I'm
finally starting to play around with Automator to help speed some repetitive tasks around our little studio. One thing that we do a lot these days is 1) Creating a web-sized file from a QT movie output, and 2) FTP'ing said files to a certain directory of our server. Most commonly, we're going to 3IVX (<3ivx.xom>
as that's what our current client likes.
So far, I've been able to hack out an Automator workflow, attached to two directories via Folder Actions, convert via a Compressor Droplet, and FTP upload to our server (via a nice third party FTP Automator plugin) when any QT file is dropped into a certain folder. But it's obviously a bit convoluted. I wish there was a simple, cool, QT export/conversion plugin that I could drop into Automator that would make this whole thing easier. So any Applescript geniuses out there, well, there's demand for it!
Next on my list is to find a way to have certain parties automagically emailed with the link to the uploaded files when they arrive.
- Justin Barham -