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I need some help with a shell script. I'm trying to get Hazel to trigger Compressor to automatically convert image sequences to quicktime videos. I know how to use Compressor's Command Line functions, but Im having trouble getting a shell script from Hazel to feed into it. Basically, I only need two parameters for Hazel to feed the shell script. This is the shell script that will run successfully from Terminal.

/Applications/Compressor.app/Contents/MacOS/Compressor -computergroup "This Computer" -jobpath ~/Desktop/Hazel\ Watch\ Folder/VideoFolderToConvert/ -settingpath ~/Library/Application\ Support/Compressor/Settings/ProRes_4444.cmprstng -locationpath ~/Desktop/Hazel\ Watch\ Folder/VideoFolderToConvert.mov

So I need Hazel to fill the jobpath and locationpath. Jobpath is the folder that triggers Hazel to run when it gets added to the watch folder, so that should just be $1, right? The locationpath needs to turn the jobpath folder name into foldername.mov.

Hopefully that all makes sense. I think it should be something easy for someone good at shell scripting, but I'm just learning. Thanks for your help.

Yes, "$1" (don't forget to put double-quotes around it) has the full path from which you should derive the rest.

Thank you for the quick response. Please forgive my ignorance as I'm new to shell scripting. How would I use "$1" to derive the second variable which is the parent folder of "$1" + "/" + name of "$1" + ".mov"?

Look up "dirname". That will give you the directory name. From there, you can combine that with the rest to form a new pathname.

Thanks for your help!