Possible to interact with Collect Clip in Timeline?


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By dan.goyette - Last Year
I'm pretty sure the answer is "no", but maybe I missed something.

I'm trying to automate the creation of animations. The most cumbersome part is manually drag selecting the Collect Clip bar to choose a frame range. For example:



There appears to be no way to set the start/end to a given frame, other than dragging and hoping you do it right. I was hoping the API could help me either to:
  • Programmatically set the Start/End of the Collect Clip.
  • Trigger the "Add MotionPlus to Library" action on the selection.
I don't see anything promising in the API, but I wanted to ask. I'd also be very eager to hear any other approach I might take to exporting multiple clips from the Timeline.

Thanks.
By 4u2ges - Last Year
There appears to be no way to set the start/end to a given frame, other than dragging and hoping you do it right.


Not sure about API, but you still may do it with frame precision.
It's a bit tricky at first, but easy to get used to.

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By dan.goyette - Last Year
Yeah, that's what I'm currently doing to export motions. Doing it once is no big deal, but having to do this once per motion, every time I change something, gets pretty slow and tedious. I was ultimately hoping I could use the API to auto-set the start/end range of the Collect Clip track based on the currently selected clips. But it just doesn't seem like the API has much/any Timeline interaction.