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importFiles() not working on macOS Monterrey 12.6
Hello there,
Gonna go directly to the problem 😄
I created a script that takes footage form AE and places it in a sequence in Premiere Pro. It works well on windows 11, but on macOS it does not import the files.
Here is how I get the path for the files, in After Effects:
fileName = app.project.activeItem.layer(1).source.file.absoluteURI;
The layer is checked, the file exists. This works on windows 11, as I mentioned.
This is the way I try to add the file to Premiere Pro:
if (app.project.importFiles(fileName, 0, bin, false)) {
premiere_logger.info("Successfuly imported file.");
} else {
premiere_logger.info("Failed to import file");
};
premiere_logger is an object that I created that writes inside a file. The result of importFiles() in this case is true, although no file is imported in the project.
bin is a variable that holds the bin that I create previous to calling this function.
Does anybody know if I do something wrong? Is this a bug? Is there a workaround to introduce footage inside the project?
I have tried this both in AE/PPro 2023 and AE/PPro 2024.
Thanks,
Andrei!
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