macOS Help w/ Automator changes in Lion please?

[WannaApple?]

I had previously posted this elsewhere with no response until I saw the programming board, so maybe I can get some help here?

I am trying to set up an automator script to export my .avi movies to .m4v so I can import them into iTunes to watch on my ATV2, but I just now realized that Automator changed in Lion and the 'export movies' action is now gone!

I'm still a novice at Automator, so can anyone help with the new actions needed to convert my files? So far, I have a 'Find Finder Items' action to search for all .avi files, then I had temporarily put in a 'Encode Media' action, but I'm not too sure how this one works. Which other actions would I need to get this to work? I don't know enough about AppleScript to be able to write it from scratch. Any help please? Thanks!

 

[stomer]

There's an Encode Media file service built-in to Lion

Right click on any video file and select Services > Encode Selected Video Files

See:
http://macosxautomation.com/lion/automatorservices.html



If you need more flexibility, you could use an Automator action that I wrote myself: https://github.com/paulgrav/Handbrake-Automator-Action It uses Handbrake to encode the video.

 

[benzer]

I am having the same problem

I had previously posted this elsewhere with no response until I saw the programming board, so maybe I can get some help here?

I am trying to set up an automator script to export my .avi movies to .m4v so I can import them into iTunes to watch on my ATV2, but I just now realized that Automator changed in Lion and the 'export movies' action is now gone!

I'm still a novice at Automator, so can anyone help with the new actions needed to convert my files? So far, I have a 'Find Finder Items' action to search for all .avi files, then I had temporarily put in a 'Encode Media' action, but I'm not too sure how this one works. Which other actions would I need to get this to work? I don't know enough about AppleScript to be able to write it from scratch. Any help please? Thanks!

stomer,
I imported the handbrake.encode.action but it does not appear in my automaton library? how do i find it?