Assume new framerate to imported sequence

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Assume new framerate to imported sequence

Posted by Tom Pinnes on January 17, 2021 at 7:09 pm

Hello,

I am trying to create a script that imports an image sequence and changes the framerate to 1 and creates a comp, however I can’t seem to find a way to do it.

Here’s my code so far-

var importFolder = new File (“c:\\”); // Set default import folder

var myImportFolder = importFolder.openDlg(“Select files to import”,”*.tif”,true).toString(); /// Select import folder path

var myImportOptions = new ImportOptions(File(myImportFolder)); /// Import options

myImportOptions.importAs = ImportAsType.FOOTAGE;

myImportOptions.sequence = true; /// Import sequence

myImportOptions.forceAlphabetical = true; /// Force alphabetical

var newSequence = app.project.importFile(myImportOptions); /// Set new import files to var

var frameRate = newSequence.frameRate;

var compHeight = newSequence.height;

var compWidth = newSequence.width;

var vidName = newSequence.name;

var duration = newSequence.duration*frameRate +1;

var myComp = app.project.items.addComp(vidName, compWidth, compHeight,1.0,duration,1.0);

myComp.layers.add(newSequence); /// Add layers to comp

myComp.displayStartTime = 1; /// Set start time to 1

app.project.item(1).openInViewer();

I’m getting a 240 frames footage instead of 7200 (30 fps).

Thanks in advance !

Tom Pinnes replied 5 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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Filip Vandueren

January 19, 2021 at 12:05 pm

Hi Tom,

try this:

var importFolder = new File ("c:\\"); // Set default import folder
var myImportFolder = importFolder.openDlg("Select files to import","*.tif",true).toString(); /// Select import folder path
var myImportOptions = new ImportOptions(File(myImportFolder)); /// Import options
myImportOptions.importAs = ImportAsType.FOOTAGE;
myImportOptions.sequence = true; /// Import sequence
myImportOptions.forceAlphabetical = true; /// Force alphabetical
var newSequence = app.project.importFile(myImportOptions); /// Set new import files to var

newSequence.mainSource.conformFrameRate = 1; // force the imported file to have framerate 1
app.executeCommand(2796); // do "New Comp from Selection"
myComp = app.project.activeItem;

// fix the things that weren't set by default
myComp.name = newSequence.name;
myComp.displayStartTime = 1;

myComp.openInViewer();

Tom Pinnes
January 23, 2021 at 2:20 pm

Hey Filip, thanks for that. Very neat looking code

I also never knew about executeCommand too, that’s very cool!

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