How to develop a PremierePro plug-in that reads CSV (or XML) setting file and do something

[T.A.]

I'm planning to develop a plug-in that opens CSV (or XML) setting file and control media, for Premiere Pro.
On the SDK guide, I can find how to import media files, however, cannot find how to read CSV (or XML) files.
Is there any way developing the plug-in above?

Thanks.

[Bruce Bullis · Accepted solution]

When you say 'plug-in' (created in C++), I think you mean 'panel' (written in JavaScript and ExtendScript), right?

As you've seen, there's no API within PPro for reading/parsing CSV or XML files. Your panel would need to do that. You can read files from both the JavaScript layer (using the cep.fs calls, as exercised in CEP HTML Sample Panel), or ExtendScript; see the JavaScript Tools Guide, that ships with ExtendScript Toolkit.

[Markerbox Man]

"Do something" is a very vague description. I've developed an extension (panel) that can read timecode-related information from a CSV file and automatically creates markers in Premiere (http://markerbox.pro). What exactly do you want to import and what do you want to do with that information?