Applescript Select Camera

Cliff Cheney

• August 16, 2016 20:41

I am attempting to use Applescript to switch between two connected cameras in Capture One 8.

Has anyone been able to do this?

I could really use some example code of how the Select Camera command from the C1 8 Applescript dictionary is used.

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  Cliff Cheney

  • August 16, 2016 22:31

  It took way too many tries… But, i seem to be partially there with the formatting.
  
  
tell application "Capture One 8"
activate
tell document 1
select camera name "Nikon D810"
capture
end tell
end tell

  
  I am still unclear how the tell document should be formatted and if I run it twice it drops one of the cameras.

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  Cliff Cheney

  • August 16, 2016 22:32

  I also need to populate a variable with all available cameras and then be able to select the correct camera.

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  Cliff Cheney

  • August 16, 2016 22:45

  Making headway. I manually created an array. but, I will have problems if I use two of the same model… Unless C1 will give them unique names. This is why I need the list to be read from C1 itself.
  
  
(choose from list {"Nikon D810", "Nikon D610"} with prompt "Select camera")
set selCamera to result as text

tell application "Capture One 8"
activate
tell document 0
select camera name selCamera
end tell
end tell


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  Cliff Cheney

  • September 05, 2016 18:21

  I've looked at the log files and I can't find a more unique way to describe the two cameras in an Applescript than using their model names. The camera switching works well using Aptivate to assign a key for each script. You can't switch them quickly. But, at a normal working pace it works.
  
  Does anyone know a way to uniquely describe two cameras of the same model?
  
  I may have to cheat and use D800 & D810s or D600 & D610s… Not ideal. But it may work until I get a better solution.

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