[Jon Smith]

I figured it out. I had to relayout the JSON to look like this:

{
“item”: [
{
“name”: “Item 1 Name”,
“parameter”: “Item 1 parameter”,
},
{
“name”: “Item 2 Name”,
“parameter”: “Item 2 parameter”,
},
{
“name”: “Item 3 Name”,
“parameter”: “Item 3 parameter”,
}
]
}

Then this works:
myData = eval(footage(“sample.json”).sourceData);
myData.item[0].name; // returns “Item 1 Name”

[Jon Smith]

Thanks Xavier! That second response was exactly what I was looking for.

[Jon Smith]

That’s a great solution! Thanks David

[Jon Smith]

Ahhh, that makes sense.

A simplified explanation of what I’m trying to do is… I have a ton of layers that I want to move in several different ways. I was hoping I can select a bunch and label them “blue” and they move one way and select other layers and label then “red” and they move another way. It’s more complicated then just moving but that’s the idea. I can use a check box or something but it just takes a lot longer. Maybe I can do it with markers or something. Any ideas are much appreciated. Thanks!

[Jon Smith]

That doesn’t work for me. Seems like once it determines which instance to link itself to it can’t be changed until that instance is deleted from the timeline. It’s not a biggie. Thanks for looking into it.

[Jon Smith]

Hmmm… Changing the order doesn’t appear to effect it.

I was able to get it to change the relationship by deleting all instances of the precomp except for the one I wanted to be linked and then immediately undoing the delete action. That seems to revert everything back to the way it was except for that link. I thought maybe there was a better way but this will work I suppose. Thanks!

[Jon Smith]

Thanks as always!

[Jon Smith]

I was afraid of that. Thanks Dan.

[Jon Smith]

That worked like a charm. The trick is to create a sequence with all the footage in Premiere before exporting the XML. Thanks Todd!

[Jon Smith]

All of the footage exists on a server. Ideally I would like to import all the source footage without having to duplicate it during the collecting process. We’re dealing with terabytes of footage so it becomes a time and space killer.