How to differentiate between normal clips and sub-clips

[emam-dev]

Hi All,

How to differentiate between normal clips and sub-clips using Premiere extendscipt API?

Like the ProjectItemType.FILE and ProjectItemType.BIN;

We Cannot use ProjectItemType because for normal clips and subclips its value is ProjectItemType.CLIP only

Thanks and Regards,

ANOOP NR

[e_d_]

Hi Anoop,

there is a difference in the metadata.

If you use app.project.rootItem.children.getProjectMetadata(); , you'll have 3 entries like

<premierePrivateProjectMetaData:Column.Intrinsic.SubclipStart>hh:mm:ss:ff</premierePrivateProjectMetaData:Column.Intrinsic.SubclipStart>

<premierePrivateProjectMetaData:Column.Intrinsic.SubclipEnd>hh:mm:ss:ff</premierePrivateProjectMetaData:Column.Intrinsic.SubclipEnd>

<premierePrivateProjectMetaData:Column.Intrinsic.SubclipDuration>hh:mm:ss:ff</premierePrivateProjectMetaData:Column.Intrinsic.SubclipDuration>

which are the only direct indication that the projectItem is a subclip, so basically you just need to regex-match against the above result if you need "binary" handling (do something or don't).

[Bruce Bullis]

What will that differentiation allow you to do, Anoop?

app.project.FindItemsMatchingMediaPath() will give you all instances of that same file in the project, but users can import multiple such instances without making any subclips...