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lucascorreia
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August 27, 2014
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Extendscript reference for Premiere Pro CC 2014

  • August 27, 2014
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Hi,

I am trying to develop an extension for Premiere Pro CC 2014 using CEF & CEP and am having trouble finding information about the available APIs in Extendscript.

While I have with some trial and error been able to find some objects and methods using the ExtendScript Toolkit Data Browser, I can't see what arguments the methods accept so I don't know how to call them.

Is there any reference or documentation available the Extendscript API for Premiere Pro CC 2014?

In particular, I am looking for any documentation for the render- and export- methods of the sequence object, as well as any information accessing presets.

Regards,

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Correct answer Bruce Bullis

Good to know, we are in the middle of a feature that requires automating the encoding of a given sequence, so probably I will be asking again, may I contact you directly through a private message or make a post in this subforum?


Encoding sequences = that's pretty well exercised in PProPanel.

If it's a general question, here is fine.

Feel free to email me (I sent you a mail earlier), or private message, as well.

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Bruce Bullis
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Bruce BullisCommunity Manager
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September 21, 2014

[I discussed the issue with Lucas off-line, some time ago.]

There is no ExtendScript API reference for PPro.

You can certainly use the Reflection Object (documented in 'JavaScript Tools Guide CC.pdf', provided with ExtendScript Toolkit) to get the methods and members of every object.

Also, you can simply ask; we're pretty helpful.

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super7ui
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February 4, 2015

Hello bbb_999, first of all, sorry for reviving this thread, but I'm in the same situation as the thread author, we are currently developing a javascript extension for PPro and there´s almost no documentation for interacting with the API. I've read the Javascript Tools Guide CC and in the Inspecting object models section there´s a statement that says:

"Each Adobe application defines a dictionary for that application’s Document Object Model (DOM). The

dictionary for a particular application may not be available until you launch that application, or until

you select it as a target in the Toolkit."

But as you said in the above post, there´s no such documentation. Is there any plan, or a future update, to include the missing API reference for PPro?

Thanks

Bruce Bullis
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Bruce BullisCommunity Manager
Community Manager
February 4, 2015

"Each Adobe application defines a dictionary for that application’s Document Object Model (DOM). The

dictionary for a particular application may not be available until you launch that application, or until

you select it as a target in the Toolkit."

But as you said in the above post, there´s no such documentation. Is there any plan, or a future update, to include the missing API reference for PPro?

There is nothing missing; no ExtendScript API reference documentation is planned, for PPro*.

However, that's not the dictionary the guide is talking about. If you launch ESTK, and connect to PPro, you'll see the entire DOM in the Data Browser:

The sample panel exercises most of the API:

https://github.com/Adobe-CEP/Samples/tree/master/PProPanel

Here's the 'how to set up a development system' guide:

https://github.com/Adobe-CEP/Samples/blob/master/PProPanel/payloads/PPro_Panel_QuickStart_Guide.pdf‌

* In a former Adobe life, I managed the After Effects SDK Guide; 350+ pages of cross-referenced, hyperlinked, exhaustive API documentation...which no devs ever read, before asking us API questions. Now, we provide working code that exercises the APIs, and beyond that, devs just ask us API questions. Much simpler.

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Brendo
Participant
September 16, 2014

This is the only documentation I've found -- com.adobe.premiere Summary

The data browser in the extendscript toolkit IDE will show some of the functions and properties as well.

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