[Brian Prom]

In talking to the Omneon tech suppport about our issue, this is what I learned.

Apple made a change to AFP in Leopard that made it in-compatiable with the Omneon. Omneon has a solution, however it requires a firmware upgrade (that they will charge us for). However, there are 2 other software companies (Microfirst and OSI) that tie into the Omneon as well that would need upgrades to be compatible with the new Omneon firmware. We stopped researching this option there as the Omneon, Microfirst, and OSI were a pain to get to work together from the beginning and are the central heart throb of our station being on air and handling billing. I figured it’d be less detrimental to our stations operations to pursue getting our edit stations modified.

I’m currently using Cyberduck to manually FTP files, but I’m still in search of a solution from within FCP that I can export the files and have them FTP’d on their own.

But the moral of the story is that an upgrade of OS and FCP version is giving me headaches. As if we haven’t all heard that story before… ha!

[Brian Prom]

I have used Fetch in the past. But given that FCP can handle FTP, OS X can handle FTP (all included in my already purchased software) I don’t feel like coughing up more $$ (and getting approval AGAIN from management).

I don’t think what I’m trying to do is all that unheard of to be honest, I don’t see any reason to throw more $$ at it.

Plus I’m using Cyberduck for free as my FTP software and it works wonderfully. But it doesn’t have the Automator feature like Fetch does.

Plus I’m still confused why Folder Actions don’t work. I have the Automator working fine, but the Folder Actions don’t trigger. So having Fetch isn’t going to help me anyway. And yes, I do have the “Enable Folder Actions” checkbox checked.

[Brian Prom]

Thank you for the Fetch suggestion. I’ve found a free automator script that does what Fetch does. https://www.editkid.com/upload_to_ftp/

I’m starting to realize that I think I have a deeper problem though. I’m noticing that my folder actions don’t run. If I run the Automator script manually all works well and good. But when I set it up as a folder action on a new, empty folder, export a QT file to that folder, nothing it won’t run. I set up my Automator script to display some messages along the way to confirm that it is running; and they don’t appear. But again, if I manually run that script it does what it should.

So anyone know why my folder actions would not work in 10.6.3??

[Brian Prom]

I thought this might be the winner, but not so…

First off it has a glitch with OS X 10.6.3, which I later found a fix for in the support pages.

However that still didn’t want to connect to my in house Omneon playback server via FTP. I’m using Cyberduck right now (Freeware FTP) to do a manual transfer… but again I’m trying to find a solution to automate this whole process.

[Brian Prom]

Thanks… this is more for sending across the internet to clients, reviews, etc.

[Brian Prom]

Have you looked at the file permissions? Do a “Get Info” on the containing folder, set them to Read & Write and apply that the the enclosed files. That might work.

Also make sure you are doing a copy and not a move when you transfer them to the second drive.

[Brian Prom]

Understood… but I’m hoping to accomplish this all from within FCP so that I don’t need to go to the Finder or have a mess of files all over the place. The more automation the better.

Like I said, in the past I was able to export all files directly to where they need to go. Now I’m having to export them locally and then transfer them, and rely on my editors remembering to delete the temporary files. Since we do 20 or so of these a day, the simpler I can make this the better.

We use the Batch Export feature in FCP typically. FCP can figure out how to transfer a file to YouTube (I’m assuming via FTP). Likewise, Compressor can export to FTP. How can I get the FTP capability in Batch Export??

[Brian Prom]

Do you recall where you found this script? I could REALLY use it right about now…

Thanks.

[Brian Prom]

I appreciate the suggestions but neither of the answers are suitable for my situation. Thank you though. Hopefully FCP6 is in the cards soon…