I have some custom built panels that are doing this too...  turns out there are some small changes to the panel API with respect to importing to selected bins... suspect it might be related. ... View more

Sounds like a very good reason to reinstall the previous version you were using. Probably a good idea to make a note of that build too,  so if you ever need to revisit these projects (at a later date,  after you re-update) you know which build to restore. ... View more

NewBlue make a Titler plug in that is PC ready... maybe try the demo for that one? ... View more

You should be able to add tracks using the unsupported and undocumented QE (Quality Engineering) sequence method "addTracks' ... it would be something along the lines of: app.enableQE(); var activeSequence = app.project.activeSequence; activeSequence.addTracks(); ... though I'm afraid it's not something I've used and I don't know the appropriate arguments needed. Are you familiar with using reflection to discover properties and methods? The QE DOM is an internal / private API used by Adobe's Quality Engineering team for automated testing purposes. As noted, it's not publicly supported, documented nor recommended ... but theres quite a lot of functionality in there for those willing to dig around. Good luck. Andy ... View more

Hey Bruce Thanks for the very quick reply. I'd like to be able to present users timecode accurate details about the source clips used in their timeline. I'm able to accurately generate that using zero point,  timebase and start/end for track items,  and was hoping to be able to do the same with respect to the track items associated source clip (project item). Cheers Andy ... View more

Hey Thomas If I understand it correctly, registering an interest in key events is intended to prevent the registered key event from being sent to the host application. Is that right? I'm pretty green at this and trying to learn. If so, I think Bryson is asking for the opposite. In Bryson's case (and in mine as it turns out) ... and with Bruce's PPro panel ... it seems that keyboard presses are not passed to the host application (Premiere) by default. Open the sample PPro Panel, then press the spacebar... does your computer 'beep' back at you, or does the spacebar action get passed to Premiere and thus the application starts/stops sequence playback? On my machine I just hear a 'beep' and the playhead stays put. As Bryson describes, if I click anywhere in the panel's title area then 'spacebar' keyboard events are passed to Premiere (which is why I though it was working) ... but if I click anywhere within the body of the panel itself then 'spacebar' keyboard events are apparently intercepted and are not automatically passed to Premiere (although I can capture them with a window keypress listener if necessary and programmatically trigger a play/pause action using ExtendScript). I seem to recall there was a change in behaviour with regards to keyboard events and panels a year or so ago (CC2015.1?) and the default behaviour changed such that thereafter the host captured pretty much all key events unless you specifically registered for them (or something like that) ... and then at some later date it seems like that default behaviour changed again (I only surmise this because I had just cobbled together my first attempt at a panel a few days before the 2015.1 update which rather broke it...   and then I discovered it had magically started working again at some later point though I have no idea when). I just started dabbling in panel building again a couple of months ago, so as noted, still very green. Not entirely sure what is best practice is at this point. Thanks in advance for any wisdom you can offer. Andy ... View more

It should work (certainly works for me) ... try telling the button to lose focus after it's clicked eg $(this).blur() ... View more

Hey Bruce I think effectively what I'm saying is that a trackItem seems to have no unique identifier. When stepping through a sequence programatically one can confer a unique identity to each trackItem by referencing the item's track group, track number and clip number ... but there is nothing within a trackItem itself that is necessarily unique. As such, getLinkedItems() only tells me that the returned trackItems collectively make up all instances of a "linked clip" ... but that collection includes nothing that uniquely identifies where in the active sequence those clips are located. I can make a best guess by looking for any other trackItem that returns a matching "linked clip" collection ... but if duplicate linked items exist in the same sequence at the same start /end time (but on different tracks) then there seems to be no way for me to differentiate which items belong in which linked collection, as they will all appear to match. I guess from a users perspective, the simplest behaviour would be for every trackItem to have it's own unique identifier property, regardless of links and/or ancestry. The function getLinkedItems() could then continue to work as is, but the unique identifier inherent in the trackItems returned would allow a user to discern specifically which trackItems belong in which linked group. Alternatively, a trackItem could include a trackNumber property. Again, getLinkedItems() could continue to work as is, but the track number property, together with the existing properties, would allow a user to discern the unique identity of each trackItem. And another possibility is that I'm just missing something entirely obvious! Cheers Andy ... View more

Hey Kelly If jingtaotan's answer doesn't work, or isn't what you're after, have a try with: var result = app.openFCPXML( fileToOpen ) Or do you just want to read an arbitary XML and process it yourself? In that case var result = window.cep.fs.readFile(fileToOpen); And then use something like jQuery's parse XML to handle the result https://api.jquery.com/jQuery.parseXML/ Hope it helps Andy ... View more

Thx Bruce,  I hear you. Re my use case, I'm not trying to set the state, I'm just trying to get it... so my script can respect it's status (and ignore the item). Ah well. Would be great if some later version of the supported (or unsupported) API could expose that property. In the meantime I'll look at using an XML export to fill in the blanks. Andy ... View more

Cheers Bruce, Just for clarity, I'm referring to a sequence clip instance's "Enable" status, something which very much does exist at the UI level (e.g. the default Premeire Pro keyboard shortcut to toggle a sequence clip instance's Enable status is Cmd-Shift-E). A disabled clip, although present in the track, has no effect on the output. Thanks again Andy ... View more

Not sure if these things need votes etc, as it sounds like its actively being considered / worked on...  but for what it's worth, please add my vote! Anything you can do to facilitate better 'active selection' handling will be much appreciated. Really looking forward to whatever you guys can come up with. ... View more

This was a bug in CC2017 v11.0.1 ... it was a total pain in the backside,  but thankfully it was fixed in last week's update to v11.0.1. As per Peru Bob's suggestion,  make sure you're fully updated,  in my experience so far,  11.0.2 is a stable release. ... View more

Thanks again for your pointers Bruce. Didn't manage to get readFile to work but have implemented a FileReader method instead which seems to be working just fine. Cheers Andy ... View more

Hey Bruce Thanks for the quick reply. Yes, that is the sample code I'm working from ... I thought perhaps that it was my implementation of the code but it doesn't even work for me when directly using the 'CEP HTML Test Extension' either. As a test, please try this yourself if you have the time: 1) Open a Premiere Pro project 2) Create a new Title element 3) Select the Title element in the project window and export it (File > Export) as a Title (.prtl) file. 4) Open the CEP HTML Test Extension and select the Native Functions tab 5) Use File APIs > File Open Dialog to get the path of the Title (.prtl) file you just exported. 6) Use File APIs > Read File with the path to your Title (.prtl) file to read the data Is the text of your Title (.prtl) file displayed? It's not working here on my iMac ... didn't occur to me that it might be specific to my system/install, but if so, it would certainly explain why I'm having so much trouble with my code! Thanks Andy ... View more

Issue no 5. is also a known bug...  it's been around for six months or so. The workaround is here: Timecode Overlay disappears in PP 2015.3 Issue no 6 ... I find that the more sequences/complexity in my projects, the slower they are to access through Media Browser (and for that matter, the slower they are to open in Premiere itself). To alleviate this, rather than creating backup / reference / alternate copies of working sequences within my projects, I now use 'File > Export > Selection as Premiere Project' to save individual sequences as individual project files. This dramatically reduces the size and complexity of my working project... and when I need to access backup/reference/alternate sequences, I can open those single sequence projects via Media Browser pretty quickly/responsively. ... View more

It's not possible from within the Media Browser window, as far as I know, James ... Possible workarounds: If your search parameters are always the same then you could set up operating system level Smart Folders/Save Searches to preselect the files you'll need... then you can access those folders through Premiere's Media Browser window. Otherwise, maybe try using Premiere's "File > Import" method for this particular situation instead? On a Mac, that uses a standard OS X "open" window, so you can make use of the general search tool embedded in that window. Or you could import using 'Drag and Drop' to bring files directly into your project from a Finder window (Mac) or File Explorer window (Windows). That method would allow you make use of the operating system's built in search tools, to display only the files you want/need. Hope it helps Andy ... View more

That is a far from exhaustive list Jeba. ... View more

It's falling over a the tip of a hat here Bill. 2 edit suites,  one being a brand spanking new OS and CC install   Yes, perhaps it's taken a dislike to long form MPEG HD422 documentaries. Has certainly been more stable in the past. ... View more

>I CLEARLY STATED the audio track gets stripped regardless of the location of the file. By the way, the location - external or internal - should make zero difference. It's still only 1's and 0's being read. Something is WRONG with Premier Pro 2017 and I'm not the only one who has complained or noted this. You're absolutely correct on both counts. The location of the media should be of zero consequence (other than speed of operation). And Premiere CC2017 is horribly unstable, even with new projects.   ... View more