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SimonBjörk
SimonBjörk
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Mar 22, 2016 2:25 PM UTC
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Selected clip in timeline?

Is there anyway to get the selected clip in a timeline using ExtendScript? And also get that clips in/out point (and other metadata).

If not, any plans to implement it? I'm currently looking to do a "Publish" tool in Premiere for a vfx pipeline and I need to be able to "do stuff" on the selected clip.

/Simon

    phlexib
    phlexibCorrect answer
    Inspiring
    Aug 26, 2016 3:44 PM UTC

    hi,

    I know it's a old question, but yes you can do that.

    you can loop through a trackItemCollection , and check for the isSelected() property. It returns a boolean, if true, you can get still from the trackItem, both inPoint and outPoint.

    var seq = app.project.activeSequence;

    var tracks = seq.videoTracks;

    // check only for the first track

    var firstTrackItems = tracks[0].clips;

    for ( var i=0 ; i< firstTrackItems.numItems ; i++){

            var currentClip = firstTrackItems;

            if( firstTrackItems.isSelected()){

                // do whatever you want with the clip

                alert( firstTrackItems.start.seconds);

                }

        }

    Ben

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    SWAX
    SWAX
    Inspiring
    Nov 4, 2017 2:31 PM UTC

    Bruce Bullis​ -- has this been updated in recent API updates? The possibility to get the selected clip(s) ranges (inpoint/outpoint)?

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    Aecorn
    Aecorn
    Inspiring
    Feb 5, 2018 5:26 PM UTC

    You can get the inpoint of a trackitem I think.

    var clipIn = foundVideo.inPoint.ticks;

    Currently struggeling to modify what Bruce Bullis​ called "master clips" in another thread. The link he posted is dead.

    Im wanting to place a projectItem into the selected track at the selected time (code is doing this already), what Im looking for is setting the "clip in" time and "clip out" time equal to a trackItem already in the active sequence.

      var clipIn = foundVideo.inPoint.ticks;

      var editIn = foundVideo.start.ticks;

            

      projectItem.InPoint.ticks = clipIn;

    //or

    projectItem.setInPoint(clipIn).ticks;

    //does not work, what should I look for? Is manipulating projectItems the wrong way around this?

    var clipIn = foundVideo.inPoint.seconds;

    projectItem.setStartTime(clipIn) ;

    //only works on subclips?

            

    activeSequence.videoTracks[1].insertClip(projectItem, editIn);

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    Bruce Bullis
    Bruce Bullis
    Legend
    Feb 5, 2018 5:29 PM UTC

    It moved over here.

    Samples/Premiere.jsx at master · Adobe-CEP/Samples · GitHub

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    phlexib
    phlexibCorrect answer
    Inspiring
    Aug 26, 2016 3:44 PM UTC

    hi,

    I know it's a old question, but yes you can do that.

    you can loop through a trackItemCollection , and check for the isSelected() property. It returns a boolean, if true, you can get still from the trackItem, both inPoint and outPoint.

    var seq = app.project.activeSequence;

    var tracks = seq.videoTracks;

    // check only for the first track

    var firstTrackItems = tracks[0].clips;

    for ( var i=0 ; i< firstTrackItems.numItems ; i++){

            var currentClip = firstTrackItems;

            if( firstTrackItems.isSelected()){

                // do whatever you want with the clip

                alert( firstTrackItems.start.seconds);

                }

        }

    Ben

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    Bruce Bullis
    Bruce Bullis
    Legend
    Aug 29, 2016 1:41 PM UTC

    Nicely done, Ben—though I wasn't kidding, we are working on better timeline selection handling, through the API.

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    phlexib
    phlexib
    Inspiring
    Aug 29, 2016 11:53 PM UTC

    I just started trying to figure out script in Premiere, and coming from After Effect, I cried and pull my hair a few times already.

    Especially because I do feel that there's actually a lot more tasks to automate in an Editing software.

    So thank you, for helping the community, and good luck with the API.

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      Bruce Bullis
      Bruce Bullis
      Legend
      Mar 22, 2016 5:13 PM UTC

      There's no way to do that...today.

      Yes, we have plans.

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      Caliman Ionut
      Participant
      Aug 25, 2024 11:06 AM UTC

      Sooo, did you manage to follow through with those plans in these 8 years of time?

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