Using XML to create a custom label color

[davidscommcare]

Hi,

I'm wanting to use a custom label color for a few clips that will be repeating throughout my sequence.

Right now I have this within each clipItem, which works:

<labels>

<label2>Forest</label2>

</labels>

But could I do something like this?

<labels>

<label2>New Purple</label2>

<color>#a033f3</color>

</labels>

Or anything similar? 

[bbb_999]

I'm not sure what a clipItem is; do you mean projectItem, or trackItem? 

For projectItems, you can use getColorLabel() / setColorLabel(). Note: trackItems created from a projectItem will not have their label color updated; any new trackItems created from those projectItems, will get the updated label.

Also...what, specifically, are you editing, the .prproj file?

[davidscommcare]

I'm editing an XML file that I import to Premiere.

And by clip item I mean the item that gets displayed in the timeline:

<sequence>
<media>
<video>
<track>
<clipitem id="clipitem-100001">
						<name>Movie 1</name>
						<start>0</start>
						<end>30</end>

						<masterclipid>masterclip-100000</masterclipid>
						<enabled>TRUE</enabled>
						<rate>
							<timebase>30</timebase>
						</rate>
						<file id="file-100003">
							<name>Movie 1.mp4</name>
							<pathurl>./PNGs/Movie_1.mp4</pathurl>						
						</file>
						<labels>
							<label2>Rose</label2>
							(Where would this go? setColorLabel(#00FFFF))
						</labels>
					</clipitem>

[bbb_999 · Accepted solution]

Mangling XML files to specify label colors is unsupported, and not recommended.

PPro's ExtendScript API contains the getColorLabel() / setColorLabel() calls I referenced; here's some example code.

[davidscommcare]

Thank you for the quick response.

I have a newbie question, can you give me any more info about the link you just sent? Is that something that I would import into PR somehow? Do I just edit that in any IDE? What language is it? How do I find a user guide on how to create in that for PR?

[Bruce Bullis]

Happy to help!

Like most Adobe applications, PPro supports CEP-based extensions; these panels are, at some level, web pages, but have two special powers: 1. They can access the local file system, and 2. They can drive the host application via ExtendScript. 

Here's info about getting started with panels: 

https://github.com/Adobe-CEP/Getting-Started-guides

Here's the PPro-specific example panel: 

https://github.com/Adobe-CEP/Samples/tree/master/PProPanel

Here are PPro's ExtendScript API docs:

https://ppro-scripting.docsforadobe.dev

Feel free to reach out (directly) with any questions.