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macOS Automator to find and move videos with different codecs

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punktilend

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Jul 10, 2008
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Hello,

I have been digging around to find a way to use automator with Final Cut Pro X. Once I have exported/shared a file to a folder from FCX I have it open a Automator application that moves the video file to another location. My problem is that I export different codecs and I need the different codecs to go to different locations. Does anyone know of a way to have automator choose a file by its codec?
 
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kryten2

macrumors 65816
Mar 17, 2012
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Belgium
Take a look at the mdls and mdfind commands in Terminal.

NAME
mdls -- lists the metadata attributes for the specified file

NAME
mdfind -- finds files matching a given query

EXAMPLES

This returns all files that contain "MyFavoriteAuthor" in the kMDItemAuthor meta-
data attribute:

mdfind "kMDItemAuthor == '*MyFavoriteAuthor*'"
Click to expand...

In Automator use the Find Finder Items action.

Note : Tested on Leopard.
 

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