Automator Rocks

D'Arcy Norman just discovered that Automator Freaking ROCKS! He has a project on his plate that entails transcoding 9 DVDs worth of TIFFs into JPEG (oof!) and found a rather simple solution: "I just fired up Automator.app, and in less than 60 seconds had whipped up a Workflow that copies all TIFF images from a selected folder (or volume), copies them to a designated folder on my hard drive, then transcodes them to .jpg files. Exactly what I needed. In under a minute."

The actual transcoding will take quite a bit longer, but as D'Arcy notes, the only thing Automator is missing in this process is a way to automatically switch out the DVDs for him. He has a screenshot up of the workflow too. Pretty nice. 
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