Looking for any current Scripting Documentation / Resources for Premiere Pro

[homerj]

I've just finished making some python scripts for use in our editorial workflow when working on an animated series. These were to automate some production processes in Media Composer. 

I'm now looking at how I can acomplish similar tasks within Premiere using its scripting ability as some studios use Premiere.

The documentation I'm finding online seems to be current to Premiere 15.4 era, or a number of years since it was last updated.

I've been using Visual Studio Code for writing my python scripts and was going to work there. I've installed Adobe Extension Development Tools, ExtendScript Debugger.

Also I've installed the ExtendScript Developer Tools TRIAL in Premiere.

My first project would be to see if I can create a script to automate the creation of a shot slug for each shot from a final animaic.  Finding the edits between muliple panels, and pulling the shot code from the file name for onscreen. One way I already see might be to first pull the shot code 010_010 from the panel name and add the 010_ to the Scene MetaData, and 010 to the Take MetaData.  So there is one script I could also start with... take the selected files in a bin and add that MetaData.

I'm looking for any current documentation or resources etc.

[Bruce Bullis · Accepted solution]

>Also I've installed the ExtendScript Developer Tools TRIAL in Premiere

I'm not sure what that is...?

Here's the PProPanel example extension: https://github.com/Adobe-CEP/Samples/tree/master/PProPanel

PProPanel, while very ugly, is thorough in demonstrating PPro's ExtendScript API. The project contains VSCode debugging configurations for JavaScript (the CEP layer) and ExtendScript (PPro's scripting API). 

Here's PPro's ExtendScript API documentation: https://ppro-scripting.docsforadobe.dev

Potentially relevant:

Get selected projectItems: https://github.com/Adobe-CEP/Samples/blob/e60d6a22ef44d8eb4cca3904c35a0c050576b697/PProPanel/jsx/PPR...

Manipulating XMP (media-specific) metadata, for a given projectItem: https://github.com/Adobe-CEP/Samples/blob/e60d6a22ef44d8eb4cca3904c35a0c050576b697/PProPanel/jsx/PPR...

Manipulating PPro (project-specific) metadata, for a given projectItem: https://github.com/Adobe-CEP/Samples/blob/e60d6a22ef44d8eb4cca3904c35a0c050576b697/PProPanel/jsx/PPR...

Feel free to ask questions here!

[homerj]

Thanks for the quick reply!

I'll get started with the links you provided. Much appreciated.

[Bed30321077z973]

>Developer Tools TRIAL in Premiere

I am also curious about these, is it that page that explain how to make your own "software" derived from PPRO, a page a found here a while ago, but I did nto save the page, and not sure how to follow the instructions of that page