Premiere extendscript help with proxies

[darrenp87525966]

Hi,

How would I get the resolution of a proxy via extendscript?  I am thinking I might need to temporarily import the proxy as a project item and the getProjectMetadata()  VideoInfo?

Is it possible to detach proxies using extendscript? I thought of setting a clip to offline, but the proxy still hangs around. 

Not sure if this is a bug or expected, but ProjectItem.canChangeMediaPath() seems to return true for virtual clips eg. adjustment layers, black video.

And +1 to being able to create an adjustment layer using extendscript.

thanks,

Jason

[Bruce Bullis · Accepted solution]

>How would I get the resolution of a proxy via extendscript?  I am thinking I might need to temporarily import the proxy as a project item and the getProjectMetadata()  VideoInfo?

That would work.

For PPro to think some media is a proxy, it'd have to be associated with a PPro projectItem, so it'd need to be imported. Metadata will have most of what your looking for; when proxies are active, you could get the projectItem's footageInterpretation.

I'm hopeful that changing the path of a synthetic projectItem,  which is never relied upon to have a path, is harmless. 🙂

>Is it possible to detach proxies using extendscript?

Yes. 

[darrenp87525966]

Thanks Bruce!

I could find any docs with ProjectItem.detachProxy() so that is a great discovery!

Regarding the paths of a synthetic projectItem, using   (cProjectItem.canProxy() || ProjectItem.hasProxy())  gave me what I wanted.