Exporting from Adobe Premiere using extendscript

[cspears2002]

Hi!

I'm trying to figure out how the exportTimeline() function works.  So far, I have managed to import files and add them to a sequence.  Now I want to export the sequence as a Quicktime movie.  Eventually, I want to be able to set start and end points for an export (i.e. export a work area, export a clip from the timeline, etc.).

I did try to use the function by passing in a path to a file name:

exportTimeline("somepath.mov")

I didn't get an error message, which is good.  I got a 'result:7' (not sure what that means).  I did not see any new files exported to the path though.

Thanks!

[Bruce Bullis]

Per the sample reference I already sent you, don't use exportTimeline().

[cspears2002]

Ok I'm figuring this out.

Seems like the trick is to use Adobe Media Encoder to render out the final clips as quicktimes (or whatever format you want).

I have exported the project as a XML file.  Then I scraped the XML with Python and lxml to get the start and end points I want and wrote that data out as another XML file, which hopefully I can read back into Premiere with ExtendScript.  I will set the in and out points and render with Media Encoder.

Hopefully this will work! 

[Bruce Bullis]

I've discussed the issue with Chris; we have better ways of exporting footage than exportTimeline(), which DO respect the work area.

[filmfym]

Why not share what you have in the forum? that way everyone with a similar question will be helped.

[Bruce Bullis · Accepted solution]

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[kenn68121511]

Why can't you guys just answer the question instead of always pointing to your samples?