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Help with automation script (2 posts)

• Started 13 years ago by Help with fetch and automation
• Latest reply 13 years ago from Jim Matthews

• Help with fetch and automation Member

  Hello, I am trying to make an automator workflow that takes a movie file, runs a little script to convert to ogv file, then uploads them to my server using Fetch. Below you can see the screenshot of what I have:
  <img src="http://emberapp.com/memincalcetin/images/convert-to-ogv-workflow-1/sizes/m.png" title="convert to ogv.workflow" />
  Right now what this does is it will convert the m4v file to ogv and ONLY upload the m4v file. I want the script to give the output of the conversion, the ogv file ALSO to the UPLOAD FILES command, not just the m4v file. Is there a small addition to the script i could do to make this happen?

  Posted 13 years ago #

• Jim Matthews Administrator

  Hi,

  You need your script action to output both the file that was passed to it, and the ogv file you created. To do that you need to turn the name of the input file into the name of the created file (i.e. replace the m4v extension with ogv).

  I do not know how to do this in shell programming, but the following AppleScript should work in a Run AppleScript action:

  on POSIXPathOfFileWithNewExtension(inFile, inNewExtension)
  set oldExtension to name extension of (info for inFile)
  set oldExtensionLength to length of oldExtension
  set oldPath to POSIX path of inFile
  set oldPathLength to length of oldPath
  set newPath to ((characters 1 thru (oldPathLength - oldExtensionLength) of oldPath) as string) & inNewExtension
  return newPath
  end POSIXPathOfFileWithNewExtension

  on run {input, parameters}

  set outputItems to {}

  repeat with oneFile in input
  set outputItems to outputItems & {contents of oneFile}

  set filePath to POSIX path of oneFile
  do shell script "/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg2theora '" & filePath & "'"

  set newFilePath to POSIXPathOfFileWithNewExtension(oneFile, "ogv") of me
  set outputItems to outputItems & {POSIX file newFilePath}
  end repeat

  return outputItems
  end run

  Thanks,

  Jim Matthews
  Fetch Softworks

  Posted 13 years ago #