Why are files from Compressor empty?

I figured what's happening. I made a really long test video. The script starts trying to move it via FTP before Compressor finishes writing it. Any cool ideas about how to handle that?

It appears that attaching an AppleScript to the end of processing is gone in this new version of Compressor. As a bit of a compromise, I made my action into a service that I can run by right-clicking the file Compressor outputs. It's a little easier than opening Filezilla and less typing than going through Terminal.

I'll give this a shot today!

Okay, I know I'm about to get outside the scope of the question, but I need some help with the script to do this. Here's what I have:

for f in "$@"

do

# Get the file size, wait 30 seconds, and get it again.

filesize1=(stat -f%z "$f")

sleep 30

filesize2=(stat -f%z "$f")

# Until both file size values are the same, do nothing.

until [ "$filesize1" -eq "$filesize2" ]; do

# Get the file size, wait 30 seconds, and get it again.

filesize1=(stat -f%z "$f")

sleep 30

filesize2=(stat -f%z "$f")

done

# Rename the file to have the extension required by the Nexus.

g="${f%.mpeg}.mpg"

mv "$f" "$g"

# Send the file to the Nexus.

curl -T "$g" ftp://1.2.3.4/Vol123456-01/MPEG/ --user me:secret

# Move the file to the folder with completed items.

mv "$g" "/Users/jcoulson/Nexus Sent"

done

I guess I've created an infinite loop because my script runs forever and never gets anywhere.

Thanks in advance!

It appears that I'm not getting the value of the file size at all. I've taken this out of Automator altogether while I write it. Here's what I now have:

#!/bin/bash

function get_file_size {

# Get size, wait, get size.

filesize1=$(stat -f%z "$f")

sleep 20

filesize2=$(stat -f%z "$f")

echo $filesize1

echo $filesize2

perform_the_test

}

function perform_the_test {

if [[ $filesize1 -eq $filesize2 ]]

then

# move_the_file

echo "The same!"

else

echo "Not the same!"

get_file_size

fi

}

function move_the_file {

# Rename the file to have the extension required by the Nexus.

g="${f%.mpeg}.mpg"

mv "$f" "$g"

# Send the file to the Nexus.

curl -T "$g" ftp://1.2.3.4/Vol-01/MPEG/ --user me:secret

# Move the file to the folder with completed items.

# mv "$g" "/Users/jcoulson/Nexus Sent"

}

for f in "/Users/jcoulson/Nexus Transfer/"

do

get_file_size

done

If I run this, the value for filesize1 and filesize2 is 136. If I change stat -f%z "$f" so that $f is actually the path to the file ("/Users/jcoulson/Nexus Transfer/Test.mpeg"), I get a completely different number -- the actual size of the file.

Final script. It works okay. Pretty frustrating mess. Now I've got it working, but it copies every file in the folder -- including that awful hidden .dsstore file. If Compressor used to perform FTP on its own or would support invoking an AppleScript at the end of processing, why would Apple have removed that feature? I've spent two days now trying to write this script and I think it's time to give up and just FTP the videos manually.

function get_file_size {

# Get size, wait, get size

filesize1=$(stat -f%z "$f")

sleep 20

filesize2=$(stat -f%z "$f")

echo $filesize1

echo $filesize2

perform_the_test

}

function perform_the_test {

if [[ $filesize1 -eq $filesize2 ]]

then

echo "The same!"

move_the_file

else

echo "Not the same!"

get_file_size

fi

}

function move_the_file {

# Rename the file to have the extension required by the Nexus.

g="${f%.mpeg}.mpg"

mv "$f" "$g"

# Send the file to the Nexus.

curl -T "$g" ftp://1.2.3.4/Vol-01/MPEG/ --user me:secret

# Move the file to the folder with completed items.

# mv "$g" "/Users/jcoulson/NexusSent"

}

for f in /Users/jcoulson/NexusTransfer/*

do

get_file_size

done

BUT, I appreciate your help!