Getting the source clips from a Multicam and Merged clip

[Max34219589k6zg]

Hi there, I'm sending out the Bruce Bullis bat signal!

Wondering if there is any way in the API to get the source media files that constitute a Merged clip or a Multicam clip? I see that I can easily find out if a project item is either of those using the API:

if (item.type === ProjectItemType.CLIP) {
    if (item.isMulticamClip() || item.isMergedClip()) {
     .... what now?

I tried e.g. 

item.videoComponents()

but videoComponents.numItems is 0 for a Multicam made from 3 clips, as well as a merged clip made from one video and one audio source file.

Kind regards,

Max

[R Neil Haugen]

@Bruce Bullis  ... are you free?   😉

[Bruce Bullis · Accepted solution]

There are no ExtendScript APIs around multi-cam, and there never will be. 

Once you've determined that a given projectItem is a multicam, you should be able to find it in the project's list of sequences; perhaps that would be useful?

[Max34219589k6zg]

Hm, if we can find the sequence we could possibly determine which source clips are contained within it right?

[Bruce Bullis]

Yes!

[Max34219589k6zg]

Okay confirmed that this seems to work for Multicam, but what about Merged clips? They are not sequences. Is there any way to find out which original source files have been "merged" into a Merged clip?

[Bruce Bullis]

No.