Python - Import clips with .AddItemsToMediaPool

Hi. I am working on some automation for DVR and got the following issue. I have a .txt file that contains python created links to clips (with the full path) for import into resolve. Like this:

clip_import.txt

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'/Volumes/RAID/Data/Media/TWO_CHAIRS/footage/FW_A01_2021-12-12_2002_C0127/FW_A01_2021-12-12_2002_C0127_000000.dng', '/Volumes/RAID/Data/Media/TWO_CHAIRS/footage/FW_A01_2021-12-12_2003_C0129/FW_A01_2021-12-12_2003_C0129_000000.dng', '/Volumes/RAID/Data/Media/TWO_CHAIRS/footage/FW_A01_2021-12-12_2003_C0130/FW_A01_2021-12-12_2003_C0130_000000.dng',

I am loading the .txt file as follows: (python 3.6.8)

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# Read the search result clipList
with open("/Volumes/audio/TRANSCRIBE/SearchPhrases/" + searchPhrase + ".txt") as f:
    clipListRead = f.readlines()
    print('cliplistRead: ' + str(clipListRead))


Here is the OUTPUT:

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["'/Volumes/RAID/Data/Media/TWO_CHAIRS/footage/FW_A01_2021-12-12_2002_C0127/FW_A01_2021-12-12_2002_C0127_000000.dng', '/Volumes/RAID/Data/Media/TWO_CHAIRS/footage/FW_A01_2021-12-12_2003_C0129/FW_A01_2021-12-12_2003_C0129_000000.dng', '/Volumes/RAID/Data/Media/TWO_CHAIRS/footage/FW_A01_2021-12-12_2003_C0130/FW_A01_2021-12-12_2003_C0130_000000.dng', '/Volumes/RAID/Data/Media/TWO_CHAIRS/footage/FW_A01_2021-12-12_2003_C0131/FW_A01_2021-12-12_2003_C0131_000000.dng', "]

I created a variable called clipListRead (see above) and plugged that into the code below:

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clips = resolve.GetMediaStorage().AddItemsToMediaPool(clipListRead)

But that does not work for some reason. My question is: Do I need to create an object or an array to make this work? Or is this a DVR API issue? Any other tricks to this? The focus seems to be on what can be plugged into that function provided by the DVR API. AddItemsToMediaPool(??????). I couldn't find anything in the docs so far.
As a note, the same code below (path filled in by hand) works fine and is the correct format to import the two clips into resolve.

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clips = resolve.GetMediaStorage().AddItemsToMediaPool('/Volumes/RAID/Data/Media/TWO_CHAIRS/footage/FW_A0_C0135/FW_A0_C0135_000000.dng', '/Volumes/RAID/Data/Media/TWO_CHAIRS/footage/FW_A0_C0135/FW_A0_C0135_000000.dng',)

Thank you!
MacOS 10.13.2. | DVR v15.3.1 | Python 3.6.8

hi,

have you try something like :

for oneClip in clipListRead:
clips = resolve.GetMediaStorage().AddItemsToMediaPool(clipListRead)

Hi, Philippe. I just tried that. Unfortunately, it didn't work. But no error messages either Thank you for looking into this though! -- It might be possible that the new API (Davinci Resolve) has some limitations - but there is not enough documentation available to tell for sure. It's a real petty because all other parts of the script are working really well -- I just can't get over that last hurdle...

hi,

i make an error with the copy paste the good one is :

for oneClip in clipListRead:
clips = resolve.GetMediaStorage().AddItemsToMediaPool(oneClip)

[Shrinivas Ramani]

Jens
In your code, printing this gives you a list with one line.

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str(clipListRead)

   ==> list with one str

["<--start of str     '/Volumes/RAID/Data/Media/TWO_CHAIRS/footage/FW_A01_2021-12-12_2002_C0127/FW_A01_2021-12-12_2002_C0127_000000.dng', '/Volumes/RAID/Data/Media/TWO_CHAIRS/footage/FW_A01_2021-12-12_2003_C0129/FW_A01_2021-12-12_2003_C0129_000000.dng', '/Volumes/RAID/Data/Media/TWO_CHAIRS/footage/FW_A01_2021-12-12_2003_C0130/FW_A01_2021-12-12_2003_C0130_000000.dng', '/Volumes/RAID/Data/Media/TWO_CHAIRS/footage/FW_A01_2021-12-12_2003_C0131/FW_A01_2021-12-12_2003_C0131_000000.dng',       end of str-->"]

You want to either format your file in a way that produces the proper list (e.g separate lines) - or split in python using comma.

Philippe, you did it!

I'll mark this as solved, even though it's still not reading in. But the path is now absolutely correct and this might be an issue with the API. I am not sure what Blackmagic needs to plug-in correctly (array, object, etc). Not sure.

Great job, Philippe!

Jens
In your code, printing this gives you a list with one line.

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str(clipListRead)

   ==> list with one str

["<--start of str     '/Volumes/RAID/Data/Media/TWO_CHAIRS/footage/FW_A01_2021-12-12_2002_C0127/FW_A01_2021-12-12_2002_C0127_000000.dng', '/Volumes/RAID/Data/Media/TWO_CHAIRS/footage/FW_A01_2021-12-12_2003_C0129/FW_A01_2021-12-12_2003_C0129_000000.dng', '/Volumes/RAID/Data/Media/TWO_CHAIRS/footage/FW_A01_2021-12-12_2003_C0130/FW_A01_2021-12-12_2003_C0130_000000.dng', '/Volumes/RAID/Data/Media/TWO_CHAIRS/footage/FW_A01_2021-12-12_2003_C0131/FW_A01_2021-12-12_2003_C0131_000000.dng',       end of str-->"]

You want to either format your file in a way that produces the proper list (e.g separate lines) - or split in python using comma.

Hi Shrinivas, the path is now correct. If I copy-paste the output path list directly into AddItemsToMediaPool(xxxx) it works. However, plugging in anything else does not work - please see below.
Is there a trick to this ?

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# Import clips from searchPhrase result
# TODO: clipList var is not working yet. Seems a API issue in DVRv15? We'll try DVRv16.
for oneClip in clipListRead:
    clips = resolve.GetMediaStorage().AddItemsToMediaPool(oneClip)  # <-- clipList goes here
    print(end='\n')  # <-- command line spacer:)
    print("oneClip: " + str(oneClip))

best regards
Jens

macOS 10.13.2 | Python 3.6.8 | DVR 15.3.1

hi jensenni,

What are you trying to make when you say 'even though it's still not reading in' ?

Can you explain your scrip ?

regards,

hi jensenni,

What are you trying to make when you say 'even though it's still not reading in' ?

Can you explain your scrip ?

regards,

What I meant is that I believe it has probably something to do with the API. Your ideas from yesterday worked but the function 'AddItemsToMediaPool(oneClip)' seems to be the issue -- it's just really hard to tell as there isn't any useful documentation about what we are supposed to plugin here. I checked the output again and it's now the correct path but for some reason, it's not working within that function... as for the idea itself, I am building a PhraseFind option for DavinciResolve for a film we are doing currently -- we have over 1200 film scenes and all of them are searchable for phrases spoken by actors -- super cool - once it's done I want to share that with the DavinciResolve community as a plugin -- well, that's the idea. I am happy to share the source code with you if you're interested...

hi,

you can also have a look to https://www.steakunderwater.com/wesuckl ... m.php?f=35 that is a good forum about programming.

regards,

Thanks for the link. The site is great!