Premiere Pro Beta has support for Open Timeline IO interchage format (OTIO). Our current implementation includes the basic information for interchange with other products that support the OTIO standard: names cutlist with clips at correct place in sequence source in/out durations starting timecode and timecode formats fps multiple tracks track names linear speed sequence markers (start time, duration, name, color) Premiere Pro's OTIO support includes Premiere round-tripping information as well: clip markers (start time, duration, comments, name, color). Seqence frame size Sequence sample rate When importing OTIO files created outside of Premiere Pro, some sequence settings may not transfer automatically and will require manual adjustment. To export a sequence to OTIO, go to File menu/Export/OpenTimelineIO. To import an OTIO sequence, go to File menu/Import or use the Media Browser. Please give OTIO Import and Export a try and let us know what kind of workflows you want to use this for. Let us know what we are missing.

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[Now Released] OTIO Import and Export

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October 23, 2024
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Premiere Pro Beta has support for Open Timeline IO interchage format (OTIO). Our current implementation includes the basic information for interchange with other products that support the OTIO standard:

names
cutlist with clips at correct place in sequence
source in/out
durations
starting timecode and timecode formats
fps
multiple tracks
track names
linear speed
sequence markers (start time, duration, name, color)

Premiere Pro's OTIO support includes Premiere round-tripping information as well:

clip markers (start time, duration, comments, name, color).
Seqence frame size
Sequence sample rate

When importing OTIO files created outside of Premiere Pro, some sequence settings may not transfer automatically and will require manual adjustment.

To export a sequence to OTIO, go to File menu/Export/OpenTimelineIO.

To import an OTIO sequence, go to File menu/Import or use the Media Browser.

Please give OTIO Import and Export a try and let us know what kind of workflows you want to use this for. Let us know what we are missing.

Feature request

Correct answer Bruce Bullis

Is Adobe's on there? I don't see any logos. Resolve was the first of the NLEs to support OTIO, then Avid added a tech preview and now Adobe. Reading some of the OTIO materials there is a lot of mention about VFX workflows so I hope that doesn't become the predominant use for it. We really could use a modern interchange between NLEs.

> Is Adobe's on there? I don't see any logos.

https://www.aswf.io/members/

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n33242363oec7

Participant

"When importing OTIO files created outside of Premiere Pro, some sequence settings may not transfer automatically and will require manual adjustment."

The whole point of otio is not habving to do this and atleas being sure of what settings are transferred and wich settings are not.
Could you be so kind to provide a list of supported/not supported settings ?
so that people wont shun people working with adobe ?

Bruce Bullis

Community Manager

> Could you be so kind to provide a list of supported/not supported settings ?

No, because that list will vary based on the app(s) with which you're interchanging, over which we have zero control.

We'd be happy to look into specific interchange issues.

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pedrol21348335

Participating Frequently

Hey Bruce!

Any idea on when will it be available on the official release? How far are we? I'm building some apps that'd greatly benefit from a direct OTIO export from premiere!

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Trevor_Asq

Legend

Be really cool to have multicam sequence exchange via OTIO.

Particularly PP -> Resolve

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Francis Qureshi

Participant

This is super exciting and I hope we see lovely feature rich OTIO import/export soon!

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christian_2828

Participant

When will OTIO follow in After Effects?

Please don't get the idea... the After Effects artist
can go over Premiere Pro to After Effects!

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christian_2828

Participant

We do not neat OpenTimelineIO in a beta Premiere,

we need it in a real Version from After Effects and Premiere Pro.

Bruce Bullis

Community Manager

OTIO support will move from PPro beta to official releases, when the functionality and quality are up to a release standard. We're not there yet. 🙂

After Effects has no current plans to support OTIO; if that'd be useful to you, request it on the AE forums!

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trevor_7307

Known Participant

Great news.

I know it's early days but do you plan to include import/export of OTIOZ (media embedded) and/or OTIOD (media in folders)?

If so will there be a trimmed/consolidated option?

Thanks

Bruce Bullis

Community Manager

Both OTIOZ and OTIOD are under consideration. It will be Some Time™, before we get there. At this point, we have no idea whether there will be any trim or consolidate functionality, distinct from PPro's Project Manager.

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trevor_7307

Known Participant

For me, a robust replacement for Avids consolidated, embedded AAF (that .OTIOZ has potential for) would be useful for archiving short sequences with media- even if it was only fully supported by NLE it was created in initially.

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clement_7191

Participant

Hi,
That is great news, thank you!
Could you please add the basic PPro clip metadata to be exported in the clip metadata of the OTIO file.
I'm refering to the clip "Tape Name", "Description" fields and etc from the Metadata Window.

Best,

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Bruce Bullis

Community Manager

How would that get used, in other OTIO hosts? [We're trying to understand the use case, for when OTIO would be a better vehicle than a PPro project for such info...]

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clement_7191

Participant

One of the main uses case I can think of would be client interactions, as we cannot dictate which Edit software they are using, however, all software more or less support the same metadata keys.

Another use case would be for Asset Management System interactions, metadata are used all way through the production, not only on Edit time. This would mean we can leave breadcrums to be able to follow where a clip comes from.

Basically:

OTIO > PPro would mean to not have to manually enter again the metadata in a PPro project for each clip, minimizing mistakes made.

PPro > OTIO would mean that the metadata agreed/decided by Edit in PPro is available to all consumers of that file.

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ScottSimmons

Community Expert

And just wanted to note some otio testing today on a big show but relatively simple overall resulted in much better results with an XML than OTIO.

eric escobar

Author

Community Manager

Hello Scott!
XML is currently a far more robust interchange format than OTIO, so it makes sense that you're getting better results there. The consortium that is setting the OTIO standards is still very much in the early stages of building a more robust and performant standard. These are the early days of OTIO, please keep telling us what you want to see. I will convey the message!
Best,

Eric

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ScottSimmons

Community Expert

Oh that's interesting. I know some of the OTIO discussions go back years and years so I thought it was much more robust at this point than FCP XML (which itself is pretty dang old). Not that it really went anywhere over the last near decade. Eric, are you saying that now that it's got some agreement of use between the big NLE makers, it's finally going to be developed to be usable?

I think it's obvious what we would want it to carry across, which is any timeline data not proprietary to the NLE.

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ScottSimmons

Community Expert

@eric escobar how does .otio handle file paths for media? Does that travel with the timeline in an otio export?

Bruce Bullis

Community Manager

Yes!

"target_url": "file:///Users/username/Movies/examplemedia.mxf"

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ScottSimmons

Community Expert

Same system, same media locations, OTIO from PPro to Resolve was unable to find most media on a half-hour show, mostly ProRes sources with some music, sound fx and graphics. A Resolve deep search was able to find a lot of the ProRes but nothing else. The XML was able to conform and find most all of the media.

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