Video Usage access for Footage

[jportell25]

Within the Project Panel's Metadata Display, I have been using the "Video Usage" feature to tell if any of my clips have been used.

Is there a way to access this info? I would like to combine all unused footage into a bin at the end of a project?

[e_d_]

There is...

app.project.rootItem[index].getProjectMetadata();

This should give you an XML object with all of the metadata being presented in the metadata panel of Premiere.

Inside there is a child "<premierePrivateProjectMetaData:Column.Intrinsic.VideoUsage>".

It seems it is a string though, but this you can split as well by above string to give you the number.

You can also wrap it into an XML object

var theXML = new XML(app.project.rootItem.children[2].getProjectMetadata());

and eventually you will find the correct child.

var usageCount = theXML.child(0).child(0).child('premierePrivateProjectMetaData:Column.Intrinsic.VideoUsage');

Depends on what you're trying to achieve.