{"id":74,"date":"2011-09-23T14:59:18","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T18:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/provideotech.org\/wp\/?p=74"},"modified":"2012-02-02T05:33:09","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T05:33:09","slug":"using-apple-ical-to-schedule-ingest-using-aja-konaio-devices-and-vtrxchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/provideotech.org\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"Using Apple iCal to schedule ingest using AJA Kona\/Io devices and VTRXchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While not optimal, sometimes you don&#8217;t want to spend the extra money to get a robust tool for doing scheduled ingest from companies like <a href=\"http:\/\/softron.tv\" target=\"_blank\">Softron<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toolsonair.com\" target=\"_blank\">ToolsOnAir<\/a>. \u00a0I had an inquiry on how you could do this using the free tools that come with AJA hardware after my write up on <a title=\"Scheduling KiPro recording using Apple iCal\" href=\"https:\/\/provideotech.org\/?p=46\" target=\"_blank\">scheduling the KiPro using iCal<\/a>. Considering that the free download from AJA&#8217;s site, <a title=\"VTRXchange\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aja.com\/ajashare\/AJA_VTR_Xchangev5.zip\" target=\"_blank\">VTR XChange<\/a>, is Applescript capable this task is actually quite easy. \u00a0We don&#8217;t need to write any shells scripts or interact with any command line utilities this time. \u00a0In fact, we only need two scripts in total. \u00a0One will start our VTRXchange Application recording, the second will stop record. Our first script is pretty simple:<\/p>\n<pre>set StartTime to do shell script \"date '+%Y.%m.%d-%H:%M'\"\r\ntell application \"AJA VTR Xchange\"\r\n\tactivate\r\n\tcapture to StartTime &amp; \"-iCalSchedule\"\r\nend tell<\/pre>\n<p>The first statement simply grabs the start time of the recording and uses it to name the file in the second statement. The second statement starts VTRXchange if it isn&#8217;t already running, tells it to start capturing, and names the file in the format YYYY.MM.DD-HH:MM-iCalSchedule.mov Our second script is even easier:<\/p>\n<pre>tell application \"AJA VTR Xchange\"\r\n\tactivate\r\n\tstop capture\r\nend tell<\/pre>\n<p>Save these scripts into ~\/Library\/Scripts as &#8220;Start Kona Capture&#8221; and &#8220;Stop Kona Capture&#8221; respectively. \u00a0 Then use the setup method in the article above on KiPro scheduling to add them to iCal. Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While not optimal, sometimes you don&#8217;t want to spend the extra money to get a robust tool for doing scheduled ingest from companies like Softron or ToolsOnAir. \u00a0I had an inquiry on how you could do this using the free tools that come with AJA hardware after my write up on scheduling the KiPro using &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/provideotech.org\/?p=74\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Using Apple iCal to schedule ingest using AJA Kona\/Io devices and VTRXchange&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aja"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2bwLw-1c","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/provideotech.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/provideotech.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/provideotech.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/provideotech.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/provideotech.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/provideotech.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/provideotech.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/provideotech.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/provideotech.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}