Getting Display Name Of Clip In Sequence?

[Philip Bowser]

Does anyone know if there is a way to access the name of a clip in a specific sequence? I'm looking for the name that is displayed, not necessarily the projectItem name.

In Premiere you can right click on a clip in a sequence and rename the instance of that clip, but not have that actually rename the source item's name in the project.

I'm looking for a way to view the renamed clip's name (and potentially modify it)

I know I can get the source name of a clip with something like this:

app.project.activeSequence.videoTracks[0].clips[0].projectItem.name;

But that won't give me the renamed name.

Has anyone come across this before? Any help is appreciated!

Thanks!

[geordiem74078114]

This will get a clip name:

app.enableQE();
qe.project.init();  // This will clear out any qe objects so make sure you know when to call it
var qeseq = qe.project.getActiveSequence();
var vTrack = qeseq.getVideoTrackAt(0);  // Assumes you have clips in the first video track
var item = vTrack.getItemAt(0);  // Assumes you have clips in the first video track
$.writeln(item.name);

But make sure you know the pitfalls of qe

The magic sauce is the init() function.  But like I said, any qe based objects will be invalid after calling that function.

[Bruce Bullis · Accepted solution]

PProPanel's randomizeSequenceSelection() gets the clip's name, without using QE DOM.

[Philip Bowser]

Thanks Bruce and Geordiem!

Bruce, does this method not just get the clip's source name? Not the renamed name. I've looked into that method and I can only ever get the name that shows up in the project panel.

For example let's say I have a file "MOV_0002" and if I were to rename just a single instance of that clip in a timeline to "VFX 010", it doesn't change the source name of the file in the project, just that instance of the clip in the timeline. But when I run your suggested method I can only ever get access to the source name "MOV_0002", I can't get access to wherever it stores "VFX 010".

Am I doing something wrong? Or is the QE method the only solution right now?

Thanks a bunch folks, you are all very helpful!

[Bruce Bullis]

Oddly enough, the QE DOM method is the only way to access the clip name, today.