after processing, copy the >> video and the output file to another folder. >> >> Is there some way to do this with automater? (I have never used it) > > what specifically is this application, one you wrote? is it AppleScriptable? > if not does it work automatically when a video file is dropped on it? or does > it have a "watched folder" concept? or can it be scripted from the shell? one > of these conditions would have to be met in order to build an automated > workflow, whether it be via Automator or another approach > You can get a similar script from Automator with the preinstalled Preview.app and a bunch of photo files. I didn't know much of anything about Automator scripting nor AppleScript-ing and assembelled such a photo processing script by trial and error in a few tens of minitues. If you try to do such a script (with Preview.app) you should get a good understanding of what your video application would need to implement in terms of Automator-actions/Scripting. // John Stalberg_______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
