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SimonBjörk
SimonBjörk
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March 22, 2016
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Selected clip in timeline?

  • March 22, 2016
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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

    Correct answer phlexib

    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

    3 replies

    SWAX
    SWAX
    Inspiring
    November 4, 2017

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

    Aecorn
    Aecorn
    Inspiring
    February 5, 2018

    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);

    Bruce Bullis
    Community Manager
    Bruce BullisCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    February 5, 2018

    It moved over here.

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

    phlexib
    phlexibCorrect answer
    Inspiring
    August 26, 2016

    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

    Bruce Bullis
    Community Manager
    Bruce BullisCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    August 29, 2016

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

    phlexib
    phlexib
    Inspiring
    August 29, 2016

    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.

      Bruce Bullis
      Community Manager
      Bruce BullisCommunity Manager
      Community Manager
      March 22, 2016

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

      Yes, we have plans.

      C
      Caliman Ionut
      Participant
      August 25, 2024

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

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