Adobe Premiere scripting

Question

I want to automate a sequence of task on Adobe Premiere Pro CS6, thats all repeating tasks, and while doing manually consumes lots of time, :) that stars from: importing video file, image files, doc file-> making a sequence -> adding files on sequence with predefined height , width-> inserting scripts -> analyzing them -> adding marks on particular word on metadata-> and finally exporting it..

I want to make all these task automatically done with some scripts on adobe premier pro or anythign else...

appreciating

Answer 1

If you are on the PC platform, try having a look at a free windows automation package such a AutoIT or AutoHotKey. I have been using AutoHotKey for several years now and this tool can be used to automate pretty much anything you can think of. It is a scriping language, there is a learning curve, but easy to use if you follow the many tuts and samples out there.

Answer 2

It doesn't seem to be officially supported, mentioned or used much (maybe because most user think programming is 'nerdy' stuff and don't touch it?) - anyways:

• http://forums.adobe.com/message/5310306

Unfortunately the documentation is scare and I don't know which version may support scripting (and which OS).

Answer 3

Premiere is scriptable, as are the other Adobe Creative Suite apps, using their Extendscript API. Extendscript uses javascript. There's an official Adobe IDE for it called Extendscript Toolkit, that has a script editor, debugger and a object model viewer.

There's one problem, for premiere the documentation is perplexingly scarce. It's a pity, because for other programs like After Effects there is a thriving community of developers doing amazing stuff with extendscript.

The Adobe Javascript guide is here and some class information specifically for Premiere can be found here.