ExtendScript Change Graphics Source Text not working

[rubberducking]

I am using Adobe Premiere Pro 2023 and I am trying to edit a Graphics Layer's Source Text using ExtendScript. Everything I try to do it, it sets the Graphics Layer to a blank and removes all the text instead of setting the value

Here is what I am doing:

app.project.activeSequence.videoTracks[2].clips[0].components[3].properties[0].getValue('Hello', 1); 

I would expect the item to be updated to be updated to "Hello"

Note, this Graphics item was generated using Captions and then using the "Upgrade to Caption to Graphics" function

[rubberducking]

setValue * 

[Bruce Bullis · Accepted solution]

Chaining that many function calls makes it impossible to detect which failed. Also, without the actual project you're using, it's impossible to tell whether that call should work. 

PPro's .mogrt-related API calls are designed to work specifically with .mogrts generated in After Effects.

In the PProPanel example code around inserting and manipulating AE-generated .mogrts, it's necessary to call trackItem.getMGTComponent(), to access the variable params exposed by that .mogrt. Does that call succeed, for the trackItem you're attempting to modify, above? 



https://github.com/Adobe-CEP/Samples/blob/e60d6a22ef44d8eb4cca3904c35a0c050576b697/PProPanel/jsx/PPR...

[ruud32339267ifl6]

Bruce, in the PProPanel this line always returns null

var moComp = newTrackItem.getMGTComponent();

moComp = null??

[ruud32339267ifl6]

so yes the mogrt is added but tje text is not changed.... 

[Bruce Bullis]

Was the inserted .mogrt created in AE (supported), or PPro (unsupported)?

[ruud32339267ifl6]

The inserted ,mrgt was the Basic Title.mogrt that is in the  "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Pro 2023\Essential Graphics\ folder

[Bruce Bullis]

Seems to have been created in PPro; PProPanel can't get the MGTComponent either.