Premiere SDK Development ?

[jlchenc77697576]

Hi,

I am using the Premiere Pro CC 2019,

and I want to create a plugin in the File - Export list, for export my special personal format file.

I tried to read the SDK guide and also find the solution on google or youtube, but i still can not find the using way of the SDK to make this, I tried to build the sdk example file to find some way but failed. My computer tell me i dont have cuda (But i am using MacBook Pro), or my .prm file is not a valid 32 file (on another computer of Windows x64)……

I am very confused that what I should do now, if someone can provide me a video clip to know how to develop the export tool? Or if someone can tell me what should i do in a right way? 

THANK YOU!!!!!

TUT……

[Bruce Bullis]

Start from the SDK_Exporter sample project, and modify it to support your file format instead. 

> I tried to build the sdk example file to find some way but failed.

We'd be happy to help, if you can provide a lot more specifics about each failure...?

[jlchenc77697576 · Accepted solution]

Thanks for your help, and i have succefully build the example SDK_export_controller's project and saw the plugin in the Premiere.

[jlchenc77697576]

But I still have some question, i want to export a file looks like xml, how can i create a new export UI window? and how can i read the timeline's xml, which i can rewrite my personally file format change from the timelime's xml

[Bruce Bullis]

You can do that using PPro's ExtendScript API. 

Here's a link to the PProPanel sample, which exports an FCP XML for the current sequence.

[jlchenc77697576]

I tried to download the ExtendScript Toolkit, but the web show that page is unavailable. How can i get it in another way or if some other way to instead it?

[Bruce Bullis]

It's available through the Creative Cloud Desktop app; in the preferences, you have to enable "Show older apps".

[jlchenc77697576]

yeah, i got it!! Can you help me that how can i run the ternimal shell in ExtendScript Toolkit? Thank you!

[Bruce Bullis]

In PPro, you cannot. However, CEP panels can invoke command lines; see CEP HTML Test Panel.

[jlchenc77697576]

I have a step code in python, and i want to call it in ESTK. If is there another way to call python build's exec file?

[Bruce Bullis]

Again, not from within ExtendScript. CEP panels, from which most ExtendScript is executed, can invoke a command line.

Here's a snippet of JavaScript (not ExtendScript) panel code, that asks the user to pick a file, and then invokes a python script to operate on that file. 

function processMoGRT (){
    var csInterface = new CSInterface();
    var OSVersion = csInterface.getOSInformation();
    var filetypes = new Array();
    filetypes[0] = "mogrt"; 
    var result = window.cep.fs.showOpenDialog(false,false,"Select a .mogrt file", "~/Desktop",filetypes);

    var mogrtPath = result.data[0];

    var extPath = csInterface.getSystemPath(SystemPath.EXTENSION);

    var sep = "/";
    if (OSVersion.indexOf("Windows") > 0){
        sep = "\\\\"; 
    }
    var mogrtParentPath = mogrtPath.substring(0, mogrtPath.lastIndexOf(sep));
    var pyPath = extPath + sep + 'Foiltop.py';
    var processResult = window.cep.process.createProcess("usr/bin/python", pyPath, mogrtPath);

    if (OSVersion.indexOf("Windows") >=0){
        window.cep.process.createProcess("C:\\Windows\\explorer.exe", mogrtParentPath);
    } else {
        window.cep.process.createProcess("/usr/bin/open", mogrtParentPath);
    }
    var resultFileName = mogrtParentPath + sep + "Foiltop_results.txt";

    var resultFileContents = window.cep.fs.readFile(resultFileName);
    
    if (0 === result.err) {
        alert(resultFileContents.data);
    } else {
        alert("Failed to read results file.");
    }