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Update
Just a quick update. If your computer is already getting a DV stream via FireWire when iMovie launches, iMovie appears to automatically switch from edit to camera mode, so the following portion of the start script is redundant.
Also, I'm finding that I have to put a pause in the script to ensure that iMovie is ready for its buttons to be pushed. :-) So you might want to include something like this between the two tell blocks:
Finally, I'm finding iKey to be a bit buggy with it's timer feature, so I've resorted to using cron and osascript instead. It appears to be more trustworthy as a VCR timer.
"do shell script sleep"? why not just...
"delay 5"?
"do shell script sleep"? why not just...
If you take a look at your cpu usage for the two commands you'll find that
churns up far less of your Mac than
Try it! :)
Precisely!
I use "sleep" instead of "delay" for the very reason Jim states above. In fact, I search these hints while writing the AppleScript because I had this vague nagging feeling there was something bad about "delay". |
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