Reading Text Layer in clip?

[BPmhaenssgen]

Hello Adobe-Team,

I'm looking for a way to programmatically read the content of a text-layer-clip from a sequence in Adobe Premiere Pro.

I've come to a point where I was able to get the property name and nearly each of the values of the properties of that text layer but I cannot figure out how to get the content in JSX.

In Photoshop this would be something like .textItem... but here in Premiere all I get is:

	for (var propertyName in app.project.activeSequence.videoTracks[1].clips[lvi].components[2].properties[0])
	{
	$.writeln(propertyName);
	}

-> displayName which content is "Quelltext" which is not the textual content of the layer but just the name.

Any help would be appreciated.

Best regards,

Mirko

[Bruce Bullis · Accepted solution]

There is currently no API for getting the text (strings) out of clips, Text layers, or Titler instances. We're working on it.

[kylel96978476]

I am also trying to write an extension to extract text from a premiere project. Is there an ETA of when this might be available in the future?

[Bruce Bullis]

I would be surprised if you didn't see that capability in the API by NAB.

[kylel96978476]

Hmm would it be a part of the "Component" interface? I'm not seeing anything in the Object Model documentation in ExtendScript Toolkit, but there aren't any details around the Component objects.

[Bruce Bullis]

All effects show up as 'components'.

There's nothing there, today, that would let you access/modify text strings.

[casey.s]

Bruce, I did find that you can get to the text in a video by following a path similar to this: JSON.stringify(app.project.sequences[0].videoTracks[0].clips[0].components[2].properties[0].getValue());

The component at index 2 will be the Text, if there is text in the video, and properties[0] is usually Source Text, and if you stringify the value returned, then you can parse it and turn it into a JS object to work with. It's weird and has some strange params in it.

Is this experimental or new, maybe?

[Bruce Bullis]

It's new.

I think what you've noticed is that, for PPro-sourced .mogrts, you get the actual source text, while for AE-source .mogrts, you get a blob of JSON.

[AndRobots]

Any update on this for 2020?