Export a timeline as individual clips

Awesome, thank you! For anyone using this method, make sure to select Range - Source In/Out in the export panel, below the preview, before sending to Media Encoder or export.

I had the same problems today and found a solution.

I found a script on this reddit post which automated nesting the individual clips and put them into media encoder for export. With this method you can export them with effects and in a few seconds. https://www.reddit.com/r/premiere/comments/zkwspu/batch_export_clips_in_timeline_automatically/

However the reddit script wasn´t working for me so I fixed it with ChatGPT.

To run the code you will need Visual Studio and Adobe Extended Script Debugger.

https://code.visualstudio.com/

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Adobe.extendscript-debug

Then create a .JSX file and run the code. In the reddit post is also an old tutorial but everything is a little bit different now.

You also need to export a Media encoder preset. Here is my fixed code with the help of chatGPT

var myPre = 'C:\\Users\\S\\Documents\\Adobe\\Adobe Media Encoder\\24.0\\Presets\\mp4_h264.epr'; // MP4-Preset

for (var i = 0; i < app.project.activeSequence.videoTracks[0].clips.length; i++) {
    // Destination of the clips
    var dest = 'C:\\Users\\S\\Desktop\\' + app.project.activeSequence.videoTracks[0].clips[i].name + '.mp4'; // .mp4 Erweiterung hinzugefügt

    // Start- und Endzeitpunkte des Clips in Sekunden
    var clipIn = app.project.activeSequence.videoTracks[0].clips[i].start.seconds;
    var clipOut = app.project.activeSequence.videoTracks[0].clips[i].end.seconds;

    // Erstellen der Time-Objekte für den In- und Out-Punkt
    var TimeIn = new Time();
    TimeIn.seconds = clipIn;

    var TimeOut = new Time();
    TimeOut.seconds = clipOut;

    // In- und Out-Punkte der Sequenz setzen
    app.project.activeSequence.setInPoint(TimeIn.seconds, 4);
    app.project.activeSequence.setOutPoint(TimeOut.seconds, 4);

    // Die Sequenz in die Encoder-Warteschlange einfügen
    try {
        app.encoder.encodeSequence(app.project.activeSequence, dest, myPre, 1, 0);
    } catch (e) {
        alert("Fehler beim Encoden: " + e.message);
    }
}

// Starten des Batch-Encodings
$.sleep(1000); // Kurze Verzögerung, um sicherzustellen, dass alles in der Warteschlange ist
app.encoder.startBatch();

You will need to Change the username "S" to your windows username and the export location to your desired location and you need to name the preset "mp4_h264.epr" and you also need to change the path after Adobe Media Encoder to the version you have.

When I do this, the resulting clips don't have in and out points. Has anyone else encountered this issue and (hopefully) found a solution?

Yea, it's a totally ridiculous pain point that should never have been like this. From the beginning of this app, exporting media for another app to use has been required in so many workflows.

And while you can do a render & replace operation to kinda do this, it isn't possible in all situations and is a right pain.

I have actual use cases where I had to do this in Resolve to save a lot of time. One of my clients requires me to create a "Best of" selection of the footage that I shot. I shoot in 4K, but they require only 1080p.

In Resolve, you simply throw all your clips on the timeline, cut away the parts you don't need and then, in the Deliver tab, you select Individual clips and it renders them out as such.

In PPro this is not possible. And it should be.

Six years in and this is still not implemented, it's bs.

it's 2024 and there's still no option to do this. outright mental. 

Hi @Black Rainbow UK and community,

I moved this feature request to the Ideas forum. Kindly upvote. I did.

Cheers,
Kevin

I stumbled upon a couple of other options that may prove useful to everyone, especially if you have lots of clips to export.

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI7X-NSj_ls

2 - https://www.reddit.com/r/premiere/comments/zkwspu/batch_export_clips_in_timeline_automatically/