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Add Track audio/video to sequence

Explorer ,
Mar 16, 2017 Mar 16, 2017

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It there a way to add a new audio or video track into a sequence?

The way it would be used it to import footage into an existing sequence, but create a new track and import the clip onto that so that nothing would be overwritten?

Is this possible or offered yet?

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Adobe Employee , Mar 21, 2017 Mar 21, 2017

As Andy points out, the only way to do such track insertion today requires the unsupported QE DOM API.

That will change, with our next major release...

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Engaged ,
Mar 17, 2017 Mar 17, 2017

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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

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Adobe Employee ,
Mar 21, 2017 Mar 21, 2017

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As Andy points out, the only way to do such track insertion today requires the unsupported QE DOM API.

That will change, with our next major release...

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Enthusiast ,
Jan 10, 2018 Jan 10, 2018

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Bruce Bullis wrote

That will change, with our next major release...

By my calculations, this "next major release" refers to Premiere Pro CC v12.0, which was released a few months ago. Any word on this? I've added a feature request but would love to close/delete it if the APIs were already available!

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As andymees@aje​ points out, this is somewhat manageable through the very unsupported QE [Quality Engineering] DOM. The specific commands to run are:

// Tell Premiere Pro to inject the QE DOM object "qe" into the ExtendScript global environment.

app.enableQE();

// Grab a reference to the Active Sequence. This is not the standard ActiveSequence type you

//  typically access in Premiere Pro APIs. It is a QE-specific version with a long list of

//  custom APIs.

var seq = qe.project.getActiveSequence();

// Add Track(s) to the Active Sequence. Testing has shown that the integer value passed in

//  specifies the Number of Video Tracks to add. The API will ALWAYS add one Audio track. You

//  can add just an audio track by passing in 0. From what I can tell there is no way to add

//  a video track without also adding the audio track.

seq.addTracks(0);  // Adds 1 Audio Track and 0 Video Tracks

seq.addTracks(2);  // Adds 1 Audio Track and 2 Video Tracks

seq.addTracks(8);  // Adds 1 Audio Track and 8 Video Tracks

There may be a way to add a video track without also adding the audio track (or even a way to add a specified number of audio tracks with no video tracks), but I've not divined it. Please note that the above appears to work on Premiere Pro CC v12.0.0. No guarantee that this works in any other version.

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Adobe Employee ,
Jan 10, 2018 Jan 10, 2018

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You're right, that next major version has come and gone, and track additions haven't made it into the light of day.

I was wrong; it remains in the backlog. You now better understand why I usually write "We PLAN to change that in the next version".

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Enthusiast ,
Jan 10, 2018 Jan 10, 2018

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https://forums.adobe.com/people/Bruce+Bullis  wrote

You now better understand why I usually write "We PLAN to change that in the next version".

Hah! I literally thought that I might have missed something because you didn't mention that!

I says to myself, I says "That Bruce fellow is usually so careful! So particular! Guess this means that it's already added to internal builds of their 'Next Release' branch..."

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Explorer ,
Jun 21, 2019 Jun 21, 2019

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Any update on this? Would really love to be able to add track via ExtendScript. And I'd REALLY love to be able to add video and audio tracks independent of each other

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Adobe Employee ,
Jun 21, 2019 Jun 21, 2019

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No update.

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Community Beginner ,
Apr 21, 2020 Apr 21, 2020

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Hello. Any update on this? 

Thanks

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Engaged ,
Dec 17, 2018 Dec 17, 2018

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not sure if this solves the issue, but i just dragged a new video into my sequence, which created a new audio track below my track 3. so now i have 4 audio tracks. i remember adding an audio track being easier...maybe i just can't find what used to be more obvious...

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Adobe Employee ,
Dec 17, 2018 Dec 17, 2018

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That's a great way to force additional tracks.

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New Here ,
Mar 27, 2020 Mar 27, 2020

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Is ther anyway to add additional Video and Audio tracks that are stacked directly on top of each other as opposed to separated by V1 and A1? I am trying to do this so that I can move cut portions out of the way (either up or down) without having to separate the A and V tracks. 

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Explorer ,
Feb 10, 2021 Feb 10, 2021

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I dont think that will ever happen. Even with QE you can only add tracks under the curent ones and its been 4 years.

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Community Beginner ,
Feb 03, 2022 Feb 03, 2022

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If it helps, I kind of worked out some of the parameters for seq.addtracks().

There are : seq.addtracks( how many video tracks add, after witch video track add them, how many audio tracks add,

the type of aidio track to add (0 - mono 1 - stereo 2 - 5:1), after witch audio track add them, how many submix tracks add  the type of submix aidio track to add (0 - mono 1 - stereo 2 - 5:1))

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