Export Markers (Solved until Adobe provides something better)

[Sam Alexander]

Thanks very much for contributing Ed. Your original one was useful when I was making automated edits based on music and came in quite handy. I appreciate you contributing and helping – I will try this out in CS6 when I can.

[Lucas Van rossum]

hi Evgeny, how should i run this script? Is this an ahk script ?

regards lucas

[Evgeny Malcev]

Just save it as ahk.
Then modify first 3 lines with your data.
ProjectFile = C:\fin33.prproj
SequenceName = sequence 01
MarkerListFile = E:\1.txt ; will be deleted and recreated after script starts.
Then start this script and you will get text file with markers.
https://f1.creativecow.net/file/6233/6233_markers.ahk.zip

[Evgeny Malcev]

My version of the AHK script which parses CS6 project and exports markers to the text file.
Just modify the first 3 lines with your path of project, name of sequence and name of exported txt.
https://f1.creativecow.net/file/7180/7180_markerscs6.ahk.zip

[Sam Alexander]

Thanks again for the update! I will try this on CS6 soon. Greatly appreciate that you are still updating this script and this thread.

[Evgeny Malcev]

Version of the AHK script which parses CC project and exports markers to the text file.
1) Change extension of project file from pproj to zip.
2) Extract it.
3) Modify the first 3 lines with your path of extracted project, name of sequence and name of exported txt.
https://f1.creativecow.net/file/7204/7204_markerscc.ahk.zip

[Evgeny Malcev]

I have updated my AHK script which parses CS6 project file and exports markers to the text file.
Just modify the first 3 lines with your data.
https://f1.creativecow.net/file/7205/7205_markerscs6.ahk.zip

[Micz Kicz]

Ed – You are pure awesome!!!! And Evgeny – I am gratefull for the downloadable files and CS6 version a Lot!

I’m trying to customise this script a bit for my purposes, and – since my knowledge of scripting is none (amateur at best) – I’m trying to google/experiment/understand (googlestand) it till the satistyfing result.

I have achieved some, but little:

got rid of “Marker 1”, “Comment: “, and “Timecode: ” adnotations to get the result text file containg only strict data.

Also I was able to change the way data is presented – in my version records are devided by “Tab”, not by “Enter” and therefore it is better material to copy and paste it into Excel spreadsheet (Tabs are read as separators by Excel and all records end smoothly in their respective columns).

Now I’m stuck at bigger challenges:

1 – tell the script to run trough the prproj file and get from it a list of all Sequences

2 – create separate result marker list text file for each Sequence found in prproj

3 – give the resulting text files names coppied from respective Sequences names

Evgeny, could You please guide me a bit? Which parts of the script I should look at, to googlestand how to achieve what I’m aiming for? Or – more widely – which commands from the script language I should google to make use of them in my case.

If you (or anybody feeling able to) could help me, it would be awesome!

[Evgeny Malcev]

Sorry. I do not have Premiere CS6 anymore. And therefore can not help You to parse its project. But I think it will be not so easy.

[Micz Kicz]

Ahhhh, ….NOW I have noticed the date of your earlier posts, and it’s 2 years ago, so I’m literally “exhuming” the topic. Sorry 🙂

Thanks for the reply though! I appreciate it.

Creative Creature 🙂