Concerning the sorting: I think this will be done much easier in the spreadsheet application than in Automtion Blocks. If you still want to do it with Automation Blocks, the most promising appropach will be to ask ChatGPT to write a function for that task and then execute it with an Execute Code block. In general, asking ChatGPT to only implemment certain functions for you instead of generating full block scripts is much more reliable. Here I asked ChatGPT for a function to read a csv file, and save a copy of it which is sorted by a given index (block script attached). See the full conversation with ChatGPT here. ... View more

Hi Jared, great to hear that Automation Blocks for Premiere Pro is so handy for you 🙂 To add an index to the spreadsheet export you need to create a variable which counts the rows and increase it with each new row you export.  Here is a very basic example. The first block script exports the names of all clips of the active sequence to a spreadsheet. In the second script, I extended that code such that in addition to the name now also the row number is written to the spreadsheet: ... View more

I think this Automation Blocks script is doing what you want: Block script XML is attached such that you can load it into your Automation Blocks user library. Then just restart Automation Blocks and you find the script in your Automation Blocks library. To use the script: 1) once the script is loaded, the inputs panel of Automation Blocks contains a folder input where you need to pick the root folder. 2) run the script   ... View more

If you don't want to create a full CEP panel, you can execute ExtendScript with my (paid) extension Automation Blocks. Just create a new block script with a single "execute code" block to execute your jsx as described here: https://docs.mamoworld.com/automation-blocks/block-reference/aeOther#executing-jsx-files   ... View more

This block script for Automation Blocks for Pr assumes that - you have a bin "videos" with footage files - a sequence named "start" in the root bin   (xml block script attached so you can place it directly in your user library) ... View more

I just tested with this little sample code and it works fine for me also if the comp "2kcomp" is not the active comp. (block code xml attached such that you can try yourself)   ... View more

As described in this discussion,  unfortunately, there is no way to insert only the video of a clip without audio. But also in that discussion, @merlincinematic explains a workaround: 1. lock all audio tracks 2. insert the clips (this will insert the audio on a new track, since all existing ones are locked) 3. delete the new audio track again.   I extended the script from yesterday, such that it now uses exactly this workaround to only insert video. You find it in the Community Library at Sequence/Populate/Insert Clips into Tracks of Active Sequence At CTI Grouped by Label Color Skip Audio.xml ... View more

I also asked ChatGPT to create such an Automation Blocks tool now. It took me a little conversation and the first two versions didn't work but the third suggestion by ChatGPT works, too. You can see the full conversation with ChatGPT here: https://chatgpt.com/share/6824a0d5-fcbc-8004-9328-33f07c0549de   ChatGPT uses the Premiere Pro scripting APII directly, therefore, the produced code is much less readable: The ChatGPT tool only has the limitation that it only processes the first selected clip. And very interesting: Also in this one the. audio is inserted always in the same track number like the video. And this happens even though the ChatGPT code explicitly attempts to insert in aTrackIndex 0 (i.e. A1). I think this is a bug in the Premiere Pro scripting engine, that it does not work to insert in a different audio track index. And if I remember correctly, that's why in Automation Blocks I didn't add this as an option at all. I attached the tool created by ChatGPT, since I am not sure if they stay on the ChatGPT servers or are deleted there soon. ... View more

Concerning the first tool: I just added this to the Community Library for you:   Sequence/Populate/Insert Clips into Tracks of Active Sequence At CTI Grouped by Label Color.xml   It inserts all currently selected project items into the active sequence at the current time. Based ono their label color, they are inserted either in V3 (brown item), V2 (yellow items) or V1 (all other items). Here is the block code explained: As you can see, I first sort the selected project items into lists. I do that, because then all selected brown items can be inserted into the active sequence using a single call of the "add pproject items" block. If we would insert each of them separately, they would all start at the current time and replace/overwrite each other. But now, only the first inserted clip in each track starts at the current time and the next one starts where the previous one ends. Currently, Clips which insert their video in V3 insert their audio in A3, not A1. I think there is no way to avoid this, since the add project items block has no separate inputs for audio and video track (that would be a good feature request, though).       ... View more

Thanks for sharing! I think I don't fully understand your workflow - what you have in the end is no a music video, but only a timeline, where you can easily find the location of beats and bars (based on the markers and clip start points), right? If this is your goal, with my (paid) extension BeatEdit for Pr, you can create such markers very easily directly in Pr. The markers are also color coded, such that you can see every 8th beat very easily (it loops through 8 marker colors). ... View more

You could for example retrieve the list of layers and then remove the last entry from that list before looping over them.   Here is an example where I alert the names of all layers of the active comp except the last one (block code attached)     ... View more