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[Justin Snavely <question164015@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

New question #164015 on Sikuli:
https://answers.launchpad.net/sikuli/+question/164015

Very beginning Python student who is using Sikuli to automate Video editing in Final Cut Pro on Mac (SL 10.6.7). I record psychiatric sessions of patients, and give them a copy of the video so I can get their release to use it for training. I typically create a final cut project for each client, add a quick title, import my video paths into the project, and dump those videos onto a timeline and export the timeline as a video into the source folder that the original videos came from. 

So far, I have successfully started final Cut Pro, created a project, created a title and added it to the timeline, and saved the project to the desktop using an assigned variable from the start of the script. I am relying on keyboard shortcuts in FCP to do this, as FCP has no applescript or Automator functionality. 

However, I'm stuck after that. If I try to import video into the project, how do I tell finder where to go, without choreographing the whole thing? This would include me telling Sikuli how to navigate through Finder to get to the file location for each patient's video files using ONLY TAB and the arrow keys. That sounds horribly retarded and not very efficient. This would also have to be changed when I export my video file. 


I would like to be able to just create a small configuration text file with 1) the patient name, 2)the title for the video, 3)the file paths to the video resources,  4)the destination for the FCP project to be saved, 5)as well as the destination for the final exported video. 

So, my questions are:
1) should I only use Sikuli for this?
2) How do I instruct Sikuli to navigate the finder window?
3) What is the best way for me to import my variables into my Sikuli project? Is that done with a .csv file? XML? Or something less elegant?

Any help (or just tell me the names of the areas that I need to read about) in order to accomplish this would be ever so appreciated. 

This is my script as is: 
client = "Henry3";
Title = client + "\n Demo with therapist \nLocation, State\nMonth Year"
#def initFCP(client, Title); Not using this currently. 
	switchApp ("Final Cut Pro.app");
#Unused currently, but I will create a if/else command to see if final cut is open already
#	openApp ("Final Cut Pro.app");
#	wait (15);
	type("4", KEY_CMD); #Special command)
	type("w", KEY_CTRL); #Close any other open project
	type("n", KEY_CMD+KEY_SHIFT); #New Project
	wait(1);
	type("s", KEY_CMD+KEY_SHIFT); #"Save As"
	wait( );#"Save window" image
	type(client + Key.ENTER);
	type("x", KEY_CTRL); #brings up title editor
	type("]",KEY_SHIFT+KEY_CMD);#FCP command to get to input field
	type(Key.TAB);#drops cursor into edit field"
	type(Title);
	type(Key.TAB);
	type(Key.F9);#adds title to timeline
	type("s", KEY_CMD)
	type("e", KEY_SHIFT+KEY_CMD) #export video

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