Re: Exporting Thumbnails to spreadsheet with Autom...

Mathias Moehl · ‎Jan 07, 2025

This sounds like the script you are running uses the Get Attribute of Clip block with the option "start time in sequence" and "end time in sequence", and you want to change those to "in point" and "out point" instead. So it is just a matter of locating that block in the block code and changing these values.

Mathias Moehl · ‎Jan 06, 2025

Das hört sich so an, als wolltest du verschiedene, ziemlich komplexe Aktionen auf Keyboard Shortcuts legen. Meine (bezahlte) Extension Automation Blocks für Pr könnte dir da neue, zusätzliche Möglichkeiten eröffnen. Mit Automation Blocks kannst du beliebige Automatisierungen selbst erstellen und als kleine Programme abspeichern. Diese kannst du dann auch per Keyboard Shortcut oder von externen Apps ausführen, wie hier beschrieben: https://docs.mamoworld.com/automation-blocks/remoteExecution Um eine Idee davon zu bekommen, was möglich ist: Hier ist das Beispie "Scale Bump", was in der Beispiel-Bibliothek von Automation Blocks enthalten ist: https://docs.mamoworld.com/automation-blocks/tools-pr/keyframeTools#create-a-visual-focus-with-scale-bump Es erzeugt mit einem Klick gleich mehrere Keyframes auf der Skalierung, um diie Ebene kurz wachsen und dann wieder auf die Original-Größe schrumpfen zu lassen. Eigene Automatisierungen zu schreiben ist definitiv mit einer Lernkurve verbunden, eröffnet dann aber ungeahnte Möglichkeiten. https://docs.mamoworld.com/automation-blocks/tutorials-pr/firstSteps Viel Erfolg bei dem Projekt!

Mathias Moehl · ‎Jan 06, 2025

Oh, yes, I confused inPoint with startTimeInSequence. Therefore, the clips where inserted at the wrong time and therefore, you probably didn't see them at all. Here is a revised version, which also sets the end point properly: Setting the end point was actually a bit tricky, since we needed to coount how many clips we already inserted in order to adjust the end point of the correct clip. (See here how to create paths to access a particular clip) Code attached.

Mathias Moehl · ‎Jan 06, 2025

I haven't tested this code, but this should get you started: In a nutshell, I loop over all clips of V1 and insert foe each of them one copy in another video track. Which video track is used, is saved in the variable "track to insert to". This variable starts with value 2, hence, the first clip is inserted in V2. After each insertion, the value is increased by one, such that the next clip is inserted in V3 etc. the if statement checks if we have reached the last track we want to use. So instead of inserting at track V6, we go back to V2 again. (code attached)

Mathias Moehl · ‎Jan 05, 2025

I'm still trying to figure out how to get them inserted onto the proper tracks. By @Citizen_Sam Maybe you can get the trackName which should be a text like "V1" or "A3" and then Get a A Substring of that such that only "1" or "3" is left.

Mathias Moehl · ‎Jan 05, 2025

Oh, yes, you are right! I just checked by directly using Premiere Pro's API function to change this setting: Trying to set settings where the audioChannelType has been changed causes an error. That must also have been the reason why I removed it from Automation Blocks "set property" block. So unfortunately, it is read only.

Mathias Moehl · ‎Jan 04, 2025

Hi Sam, copy sequence content yes, this is suprisingly difficult to achieve. As far as I know, there is no API function to copy an entire clip including all the effects applied to it etc. The best you can do is loop over the clips of one sequence and inserting the same project item into the new sequence and then set its in and out point. But if the clip has any effects, transitions or other modifications on it, those will not be on duplicate, unfortunately. Sequence Audio Settings Have you tried to set the audio channel type?

Mathias Moehl · ‎Dec 24, 2024

This thread gives you some starting points: https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-ideas/how-do-i-export-a-shot-list-from-premiere-pro-with-thumbnails/idi-p/14466053

Mathias Moehl · ‎Dec 23, 2024

Does it help if you enable debugging for CEP12? https://aescripts.com/knowledgebase/index/view/faq/zxp-cep-extension-won-t-open/

Mathias Moehl · ‎Dec 20, 2024

Have you checked your marker panel? Maybe you have additional markers before the beginning of the sequence or after the end of the video content?

Mathias Moehl · ‎Dec 18, 2024

I just checked this and it seems to be a bug in Premiere Pro's scripting API. I reported this to the Premiere Pro team now. For now, your only option seems to be to loop over the content of your footage project and search for the project item.

Mathias Moehl · ‎Dec 17, 2024

and what do you get when you alert the Project Item itself instead of its parent bin?

Mathias Moehl · ‎Dec 16, 2024

You loop over "Bottom Layer to replace", but try to set the source of "Middle Layer to Replace". Is this really what you want? Also, I am not sure why you work with lists here. The "Set Attribute source item of layer(s)" block can either take a single layer and a single project item as arguments, or a list of layers and a list of project items. The latter case if for setting multiple layer sources in a single call. However, in that case, both lists must have the same length (like setting the project items of 10 layers needs 10 layers and 10 new project items). The error message "cannot convert this to a layer" suggests that you may have lists of different length or that the list contains entries which are no layers.

Mathias Moehl · ‎Dec 16, 2024

that should be the case, if the clip is located in the root bin of the project "theprojectname.prproj".

Mathias Moehl · ‎Dec 16, 2024

I guess your issue is the "set attribute project item of clip" block. For text clips, the text itself exists, but its attribute project item is null and cannot be set to anything else. I would wrap the "set attribute project item of clip" block into an if statement, where you check if( "get attribute project item of clip my clip" not equal null) That way you ensure that you never try to set the project item of a clip which has no corresponding project item.

Mathias Moehl · ‎Dec 13, 2024

With my (paid) extension Automation Blocks for Premiere Pro you could write a custom automation, which loops over your 600 projects, opens them one by one and looks at all project items contained in them. If a project item has the desired media path, the script could alert the current project.

Mathias Moehl · ‎Dec 12, 2024

Looks like you parented the two nulls in the middle, at the transition between the left and the right shape, to the parent null of the right shape. If you like the behavior on the left side, but not on the right side, maybe don't parent those two nulls to anything?

Mathias Moehl · ‎Dec 10, 2024

Automation Blocks can only read and modify the attributes of clips in a sequence, which are exposed by the scripting engine. But as Bruce mentioned in the other post, there is no API around everything. So you will be able to export and import the list of clips with in points and out points, for example, but not all other details like effects and transitions, for example.

Mathias Moehl · ‎Dec 08, 2024

It is a paid third party extension, which I am developing. You can get it here: https://aescripts.com/automation-blocks-for-premiere-pro/

Mathias Moehl · ‎Dec 08, 2024

We have no plans for such a feature at the moment. You could write an Automation Blocks script, which first exports a frame to an image file and then executes a custom bat file on Windows which itself runs a OCR tool like Tesseract on the exported file. On Mac OS you could execute a shell script instead of a bat file. But I haven't tried that yet and it would definitely be some work to set up such a pipeline.

Mathias Moehl · ‎Dec 08, 2024

You find it in the library that is included in Automation Blocks for Pr at Examples->Project Management->Project Items->Rename Items This tutorial shows how to use it:

Mathias Moehl · ‎Dec 08, 2024

Have you tried to use the Get Attribute of Clip, to retrieve the project item of the clip, and then use the Get Attribute of Project Item to retrieve the parent bin?

Mathias Moehl · ‎Dec 06, 2024

Hi Sam, best attach screenshots to your questions, such that me and others can understand the question quicker. Here is a step by step explanation what your code is doing: If you want to find the project item in all open projects, you need to loop over all open projects and all items within them explicitly until you found one with that name. Or, if you know in which project and in which bin it is, you can construct the path for that directly (i.e create a string as shown at "Path with project" here:https://docs.mamoworld.com/automation-blocks/block-reference/prProjectItems#accessProjectItem ).

Mathias Moehl · ‎Dec 06, 2024

I see. Here is a basic example which puts - in row 1 the name of the first clip and the name of the first marker - in row 2 the name of the second clip and the name of the second marker ... We use a variable "clip number" to count upwards with each iteration of the loop to know which clip number we are currently at. Then we can fetch the corresponding marker easily. Note that this expects that if you have 100 clips, you also need at least 100 markers. Also, maybe you want to use clip markers instead of sequence markers? Like just having one marker on each clip. Then the markers move with the clips if you move the clips around. And instead of doing the counting, you could just retrieve the first marker of "my clip" instead of a marker of the active sequence. Also, if markers are missing, the export will then always stop at the clip, which has no marker. With the sequence markers, the export will stop at the last marker and not really notice if one is missing inbetween.

Mathias Moehl · ‎Dec 05, 2024

Concerning your second question: Each "add row to spreadsheet" block adds a new row. If you keep fields empty while adding a row, they will stay empty when the next row is added. I also don't really understand why you want to have the marker data and the clip data in the same table. In your example, you have three markers and three clips, but clip 1 and marker 1 are not really related, right? There could be many more markers than clips or vice versa, so why should they be in the same row of the export. WOuld it not make sense to export markers and clips into two separate spreadsheets? Or keep it as is and have first a lot of rows with only clips and then a lot of rows with only markers.

Mathias Moehl · ‎Dec 05, 2024

Hi Evelyn, concerning the file path: Since they are just texts, instead of using a file block, you can create those with any text blocks: (code is attached).

Mathias Moehl · ‎Nov 28, 2024

And in order to add the audio file, you can add a "Add Project Items to Sequence" block to insert the music ast the beginning of the sequence in the audio track of your choice.

Mathias Moehl · ‎Nov 28, 2024

You probably want to use a script similar to the one I show here: https://docs.mamoworld.com/automation-blocks/tutorials-pr/batchSequenceCreation Instead of looping over multiple variants for first and second clip,you can also just use one variant for the end sequence (in that case you can skip one loop completely). You can also use sequence items instead of footage items as your clips. This will insert the sequences as nested sequences.

Mathias Moehl · ‎Nov 28, 2024

Thanks for sharing and great to hear that you could solve the issue 🙂

Mathias Moehl · ‎Nov 26, 2024

You can execute Automation Blocks scripts with hotkeys, but it needs Auto Hotkey or simlar external tools, as described here: https://docs.mamoworld.com/automation-blocks/remoteExecution Also, to turn a jsx script into an Automation Blocks tool, you need to wrap it into an Execute Code block: https://docs.mamoworld.com/automation-blocks/block-reference/prOther#pr_execute_code

Mathias Moehl

Mathias Moehl

Activity

Re: Exporting Thumbnails to spreadsheet with Autom...

Re: Frage/question: Erstellen von Shortcuts / Crea...

Re: Automation Blocks : Copying to Another tracks ...

Re: Automation Blocks : Copying to Another tracks ...

Re: Automation Blocks - Copying all video clips fr...

Re: Automation Blocks - Copying all video clips fr...

Re: Automation Blocks - Copying all video clips fr...

Re: Exporting Thumbnails to spreadsheet with Autom...

Re: AE25 CEP Sample Failed

Re: Export my sequence name to the spreadsheet usi...

Re: Automation Blocks - Sequence and Assets in Dif...

Re: Automation Blocks - Sequence and Assets in Dif...

Re: Automation Blocks - Set Attribute (source item...

Re: Automation Blocks - Sequence and Assets in Dif...

Re: Automation Blocks - Script Fails with Null Obj...

Re: Find project by the name of the video file use...

Re: Path to null parenting issue

Re: Export my sequence name to the spreadsheet usi...

Re: Export my sequence name to the spreadsheet usi...

Re: Export my sequence name to the spreadsheet usi...

Re: Automation Blocks - Find/Replace Text is anoth...

Re: Automation Blocks - Sequence and Assets in Dif...

Re: Automation Blocks - Sequence and Assets in Dif...

Re: Export my sequence name to the spreadsheet usi...

Re: Export my sequence name to the spreadsheet usi...

Re: Export my sequence name to the spreadsheet usi...

Re: Automation Blocks Stitching footage with 2 sta...

Re: Automation Blocks Stitching footage with 2 sta...

Re: Automation Blocks - Set Start Frame

Re: In premiere pro can an effect (mosaic) be appl...