Preserving video/audio link when moving a clip to a different track via UXP?

Hello !
Any news on this ?

I am developing a Premiere Pro UXP plugin with several Timeline organization actions. These actions need to move, reorder, or distribute selected clips while preserving Premiere’s native video/audio link.

At present, the documented UXP workflow for moving a Timeline item appears to be:

1. Read the Timeline selection with sequence.getSelection().getTrackItems().
2. Create a copy using SequenceEditor.createCloneTrackItemAction().
3. Remove the original using SequenceEditor.createRemoveItemsAction().

This works visually, but cloning and removing track items breaks the native Premiere link between a video clip and its linked audio clip. Cloning the video and audio separately in the same transaction keeps them synchronized in time, but does not preserve their link.

This affects multiple Timeline actions in my plugin:

• Move Video Clip Up / Down
  Moving a video clip to another video track creates a new, unlinked video clip.

• Staircase Up / Down
  Distributing selected clips across video tracks breaks the original video/audio links.

• Tower / Reverse Tower / Tower with Offset
  These actions can detect linked audio and move it together with the video.

• Reverse Timeline Clip Order
  Reordering clips with clone/remove has the same issue.

• Randomize Order Selection
  A shuffle action has the same requirement. 

The alignToVideo parameter of createCloneTrackItemAction() does not appear to recreate or preserve the native Premiere video/audio link.

Could Premiere UXP expose one of the following?

• An action to move a linked video/audio group while preserving the native link.
• An action to clone a linked video/audio group as a linked group.
• An action to create or restore a native link between a VideoClipTrackItem and an AudioClipTrackItem.
• A documented option on createCloneTrackItemAction() that preserves linked media.
• Read access to a linked-group identifier, allowing plugins to reliably identify the complete linked group.

This would make it possible to build safe Timeline tools for reordering clips, randomizing clip order, changing tracks, creating staircases, and stacking clips without damaging the editing relationships users rely on.

Thank you.

Confirming: You want the corresponding trackItem to move with the one you’re moving, yes?

Hi,

Thanks for the post. I'll try to get a team member to respond. I appreciate your patience.

Thanks,
Kevin