On 8/5/08 03:44, Thomas McGrath III wrote:
I too was looking into Core transitions which you know we have already
in Rev and was trying to make use of some of the built-in features of
OSX in Applescript. But no luck. It turns out that the Quartz Filters
are only available at this time through Xcode and Aperature, then I
found that Automator also has internal access to these filters. But they
are not scriptable. The applescript dictionaries for a lot of these new
system wide features is half done. There are references to future
scriptability for most of them. The difference was that Image effects
are apple scriptable and Core transitions are already in Rev but these
Quartz Composition Filters are not!!!
So, I thought why not just build the Automator workflows and turn them
into apps. Then call those apps from applescript from within Rev. But
still they won't work directly on an image while it is in Rev but rather
I am using rev to show the image, then save the image, then run the
automator filter on the image and lastly reload the image and offer the
user to save the new image file. It felt like cheating at first but then
I realized that in RR these images are editable and savable and usable
and this is not that different than doing all of this in an offscreen
buffer, not really. Also multiple filters can be applied to the same
image with very interesting results. Twirl will build upon Twirl over
and over. I have been playing with this all day, it is very addictive.
On to your issues: Two things, The first is you may have to apply the
filter twice, do it once to initiate the process and then apply it
again. This is just with the larger files because of the time the
Automator app takes to run and in Rev I only put in a four minute wait.
Tom,
Many thanks for contributing this. Could I also solicit your (and other)
votes for:
http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=3055
Which is to extend the Core Image support currently in Rev, from Transitions
only to include Effects.
Cheers,
- Ben
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