Editing clips with ExtendScript

[arturp97454551]

hello, you hardworking, knowledgeable people!

I desperately need to automate a big part of the editing process in Premiere.

For the next project we will be recording tons of footage, where the main action on video will be repeating with variations many many times. We then need to split the long recordings into separate chunks. I will be able bring in time markers, for where to make the cuts.

But I've hit a wall when trying to manipulate clips on the timeline with ExtendScript. I can read a bunch of info about the clip, e.g.:

start

end

inPoint

outPoint

(.seconds and .ticks)

But I'm unable to change any of those values. And the only functions I've found deal with selecting a clip i.e. isSelected() and setSelected()

Are there any ways to trim/cut/move, whatever, clips on the timeline using ExtedSctipt scripts, or am I badly out of luck?

And to finish off what I'm trying to do I'll need to do something like "Make Subsequence" with all of the cuts, to separate them into their own videos I can then export, again looking to automate this.

Many thanks!

[Bruce Bullis]

I'm not sure in which documentation that should be, other than in the documentation link I provided...?

As for why the recommended approach ("Just let Add-Ons handle the sync, through the CC Desktop app")...I have no idea. They have an active forum here, as well...

[sberic]

Bruce Bullis wrote

I'm not sure in which documentation that should be, other than in the documentation link I provided...?

I think this documentation in particular could benefit from having that information added to it. That's the documentation that's linked when you visit the extension page, click on "Where to find it", expand "Troubleshooting checklist", and click "Troubleshooting guide"...

[Bruce Bullis]

Agreed, that makes sense.

[sisizanohito]

try this

var seq = app.project.activeSequence;
var vTrack = seq.videoTracks[3];
var VinClip = $._PPP_.getClipFromeSequence("1.png", vTrack);
var endTime =VinClip.end;
endTime.seconds = 50;
var startTime =VinClip.start;
startTime.seconds = 10;
VinClip.start = startTime;
VinClip.end = endTime;
getClipFromeSequence: function (name, Track) {
     for (var i = Track.clips.numItems - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
          var clip = Track.clips;
          if (clip.name == name) {
               return clip;
          }
     }
     return 0;
}

i can trim clip on the timeline .

[Aecorn]

This is cool, thanks, im getting some stuff happening!

I realized that the ORDER in which you paste on attributes onto clips affects how they change in the timeline...
(Not very intuitive.)
But this seems to copy edit-info well from one clip to the next (debugging now).

         var clip1 = app.project.activeSequence.videoTracks[0].clips[0];

        var clip2 = app.project.activeSequence.videoTracks[1].clips[0];

        if (clip1.start.seconds > clip2.end.seconds){

            clip2.end = clip1.end;

            clip2.start = clip1.start;

        }else{

            clip2.start = clip1.start;

            clip2.end = clip1.end;

            }

        clip2.inPoint = clip1.inPoint;

        clip2.outPoint = clip1.outPoint;

        clip2.duration = clip1.duration;