ExtendScript import effect preset file

[guntramp26642460]

Hi everybody!

I would like to know if it is possible to import an effect preset file (*.prfpset) via ExtendScript.

I already figured out how to add an effect to the effect controls of a clip/mogrt and set its properties, but it would be great to import the presets. When I try to import with any of the import/importFiles/... -functions, premiere shows something like "I do not like this file format".

(I use a dollar prefix so that these variables will be shown on top of the data browser in the toolkit...)

// add an effect to the effect controls of a clip/mogrt
$qeProject = qe.project;
$qeActiveSequence = $qeProject.getActiveSequence();
// V1
$qeVideoTrack = $qeActiveSequence.getVideoTrackAt(1);
// this is the clip/mogrt, note: there might an empty item after this one...
// the "normal" trackItem from the app.project will not allow adding an effect to its effect controls, but this one is from the qeDOM...
$qeItem = $qeVideoTrack.getItemAt(0);
// effect from current effect controls of this mogrt
$qeComponent = $qeItem.getComponentAt(0);
// add new effect to effect controls of this mogrt
$qeItem.addVideoEffect(this.qe.project.getVideoEffectByName("Basic 3D"));

This sample panel: https://github.com/Adobe-CEP/Samples/blob/master/PProPanel/index.html only describes how to copy preset files...

The only thing I can imagine would be to manually load the xml of a preset file, parse it to json and fetch the preset settings from there to set them "manually" after adding the required effect(s). Would this be a good approach if importing via ExtendScript is not possible?

As an overview for what is available, I use this document: https://premiereonscript.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Premiere-v12-Effect-Documentation.pdf.

Greetings,
Guntram

[Bruce Bullis · Accepted solution]

While the QE DOM remains officially unsupported, I seem to recall that you can use getVideoEffectByName() to get effect presets, by their name.

[Fire5F93]

I'm sorry ... I tried

```

clip.addVideoEffect(qe.project.getVideoEffectByName("Scale+ key"));
```
And it didn't work 

I have QE enabled but the preset effect that I tried to add didn't work... any idea how to get around this ?

[Bruce Bullis]

In the calling code, are you sure that the clip object is valid, and obtained from the QE DOM? 
Does "Scale+ key" appear as an entry, in the video effect list? 

var effectList = qe.project.getVideoEffectList();

What resuled is returned from getVideoEffectByName()? 

[guntramp26642460]

What I am assuming here is that "Scale+ key" is a custom preset.

I could not find a possibility to access custom effect presets and apply them to an item.

(They do not appear in the

getVideoEffectList()

...)

Is it correct, that there is no way to access the custom presets?

[Bruce Bullis · Accepted solution]

Correct.

[guntramp26642460]

Thanks for clarifying 🙂

[guntramp26642460]

We wanted to apply some custom presets to items in the timeline, and the best way to do this seems to be to use a mogrt containing effect presets which takes a path to the media.
This way we do not have to read and parse preset files and assemble effect sets manually.

🙂

[harsh34949843p78e]

Were you able to achieve that?