Importing images as a sequence in Adobe Premiere Pro using extendscript

[nom666]

So I've been looking around and trying to find a way of importing image sequences in Adobe Premiere Pro using extendscript.

I can import separate single files using: app.project.importFiles(new Folder(folder_path));

But I can't give an option of importing these images as a sequence.

I tried using opts = new ImportOptions(new File("path_to_image")); opts.sequence = true; and calling this within app.project.importFiles(opts) but Premiere doesn't seem to support ImportOptions, I keep getting an error stating "Import Options does not have a constructor"....

I'm assuming Premiere Pro doesn't support ImportOptions?

Is there any other way of importing an image sequence using app.project.importFiles?

Thanks!

[Ashley7]

Try to instantiate ImportOptions using the default constructor (iow, without constructor parameters). Then set props.

Possibly helpful...

Import a file or folder with scripting

The above link/thread was my first web search attempt ("extendscript project importfiles")... you may look at other results for more info.

[nom666]

I tried that too. It just looks like ImportOptions doesn't exist in the Premiere world at all. Just gives me an error.

ImportOptions doesn't show up anywhere in the Data Browser either sadly(ExtendScript Toolkit).

Is there any other way of importing image sequences without using ImportOptions?

(I tried replicating an exported XML of an image sequence, in order to reconstruct the XML and import that instead, but when I import the XML only the first frame of the image sequence shows up sadly..)

[Ashley7]

nom666  wrote

Is there any other way of importing image sequences without using ImportOptions?

Stepping back for a minute... what are you focused on extendscript? If you were simply searching for ways to automate Premiere... did you check out this page see its options? https://www.adobe.io/apis/creativecloud/premierepro.html

Adobe Premiere Pro SDK for plugin & extension development | Adobe I/O

I basically clicked the documentation URL link/button and it led to the following...

Samples/PProPanel at master · Adobe-CEP/Samples · GitHub

...there's some mention of automating import-related operations in the readme.md ,,, there's a link to importing files where the link itself is bad... goes to a stale URL but if you look at the URL you can infer how to browser to Premiere.jsx...

Samples/Premiere.jsx at master · Adobe-CEP/Samples · GitHub

...in the jsx code is commented out code with a comment "Here's how to import N sequences from a project."

Based on my experience with the above link, I would not get dissuaded by any bad links... look closely at the URLs to see if you can infer how to construct the right current URL... web search can sometimes be your friend here, including site:sitedomain constructs.

Unrelated to the above is the following thread on creativecow...

Scripting in Premiere Pro - Where to start : Adobe Premiere Pro

... the most recent post which is Jul 2017 (not long ago) and a person at Adobe offers an email address you can ping to get connected with the current info on automating Premiere.

Please excuse if you've already seen all the above.

I'm curious... any reason why not use built-in capabilities of Premiere or AE to build an image seq? If it's a "top secret" project no worries but I was just curious.

[nom666]

I've already built the tool that imports MOVs so everything is good. Just wanted to add a feature enabling this tool to import in image sequences as well. Importing single files using ExtendScript works quite well in Premiere, but there's unfortunately no option of telling Premiere to import a sequence of images.

I basically clicked the documentation URL link/button and it led to the following...

Samples/PProPanel at master · Adobe-CEP/Samples · GitHub​

...there's some mention of automating import-related operations in the readme.md ,,, there's a link to importing files where the link itself is bad... goes to a stale URL but if you look at the URL you can infer how to browser to Premiere.jsx...

Samples/Premiere.jsx at master · Adobe-CEP/Samples · GitHub

...in the jsx code is commented out code with a comment "Here's how to import N sequences from a project."

Based on my experience with the above link, I would not get dissuaded by any bad links... look closely at the URLs to see if you can infer how to construct the right current URL... web search can sometimes be your friend here, including site:sitedomain constructs.

Yes, when I started off, I had based my tool after referring to the GitHub samples provided by Adobe.

The import options they talk about there simply gives a dialog box for the user to choose what file he/she wants to import.

And the case of "importing N sequences from a project": This is basically the way of importing sequence objects (not image clips of continuous image-files as we are discussing here, but Premiere sequences) from one Premiere project into another.

I will post whatever solution/workaround I am able to find here..

Thank you so much for taking out time and helping me here

[Ashley7]

nom666  wrote

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I will post whatever solution/workaround I am able to find here..

Thank you so much for taking out time and helping me here

Sounds great... looking forward to hearing what happens.

[Ann Bens]

I am curious at that too.

Why scripting while its very easy to import image sequences the regular way.

[nom666]

The reason I'm scripting here is because I'm building a GUI based tool for some editors at a studio where folder structures are always set for projects, and all they have to do is select a project/sequence/shot and at the hit of a button the MOVs & Image Sequences are imported in.

[Ashley7]

nom666  wrote

... I'm building a GUI based tool for some editors ... where ... all they have to do is select a project/sequence/shot and at the hit of a button the MOVs & Image Sequences are imported in.

Very cool... I would contact the person at that Adobe dot com address at that link I referenced. It wouldn't surprise me if get connected with someone who may want to hear your goals with this and point you in the right direction for this automation. I can't say one way or another, but perhaps there's something already available as a boilerplate that they have... you might consider asking if you contact that person. Best of luck with it.

It was this link (Jul 10, 2017 post at the bottom of the thread): Scripting in Premiere Pro - Where to start : Adobe Premiere Pro

[nom666]

Thanks a lot for your help guys, and thanks for pointing to the email Ashley, I will shoot an email to him and hopefully it leads me somewhere.

[Bruce Bullis · Accepted solution]

The last parameter to app.project.importFiles is a 0 or 1, to indicate whether or not to "interpret all the files referenced in the array-to-be-imported, as an image sequence".

See usage in PProPanel:

Samples/Premiere.jsx at master · Adobe-CEP/Samples · GitHub

[nom666]

Thank you so much Bruce!

That totally works

Much appreciated,

Cheers!

[john_jayd21181923]

how to delete audio of a video in a sequence premiere pro using extend script? can you please help me?

[Bruce Bullis]

That's not possible, with today's PPro API.

Such functionality has been requested before, and may be near the top of our API backlog...

[john_jayd21181923]

oh so thats why, is it just possible to read only the 1st row (A1) of the audio tracks and mute it?

[john_jayd21181923]

or to move the audio after the fist row to top? example :
The A3 will move to A2 then the A2 will move to A1

A3 - >  A2 -> A1

is that possible?

[Bruce Bullis]

You can mute individual clips, as well as tracks. No tracks will move (or renumber), as a result of that muting.

We're investigating the inclusion of functionality to 'unlink' a clip's audio and video, which (I think) would enable the requested behavior, in our forthcoming release.

[john_jayd21181923]

how about cutting/trimming a sequence? example i have a 5 minutes sequence and i want to cut between 3:00(inpoint) - 4:00(outpoint), so my sequence will then become a 4 minutes video. is that possible?

[Bruce Bullis]

You could create a subsequence of minutes 0 --> 3 of your sequence, a subsequence of minutes 4-5, then insert edit them into a new sequence.

Subsequence example code here.

[john_jayd21181923]

Thanks! I tried the code but it seems theres an error in this line:

if (vTrack.isTargeted()){

do you know what the source of this error?

[Bruce Bullis]

What version of PPro are you running [actual version in the about box]?

[john_jayd21181923]

It's ok now, thank you so much! I just updated my premiere pro to latest. By the way is there a feature that we can export all the videos and audios in the panels? Thanks

[Bruce Bullis]

is there a feature that we can export all the videos and audios in the panels?

Which panel? Are you attempting to transcode everything in the Project panel, or perform a "Consolidate and Transfer", like PPro's Project Manager?

[john_jayd21181923]

i want to get the items (videos and audios) that was imported and including the sequences in the project panel to be exported and the format will remain. thanks

[john_jayd21181923]

i want to export all of the files in project panel. Is it possible? thanks