[Bart Gloudemans]

I’m looking into Traffic right now. Looks very promising and probably exactly what I’m looking for.
Though the forum seems to be flooded with spam since september 2007 and I get a 404 on clicking ‘download update’. Do you have any experience with their support/community/reliability?

[Bart Gloudemans]

Of course!

(btw, I’m more a programmer than an editor, I’m figuring this out for my collegue who will do the editing)

Reading the file properties is the first thing. I already figured that out. Indeed just a few keystrokes.
Now I need to insert some of the values (name & duration in frames) into an XML document. For the document I will use a previously exported FCP-XML file. It describes the template-timeline-edit in FCP, I’ll use that XML file as a template.
Haven’t looked into it yet, though I don’t expect it to be very hard to ouput an XML file by applescript. Steven Gonzales already mentioned above I might need Perl (or a language alike) for that. If anyone can shed some light on whether it is possible to ouput a file by applescript.

The XML file will be manually imported into FCP where the render-button will be hit.
In FCP the edit roughly looks like a background with different movies laying on top. Movies that run out will be replaced by new ones. Because their length differs I need to adjust their length in the XML file. (arring this is a potentional bottleneck)

I hope this clarifies the setting, maybe a bit too elaborate.
What I would like to know most is: is it feasible to implement?

[Bart Gloudemans]

Thanks!
Didn’t know about Shake, sounds good. I’ll take a look into the trail version.

Meanwhile: does anybody a comment on my XML plans? Would it be worth the shot?

Bart