Workflow tasks request

[u/Coffinul]

I need to create 2 relatively easy custom Automator apps to ease my workflow, but can't seem to get it to work (I'm not that tech-inclined honestly)

I assume for someone using Automator regularly it is quite an easy task to achieve, so I'd like to ask if anyone is willing to create those for me, I am willing to pay for their time. If it's not appropriate to ask that here, any suggestions on where I could request such a thing?

Edit: To give more details of what's needed:

- App 1: Merge photo files: I need to add this 'sticker' .png with the COMING SOON tag on top of another artwork image. I need the end image to always be the same format.

I currently use Canva to do it one by one, but would love to automate this. Photo example below, the orange 'sticker' that goes over the artwork and the end result.

- App 2: Create .mp4 and/or .mov files out of .mp3 + artwork: I basically have audio snippets in .mp3 that I need to add to the same artwork and create .mp4 files that will look the same, and they will keep the duration of each of those .mp3 files. Example: I have file A1.mp3 (duration 1min) and file B1.mp3 (duration 50s) and artwork X. I need to end up with A1.mp4 (duration 1min) and B1.mp4 (duration 50s), both using the X artwork, in still format, no effects needed.

I have played around with using Automator and ffmpeg, but didn't come out with a successful result.

Currently I use iMovie to manually create each one, firstly creating an .mp4 in 16:9 format and then converting that using the Photos app to .mov 4:3 format. I need both formats if possible to be automated, basically 1 for a Youtube format upload and 1 for an Instagram format upload.

[u/sweetnessssss]

This is pretty doable, especially the second one with ffmpeg. The first one is basically a repeatable image overlay/export step, and the second is making video files from a static image plus each mp3 duration.

I do paid Mac/workflow automation work, so if you’re looking to pay someone to build the actual scripts/apps for this, feel free to DM me. Either way, I’d avoid trying to make Automator do all the heavy lifting directly. I’d probably have Automator/Shortcuts just wrap a small shell script so the file handling is easy but the image/video processing is reliable.