Since you probably don't want to search & replace, bun instead just to a basic replace of project item names, I wrote a new tool for you to do that. Download it here:  https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/a715bv5dz1dq3ty10ehtc/Batch-Rename-Project-Items-with-Spreadsheet.xml?rlkey=rkgk541no83stk1qacbuwwevp&dl=0 Here is a tutorial showing it in action: ... View more

Can you descibe this in more detail? best share a screen recording of that you are doing. The code explicitly does the search on all kinds of project items, not just sequences, so it is no surprise that it renames bins, too. Also note that it does a search and replace in the names, so if you rename "Youtube_01" to "foo", it will also rename "YouTube_12" to "foo2", since it finds the "YouTube_1" also in "Youtube_12". ... View more

Thanks a lot for the feedback - great to hear that it is working now. For issues with reading/writing csv also see the links at the bottom of this page: https://docs.mamoworld.com/automation-blocks/block-reference/filesSpreadsheet#troubleshooting-spreadsheet-issues ... View more

There are some (paid) extension on aescripts:   First, there is Clips Exporter https://aescripts.com/clips-exporter/ and then if you also want to automate all kinds of other things in Pr, my Automation Blocks for Pr also comes with an example named Render Clips of Sequence to export all clips individually. It loops over all clips of the sequence and adds each of them to the render queue individually (with the in and out poinits of the segment used in the sequence). I think the main difference is that Clips Exporter exports the segments of the sequence (including all effects applied in the sequence) whereas Automation Blocks renders the clips (i.e. the source items in the project panel) without any effects you might have applied in the sequence. So this is a question of what exactly you need. Great thing about Automation Blocks is that you can customize the automations. Better Editor created a variant of the original example with an improved UI, for example:   ... View more

Since you mention vector: My (paid) After Effects extension iExpressions has an expression which can generate a vector shape for a waveform of your audio. So you could create this big shape and then just need to animate its position to move from start to finish during playback. But this is just a static shape, so if you are looking for fancy animations, @Kevin-Monahan's suggestion with the audio spectrum is the better option.   ... View more

Looks almost good! Just plug the purple block inside the green one. Currently it is only executed once, after the spreadsheet has been read. If you plug it inside, it is executed many times, namely once for each row of the spreadsheet and this is what you want: ... View more

Hi Sam, Bruce Bullis knows everything about the scripting engine and he says that there is no way to apply custom presets via scripting, unfortunately: https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/extendscript-import-effect-preset-file/td-p/10848271     ... View more

If you look for an easy way to create extensions for Premiere Pro, my (paid) extension Automation Blocks for Pr is also an option. You can build your own custom automations - even with user inferfaces - by combining visual blocks instead of writing program code. We also have the Community Library, where you can share what you created. ... View more

Thanks for sharing! I looked at your code and it looks like your delay code works, but it can actually be simplified. I recommend to replace the full delay code by simply $.sleep(2000) to wait 2000 milliseconds. ... View more

I also added a description of this workaround with the execute file block now here to the documentation: https://docs.mamoworld.com/automation-blocks/block-reference/filesText/#forcing-file-writes-to-disk   ... View more

Hi Emanuelle, oh, yes, this is a very good observation! Automation Blocks has some performance optimizations, which result in files being usually saved only at the very end and not after each write operation (that saves a lot of time if you write a lot of content to a file step by step). Here is a version which uses an Execute Code block with the code $._extAutomationBlocks.all.fileCollection.cleanup() which forces Automoation Blocks to save all open files at that point. ... View more

As far as I know, new sequences are always created based on a preset and their widht and height cannot be changed later using scripting. Therefore, I don't see a way of creating sequences automatically without creating preset files for them in advance. BUT sqpreset files are normal xml files (i.e. text files) so you can create them with Automation Blocks. This script writes for each row of the spreadsheet a file "temp.sqpreset" on your desktop and then uses this sqpreset file to create a sequence of the respective size. I didn't test this code but I think it should work: ... View more

Hi Mike,   are you using graphics templates created in Premiere Pro or in After Effects? Unfortunately, Premiere Pro's scripting engine (and hence also Automation Blocks) has only access to the texts of templates created in After Effects.   See this video at about  3:23 ... View more

Here is a block script, which applies an expression to the Position property of all selected layers of the active comp. You can modify the block code easily to use another property instead of position - just select another property (no matter on which layer exactly) and click the "refresh" icon as indicated in the screenshot.   I made the block code such that you can enter the actual expression code in the input panel. Of course, you can also use a popup instead of enter the expresssion code directly inside the block code. I just added this block script to the Community Library  here is the direct download to the block script file:  Layer Properties/Expressions/Apply Expression to Position of All Selected Layers.xml   ... View more

Could it be that the script gets confused by multiple layers having the same layer name? Does it work if your layers have a unique layer name (you could achieve that by writing an additional Automation Blocks script which adds a unique number (like counter) to the end of the name, for example). ... View more

I also added the script to the Community Library now at Project Management/Save and Close/Increment Version And Save.xml   ... View more

Great to hear that Automation Blocks is so useful for you! If you open the block code of the slideshow ("right click->expand" on the block with the implementation) you find this section, which finds all images and music files in the folder. You can easily extend it such that it also finds videos using an "or" block and second copy of the "file has type" block:     Scripts in general and hence also Automation Blocks can neither remote-operate BeatEdit nor create captions, unfortunatly.  What you could do is first run BeatEdit manually and then write a script which loops over the markers and inserts a clip at each of them. But currently we have no ready to use script for that. Also note that although they are muchmore basic than BeatEdit, also Automation Blocks has some tools to create beat markers. So if you need a fully automated method, you could also ask the user to enter a bpm and then let Automation Blocks create the markers based on that. ... View more

Honestly, I have no idea what goes wrong here. Does it make any difference if you not only set the in-point of the clip in the sequence, but also the in-point of the project item? You should be able to set it using the Set Attribute of Project Item block and giving it "my clip" as argument. Automation Blocks will convert the clip to the corresponding project item for you. ... View more

Oh, I see: In the other script you linked, in the "if true" case (i.e. if the inpoint is 0) we keep the inpoint unchanged and only if it is NOT 0, we subtact something from it. In your code, you subtract something in both cases. Also, what exactly do you mean with  "Clip 1 should start a 1:06, but starts at :19 Clips 2 and 3 should start at  :20, but start at :19" The inpoint should be at 1:06 but is at 0:19 or the start time in the sequence? Are you sure that the new assets are long enough, or maybe they are simply too short to start at 1:06 and still have the required length? Are ... View more

If the changes are correct, but not permanent this sounds like a bug  or some kind of caching issue with the scripting API Your test block also looks suspicious to me: If the inpoint is <= 0, then subtracting a tiny number from it will make it a negative value. But the inpoint must always be 0 or greater.   @Bruce Bullis are you aware of bugs where setting the inpoint of a clip in the sequence appears to work, but when rendering or saving and reloading the project the change is gone again? ... View more

Feature request noted 🙂 That's on my feature request list already, but I cannot promise if/when it will happen. ... View more