Insert Multicam Sequence to Timeline with Script

[brightxu]

Hi, I'm building a CEP panel where i want to insert a multicam sequence into my timeline. I essentially want the script to do the same thing as me dragging the multicam sequence from my media bin into the timeine (except with the script). I'm currently doing track.insertClip(multicamProjectItem, insertionPoint), but I'm encountering the issue where when the sequence gets put into the timeline, it loses its "multicam" functionality (the videos get overlapped and I can't press 1/2/etc. to swap between the cams). Any help here would be greatly appreciated!

[Bruce Bullis · Accepted solution]

Hi brightxu, 

Unfortunately, there is no way to control how the sequence gets inserted.

No further updates to PPro's ExtendScript APIs are planned, or scheduled; we'll take [above] as a feature request, for PPro's forthcoming UXP extensibilty.

[brightxu]

Hey Bruce, thanks for the quick reply. Some other questions I had:

1. When i import the multicam sequence, it gets flattened. I realized that I can right click the clip in the timeline and do "Multi-Camera -> Enable", which brings back the multicam functionality. However, the audio is only linked to MC1 and not the other cameras (MC2, MC3, etc.). Is there anything I can do about that?
2. I'm trying to place a clip onto the track with insertClip()/overwriteClip(). For audio, I'm trying to decide if there's an empty track to place the clip on, but I'm encountering the case where I see that A1 is open for example, but my clip can only be placed on A5 since A1-4 are stereo tracks and only A5 is a 5.1 track (i have a 5.1 audio clip). It doesn't seem like I can see what type of audio channel the track supports when checking to see what audio tracks are available?

Thanks so much for the help!