Command Line Documentation

[luke.whitehorn@demcon-nymus3d.]

I was looking at how to tie Adobe products into our pipeline,. To do this I need to know how to use various products, such as AE and Premiere Pro, via the command line. However I cannot find documentation for the command line options. My first instinct was to pass the -h switch to get built in help, which didn't work, then /? which also didn't work.

I found the following thread:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro/ppro-cc-2019-execute-extendscript-through-command-line/m...

...whereby you must place a file called extendscriptprqe.txt in the executable folder of PP, and use some unusual command line switches to get PP to run a script on startup. I searched extensively for this but could not find anything. I did a Google search for "extendscriptprqe.txt" and there was no official documentation.

tl;dr

So, in short, where is the official documentaion for the command line switches for the Adobe suite of products?

If it doesn't exist, why not?

[Justin Taylor-Hyper Brew · Accepted solution]

I was just going to direct you to that thread. There isn't any official documentation that I know of.

You're not finding anything for"extendscriptprqe.txt" because it doesn't matter what's in the file, it just needs to exist next to the executable. After that you can launch script files or inline scripts directly from the command line via:

Using a script file "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2019\Adobe Premiere Pro.exe" /C es.processFile "C:\path\to\test.jsx"

Using a string: "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2019\Adobe Premiere Pro.exe" /C es.process "alert('hello world')

That pretty much opens the door to run any script you want through the command line, so I wouldn't spend time searching for additional flags (if they even exist).

If you need 2-way-communication between an external app, look into invisible panels and websockets.