insertMGT inserts mogrts at start of timeline, with no regard for "time" argument.

[videowizard.io]

MOGRT inserts at the start of timeline, 0 seconds, despite passing the string (in ticks) of 3 seconds into the time argument. Fwiw, I am using python wrapper package called pymiere and sublime text. In the event this is the issue (and I'm debugging blind), what scenarios *might* cause the importMGT function to fail in this way, and say, default to 0 seconds for the time arg? 

Any ideas?

import pymiere


TICKS_PER_SECOND = 254016000000

project = pymiere.objects.app.project
active_sequence = project.activeSequence

timeline_in_Time = pymiere.Time()
timeline_in_Time.ticks = str(3*TICKS_PER_SECOND)

mogrt_file_path = "<path_to_mogrt>"

mgt_clip = active_sequence.importMGT(path=mogrt_file_path,
                                     time=timeline_in_Time.ticks,
                                     videoTrackIndex=1,
                                     audioTrackIndex=0)

Related: does the importMGT documentation need some cleanup? The red text for the function suggests it is a method of the track object, while it is actually a method of the sequence object. ... right? 

Follow up: I got it to work. I believe the documentation is wrong. The insertMGT method wants INTEGER SECONDS as an input, *not* STRING TICKS, as indicated in the documentation.

For reference, the docs I am using are here: https://ppro-scripting.docsforadobe.dev/sequence/sequence.html#sequence-importmgt

[Bruce Bullis · Accepted solution]

I'm glad you got it to work, but I'm not sure how you did. 🙂

PProPanel's usage of importMGT() works correctly, when passed ticks. 

var newTrackItem 	= activeSeq.importMGT(	mogrtToImport.fsName,
											targetTime.ticks,
											vidTrackOffset,
											audTrackOffset);

[videowizard.io]

I see that. Is it meant to *only* work when passed ticks? Because I am now getting as-expected results passing the integer 3. The easy explanation is to chalk it up to Pymiere, but unfortunately, that doesn't get me any closer to understanding. 

This now works:

mgt_clip = active_sequence.importMGT(path=mogrt_file_path,
                                     time=3,
                                     videoTrackIndex=1,
                                     audioTrackIndex=0)

Edit: pymiere seems to also "want" ticks too. Strange!

https://github.com/qmasingarbe/pymiere/blob/master/pymiere/objects/premiere_objects.py#L1326

[Bruce Bullis]

>Is it meant to *only* work when passed ticks?

Yes.