Get the path to media opened in source monitor

[Francis36985154rpnu]

Hello,

Is there any way at all to get any information about what current media is opened in source monitor, such as the file path? I know we can open a project item or raw file paths in source monitor:

app.sourceMonitor.openProjectItem(someProjectItem)
app.sourceMonitor.openFilePath(someFilePath)

If there is no straight forward way to just get the path of whatever is opened in source monitor e.g. via the SourceMonitor object, is it simply impossible via any other method (event callbacks, inspecting project metadata etc)?

I have seen this thread and other that hints at such functionality being added soon, almost a decade ago: https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/get-info-for-clip-loaded-in-source-monitor-u...

Where we see this comment from @Bruce Bullis :

Partial workaround = get the path from the Source monitor, then use app.project.findItemsMatchingMediaPath() to find related projectItems.

Reading that it sounds like there must be a way to actually "get the path from Source monitor". But how?? 🙂

Kind regard

[Bruce Bullis · Accepted solution]

There's no supported API that lets you obtain the path of the currently open media, from the Source monitor. 

[Francis36985154rpnu]

No unsupported API:s (i.e. QE) either I suppose?

[Bruce Bullis]

Nothing an Adobe employee would recommend, on a public forum, no. 🙂

[Francis36985154rpnu]

Understood. Back to the drawing board it is!

[Ivan Stepanov · Accepted solution]

This should work:

app.sourceMonitor.getProjectItem().getMediaPath()

[Francis36985154rpnu]

Wow.. it actually seems like it does. That call does not seem to be documented anywhere for the SourceMonitor object as far as I can see. How did you figure that/where did you find it? 

[bbb_999 · Accepted solution]

Ivan's right, if there is a projectItem corresponding to the media open in the Source monitor. 🙂

And, yes, that's a documentation bug; we'll add getProjectItem().

[Ivan Stepanov]

I use this tool: https://exchange.adobe.com/apps/cc/1170/property-explorer

[Francis36985154rpnu]

Ah I did not know about that, very nice thank you!