>> Hello.  This is a short how-to movie on AST-Link AppleScript for the Mac.  Step 1 is to download it from our website and place it on your desktop.  Then double click it and unzip it; that should yield you AST_AppleScript folder; please leave that on the desktop.  Let's have a peek at what's inside here.  Two shell scripts and our AppleScript droplet. So we're gonna open the install shell script; control or right click depending on your mouse. And we're gonna open with Terminal.  So let's choose Other.., then we're gonna need to choose All Applications, Utilities and Terminal.  That should launch a window that looks something like this.  

We now need to enter our AST login, something like that; it will now tell us that it has applied the script in this location, and we'll start looking for an SSH key.  If you don't have one or you can't find one, it will ask you about creating one.  If you already have one or you've already installed this application before, it will have told you about overwriting existing scripts up here and it will find existing keys and ask you which one it wants to use, so you might have to input some information there.  But for this example we have not any existing keys since this is our first install; so we simply hit enter three times and it generates a key for us.  Since this is our first time we need to put this key up on the AST server.  We'll just copy that, the whole thing, Command C, go to the AST website, hit SSH Keys in the left hand nav, Add Keys, paste it here, Command V, short note, then click Add Key. It will then show you a status of Pending here and what we need is to wait until that shows up as a status of Ready.  That could take upwards of six minutes; it's not generally problematic because we only need to do this once, but something to know before you proceed with the Terminal shell script that's going on.  It needs it to be in the status of Ready.  

So while we're waiting for that to be Ready, we'll basically mention a couple of important things.  First off is Application Type. We need to go to the default Application Type and make sure that's set what we want to use for the AppleScript.  In this case we've got Web set and if we want to change to like Broadcast, we would see it would change to "Save as default" here.  But let's leave it at Web and if you only have one Application Type, you don't even have to worry about that.  You won't see this Application Type in the left hand nav at all.  We go to Web and we know we're at Web because it says Web down here at the bottom, and the next thing to take into account is Advanced Settings.  

Basically all the settings for our AST-Link AppleScript submissions pull the settings from the default app and the Advanced Settings on that default app.  And here are the Advanced Settings defaults which we see: line length 70, Verdana, Medium, this sort of thing.  We can also make some modifications here, for example, if we don't need chapter data and we don't need karaoke output, then we basically make those as "Save above as default" and then click Apply Changes.  And that's pretty much all there is to it.  Ok another thing of note is that submissions will show up under Reports in the left hand nav here, so if we go to Reports we will see submissions that have been submitted by the AppleScript droplet.  Keep in mind there may be a delay of up to four or five minutes after you've submitted them and when they show up here.  So keep that in mind but you should be able to see the full details on your AppleScript droplet submissions here.  

So now let's check for our SSH key has been updated to the status of Ready.  So now let's click SSH Keys in the left hand nav here and we observe that it is yes indeed Ready.  So we can basically close this window here and now it is looking for us to hit enter.  So we do so and the first time it connects we need to verify that we are connecting to the right machine.  So we need to see that this connection ID string here matches this connection ID string, or fingerprint here and it does indeed, so we type "yes"; and then that's added to our list of known hosts and the instructions then say we should enter "bye" and we're done.  So we can now quit Terminal, Command Q and drop our droplet onto the desktop, close folder, take the folder and the zip file and delete those; now we're ready to go.  

So essentially you can just drag and drop media files and or associated text transcript if you have them with the same base name.  So for example it would be money_hi.txt that's associated with this WMV here and just drop those onto the droplet.  When we do so it will ask us if we'd like to have notes for the transcribers; in this case we say No and it starts uploading.  We'll note the script is on the bottom here on the dock and when it's done the script will disappear off the dock, and you can then drop other applications or other media files on there.  If you drop a folder, it will take the folder's name as the batch identifier; so for example we've got a couple of lectures in here and basically they will all be associated with the batch identifier CompSci 101, so if we drop up that on there; again it will ask us if we have notes for the transcriber and those will apply to all the files that we've dropped on this particular droplet at this time.  So let's say Yes and let's say "Speaker name is Bob Jenssen" like that, click OK and again our script is running here on the dock.  If you want to see what exactly is going on, watch what's going on in that file folder and we noticed there was lecture 1.sub and lecture 1.cmd and those went away when lecture 1 was uploaded.  The same thing is going on here for lecture 2 and those will go away when it's done and the script will disappear from the dock; so be patient, don't try and kill the application that's running.  

So it's all done, exited successfully and you would now be able to see your results within the next five or six minutes up on the website.  If you have any questions, feel free to give us a shout.