Setting Source Playhead Position without app.enableQE?

[Premiopolis]

Is this possible?

From this link I was able to cue the source monitor via QE

But considering the endless admonitions to avoid QE when possible, I've been hunting the ReadTheDocs API  for a more approved version.  So far, no luck.

There's a Program side version: sequence.setPlayerPosition()

There's a source.getPosition(), which I can't seem to get working.

And there's a sourceMonitor object which doesn't seem to have anything other than QE.

I ended up on a wild goose chase testing
   sourceMonitor.getPosition()
   sourceMonitor.getPlayerPosition()
   sourceMonitor.setPosition()
   sourceMonitor.setPlayerPosition()
As well as all the above methods but using a projectItem object (i.e. projectItem.getPosition() etc.)

I'm assuming source & app.sourceMonitor are the same thing, correct?

For now sticking with the much-maliged QE 😞

[Ivan Stepanov]

To avoid wild chase you can get all available methods using Property Exlporer extension.

There are no more functions in sourceMonitor object besides the ones you found in ReadTheDocs.

I guess the only way to make it work without QE is to have a mix of play & sleep:

var video = app.project.rootItem.children[0];
var speed = 1; // could be negative value as well
app.sourceMonitor.openProjectItem(video);
app.sourceMonitor.play(speed); // start play
$.sleep(1000); // to control how long to play
app.sourceMonitor.play(); // to stop

// then use app.sourceMonitor.getPosition() to find out if you scrubbed to a right place

[Premiopolis]

Thanks for the Property Editor.  Cool extension.

Love the scrub back-n-forth approach -- You could re-create the experience of tape to tape linear editing.

The QE approach is working great as a solution.

[Ivan Stepanov]

That approach would be useful for creating some "vintage" extensions 🙂

[Bruce Bullis · Accepted solution]

> Is this possible?

Not today.